Danny Fingeroth (b. 1953)

Biography:

Danny Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel.

Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1976 as an assistant to Larry Lieber at Marvel. At Marvel in the 1980s, he edited the Spider-Man titles as well as Marvel Team-Up and Ka-Zar. Fingeroth was the group editor of the Spider-Man titles from 1991 to 1995, including the first part of the clone saga.

As a writer, Fingeroth worked on Darkhawk, writing all 50 issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on Dazzler, wrote the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the Howard the Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including Avengers, Daredevil, Iron Man and What If?, as well as the Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel.

Editor of Write Now! (2002 series) for Twomorrows Publishing, a magazine about the craft of comics writing that he created, which ran for 20 issues from 2003 to 2009. Writer of books including "A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee" (2019; St. Martins Press/Macmillan)

Name:

  • Danny Fingeroth
  • Type: Common Alternative Name
    Given name: Danny Family name: Fingeroth

Other Names:

  1. Fingeroth Type: Common Alternative Name
    Family name: Fingeroth
  2. Dan Fingeroth Type: Common Alternative Name
    Given name: Dan Family name: Fingeroth
  3. Daniel Fingeroth Type: Name at Birth
    Given name: Daniel Family name: Daniel

Signatures:

  1. Danny
  2. Danny [generic]
  3. Danny Fingeroth [generic]
  4. Danny Fingeroth
  5. Fingeroth [generic]


Awards:

  1. 2022: Inkpot Award - [no name]

Art Influences:

Danny Fingeroth (b. 1953) stated influences by:
  1. Hank Levy
  2. Mickey Mantle
  3. Orson Welles
  4. SUNY Binghamton Cinema Department
  5. Tom DeFalco (b. 1950)
  6. Steve Ditko (b. 1927)
  7. Jack Kirby (b. 1917)
  8. Stan Lee (b. 1922)
  9. Larry Lieber (b. 1931)
  10. Harvey Pekar (b. 1939)
  11. Jim Shooter (b. 1951)
  12. Louise Simonson (b. 1946)
Influences by Danny Fingeroth (b. 1953) were stated by:
  1. Eric Fein (b. ????)
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