Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer. His work includes the Marvels limited series, his own series titled Astro City, a four-year run on The Avengers, Thunderbolts, and Superman. His first professional work was a back-up story in Green Lantern #162 (March 1983). After writing four fill-in issues of Power Man and Iron Fist, he was given the series as his first regular assignment. In 1993, Busiek and artist Alex Ross produced the Marvels limited series. Busiek and Pat Olliffe crafted the Untold Tales of Spider-Man series beginning in September 1995. Busiek created the Thunderbolts, a group of super-villains disguised as super-heroes. In February 1998, he launched The Avengers vol. 3 with penciler George Pérez and Iron Man vol. 3 with artist Sean Chen. Busiek continued as writer of The Avengers through 2002, collaborating with artists like Alan Davis and Kieron Dwyer. In 2004, Busiek began a new Conan series for Dark Horse Comics. In December 2005, he signed a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. Busiek became the sole writer of the Superman series with issue #654 (Sept. 2006) and Carlos Pacheco became the series' artist, he also wrote a 52-issue weekly DC miniseries titled Trinity starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. Work on some of Busiek's more challenging, less mainstream projects, most notably Astro City at Image in the second half of the 1990s, was repeatedly delayed by health problems. In June 2013, Busiek relaunched his Astro City series as part of DC's Vertigo line.