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Michael Netzer

April 26, 2024

Michael Netzer (born 9 October 1955[1]) is an American-Israeli artist best known for his comic book work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics in the 1970s,[2] as well as for his online presence.[3][4][5]

Michael Netzer
Netzer at the Tel Aviv ICon Festival, Oct 2011
BornMichael Nasser[1]
(1955-10-09) 9 October 1955 (age 68)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
NationalityAmerican and Israeli
Area(s)Artist
Notable works
DC Special Series
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
World's Finest Comics
Official website

Early life edit

Michael Nasser (later Netzer) was born in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. His father was Adel Nasser a-Din, a Druze doctor of philosophy who worked most of his life in a Ford factory. His mother, Adele Ghazali, is a daughter to a Druze-Lebanese father and a Jewish-Lebanese mother who settled in New York in the 1920s.[6][7] He contracted polio at the age of eight months which partially paralyzed his left hip and leg. After two years of medical treatment, he was sent with his mother and siblings to his father's Druze hometown, Dayr Qūbil in Lebanon.[1][6] In 1967, at the age of 11, he returned to Detroit. In school, he became interested in comic book illustration and storytelling, and began developing skills as an artist.[8] He used his art for a campaign that won him election of vice-president of his senior class in Redford High School,[9] where he also gained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the JROTC program.[10]

During high school, Netzer met Greg Theakston, who introduced him to the world of professional comics art. He worked as a sign painter and graphic designer while attending Wayne State University in Michigan for two years.[2] Theakston later introduced him to Neal Adams at the Detroit Triple Fan Fair comics convention in 1974. Adams took interest in Netzer's art and invited him to join Continuity Studios.[9]

In September 1981, Netzer traveled to Lebanon to visit his father, intending to continue afterwards to Israel. When the Lebanon War broke out, he became stranded there until the fighting subsided. In August 1983, he hired a taxi that brought him to the Lebanon-Israel border, where he crossed into Israel.[11] While settling in Israel, he studied the Hebrew language and the Jewish faith at several kibbutzim. Nezter then converted to Judaism, and changed his Arabic last name Nasser to the Hebrew name Netzer. In May 1985, he moved to Ofra, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, where he currently resides. He is married to Elana Yosef and they have five children.[1]

Comics career edit

Early work edit

 
Batman by Michael Netzer and inker Josef Rubinstein from DC Special Series #1 (Sept. 1977).

In late 1975, Netzer was invited to join Arvell Jones and Keith Pollard for a drive to New York City, where the two artists shared an apartment. They offered Netzer accommodations while he tried to gain work in comics.[9][12] He joined Continuity Studios, which became his base as a freelancer. He began work producing storyboards and advertising art for the studio, while procuring his first comics assignment, a two-part back-up story in Kamandi: "Tales of the Great Disaster". He gained quick recognition as an illustrator at DC Comics and Marvel Comics, producing art for Kobra, Challengers of the Unknown, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes and Wonder Woman at DC, as well as various covers for Marvel. Other characters he became known for were the Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow and Black Canary, Batman, Black Lightning and Spider-Man. Netzer became active in efforts to form a Comics Creators Guild, that were based at Continuity.[13] By late 1977, he was scheduled to pencil the new series John Carter, Warlord of Mars for editor Marv Wolfman at Marvel. Reconsidering the direction his life and career were taking, and the general conditions of the comics industry, Netzer declined the project and decided to take a break away from drawing comic books.[9]

In November 1977, Netzer left his career in New York and hitchhiked across the United States.[14] Arriving in San Francisco, he contacted Star*Reach magazine publisher Mike Friedrich to decline a commitment he had made for the publication's first color installment. Friedrich asked Netzer to produce a story that would tell of his new-found aspirations, resulting in "The Old, New and Final Testaments", an eight-page vignette weaving socio-religious history with humanity's ambitions for the colonization of the solar system.[15] Friedrich published the story in Star*Reach #12 (1977) and wrote about his meeting with Netzer in the editorial.

For the next several years, Netzer produced sporadic comic book art for DC and Marvel, including a Batman story in DC Special Series,[16] Black Lightning in World's Finest Comics, Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up and numerous covers for Marvel. He was one of several artists to draw the comics adaptation of Xanadu in Marvel Super Special #17 (Summer 1980).[17] During this period, he traveled through the United States and promoted the idea of a new political hierarchy through the comic book medium. His colleagues described this activity as messianic and expressed concerns about his behavior.[18][19][20] In a 1980 interview with Whizzard Magazine, editor Marty Klug noted: "Since 1977 his work, most notably in Star*Reach, has often professed a creative politico-religious theme derived from diverse sources ranging from superhero adventure to Biblical prophecy. Nasser's speculations—frequently intriguing, often controversial and, at times, somewhat outrageous—espouse a refreshing optimism rarely found in such works. Currently, he is assembling these perspectives in book form and may well be one of the first comic illustrators to branch off in such a unique direction."[8]

Israel comics edit

In 1984–1988, he contributed covers, accompanying illustrations and a comic strip, Milk and Honey, to Counterpoint, an Israeli English-language publication of Gush Emunim edited by Rachelle Katsman and Yisrael Medad.[21]

In 1987, he produced Israel's first Super Hero color comic book, with partners Jonathan Duitch and Yossi Halpern, "Uri-On", (אורי-און) under their Israel Comics imprint.[22][23] This came at a time of a surge in comics activity in the country and was featured in an Israel Museum Comics Exhibit alongside the work of his national peers, Dudu Geva, Michel Kichka, Uri Fink and others. Michael's design of the Menorah symbol for Uri-On was featured in a later Israel Museum exhibit highlighting various Menorah designs through the ages. Netzer's prominence as a former American comic book artist and controversial choice of residence in the occupied West Bank, provided a platform for the artist to appear on local television talk shows, receive varied media coverage and give lectures on the comic book medium as a tool for advancing a peaceful solution to the Arab–Israeli conflict.[6]

Return to U.S. comics edit

 
From "12 Parts" Hot Stuff #6 (1978), depicting the sharp departure from the artist's early career influences

In 1991, Netzer returned to New York and Continuity Comics, where he produced art for several issues of Megalith. He and Neal Adams entered into a dispute over intellectual property rights to Ms. Mystic, a character they had worked on jointly in 1977, which Adams had published under the Pacific Comics and Continuity Comics imprints, leading to a lawsuit against Adams in New York Federal Court in 1993.[24] The case was dismissed in 1995, citing the statute of limitations.[25][26]

Netzer left Continuity and produced a series of comic book projects during this period, including Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Annual #2,[27] Detective Comics,[28] The Huntress,[29] Babylon 5, Team Titans,[30] and Green Arrow[31] for DC Comics, and Neil Gaiman's Lady Justice for Tekno Comix. His art in this period demonstrated a notable shift into a darker and moodier art style, such as in The Huntress mini-series, which merged his high-contrast style in the 1978 Hot Stuff[32] with the dark noir art of the popular Frank Miller's Sin City series.[33] In his Sin City: The Big Fat Kill #1 (1994) letter column, Miller criticized Netzer, along with artists Jim Lee and Tim Sale, who also produced dark noir art in that period, for drawing influence from Sin City. Miller also criticized Netzer's lawsuit against Adams for Ms. Mystic in the same letter column.[34] In 2011, Netzer responded to Miller at CBR's Comics Should Be Good, saying he'd worked in a similar style before Miller became known for it. He added that no artist develops without visible influences, and that creators who preceded Miller were not known to criticize artists whom they inspired.[35]

In 1994 Netzer returned to Israel. In 1998, he teamed up with Sofia Fedorov to establish a visual media production studio called Netzart Fedorov Media which allowed Netzer to develop his skills in computer-generated illustration, advertising and web design.

In 2010, Netzer returned to mainstream comics, producing art for Kevin Smith's Green Hornet from Dynamite Entertainment,[36][37] along with illustrating a chapter of Erich Origen and Gan Golan's The Adventures of Unemployed Man from Little, Brown, publishers of the satire Goodnight Bush by the same writers.[38] Netzer also returned to producing collector art commissions, including a series of classic cover recreations with artist Gene Colan, represented by writer/agent Clifford Meth.[39][40] In 2011, he produced three covers for Kfir from Israeli Zanzuria Comics.[41]

Web activism edit

A 40-day retreat to the Dead Sea resort of Ein Gedi in February 2003 inspired Netzer to go back to his early spiritual themes and activism.[6] In January 2004, Netzer launched his first web site, "The New Comic Book of Life", outlining his theories on superhero mythology and the role it plays in cultural evolution. On the site, Netzer revealed unpublished material espousing this manifesto from 1977 to 1981, which had never seen publication. He also apologized to colleague Neal Adams for his lawsuit against him in the previous decade,[42] though in 2018 Netzer renewed his assertion that he created the character of Ms. Mystic, leading to a great deal of public acrimony between the two. In November 2004, he launched a second web site, "The Comic Book Creator's Party", calling on comics creators to form a political union for participating in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and quoting notable comics creators' references to the socio-political climate in America and abroad.[43] Netzer has since launched several other web sites, including "The Comic Book Creators' Guild", "Growing Earth Consortium" and "Michael Netzer Online", the site-complex portal.

While producing no mainstream comics art from the mid-1990s until 2010, Netzer maintained a web presence,[44] speaking on comics community issues,[45] including a campaign to bolster comic fandom's support for J'onn J'onzz The Martian Manhunter,[46] facing a rumored demise in DC Comics Final Crisis miniseries.[47][48][49] In early 2009, Netzer founded and launched Facebook Comic Con.[50][51]

Following his conviction that art should contribute towards the betterment of society,[3] Netzer joined Comics For All in May 2010, a collective of Israeli comics artists that aims to promote the medium as a cultural and educational tool for aiding underprivileged children.[52] The organization operates under the auspices of comic book retailer chain Comics N' Vegetables, and contributed to the retailer winning the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award in 2011.[53][54][55] Netzer participates in various activities on a pro bono basis.[56]

Save the Comics campaign edit

In early 2011 Netzer launched a campaign, Save the Comics, to bring public attention to the undercurrents of a decades-long sales slump for printed comic books.[57][58][59] The initiative came on the heels of his participation in an industry-wide debate on a revolution in creator-owned properties.[60][61][62]

On 10 February 2011, Netzer lodged an online complaint at the Federal Trade Commission web site against DC Comics and Marvel Comics calling for industry leaders to turn their attention back to the business of comic book publishing.[63][64]

In June 2011, Netzer responded to the controversial story in Action Comics #900, in which Superman is compelled to renounce his American citizenship after participating in an Iranian anti-government demonstration.[65][66] He produced a two-page short satire, wherein Superman returns to Tehran with Batman and Wonder Woman, who all participate in an anti-American demonstration.[67] An image of the three heroes burning American and Western Allies flags, drew sharp criticism from the Bleeding Cool audience.[68] Netzer responded by burning the original art of the controversial image, and filming a video clip of it, to demonstrate the value of the satire.[69][70]

In May 2013, Netzer led a campaign on behalf of comics writer Don McGregor when Dynamite Entertainment promoted the revival of Lady Rawhide, created by McGregor and Mike Mayhew.[71] Dynamite publisher Nick Barrucci responded in dismissal of McGregor's publicly aired frustration at hearing about his creation being revived in press releases, and that the creators' credits were omitted from the announcements.[72][73] Netzer's campaign at Bleeding Cool,[74] The Beat,[73] Facebook[75] and his own site[76] led the publisher to appear at Netzer's Facebook profile and apologize to McGregor.[75][77][78][79] The campaign received some criticism for its intensity,[78] but was also noted by others for helping bring the issue of creators' rights and their treatment by publishers to the forefront of industry dialogue.[80][81]

Published works edit

DC Comics edit

Marvel Comics edit

Other publishers edit

Note: From 1987 (Uri-On #1), he is credited as Michael Netzer; previously, he was credited with his birth name, Michael Nasser.

Covers edit

Netzer has also provided the art for these covers:

References edit

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Bibliography edit

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michael Netzer.
  • Michael Netzer Online Portal, official homepage (archived)
  • at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
  • "DC Profiles #14" at the Grand Comics Database
  • Netzart Fedorov Media, company with which Netzer is involved
  • Marty Klug, , Wizzard Magazine, Fall 1980 (archived)
  • Daniel Best, Interview, Adelaide Comics and Books, 17 July 2004
  • Brian Doherty, But What Has He Done for the Purple Skins?, Reason Magazine, 11 January 2005
  • Rik Offenberger, at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 August 2007), Silver Bullet Comic Books, 4 May 2005
  • Facebook Comic Con Gala Premiere keynote video address on YouTube
  • at Netzer's web site (archived).

April 26, 2024
michael, netzer, born, october, 1955, american, israeli, artist, best, known, comic, book, work, comics, marvel, comics, 1970s, well, online, presence, netzer, aviv, icon, festival, 2011bornmichael, nasser, 1955, october, 1955, detroit, michigan, nationalityam. Michael Netzer born 9 October 1955 1 is an American Israeli artist best known for his comic book work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics in the 1970s 2 as well as for his online presence 3 4 5 Michael NetzerNetzer at the Tel Aviv ICon Festival Oct 2011BornMichael Nasser 1 1955 10 09 9 October 1955 age 68 Detroit Michigan U S NationalityAmerican and IsraeliArea s ArtistNotable worksDC Special SeriesSuperboy and the Legion of Super HeroesWorld s Finest ComicsOfficial website Contents 1 Early life 2 Comics career 2 1 Early work 2 2 Israel comics 2 3 Return to U S comics 3 Web activism 3 1 Save the Comics campaign 4 Published works 4 1 DC Comics 4 2 Marvel Comics 4 3 Other publishers 4 4 Covers 5 References 5 1 Bibliography 6 External linksEarly life editMichael Nasser later Netzer was born in Detroit Michigan U S His father was Adel Nasser a Din a Druze doctor of philosophy who worked most of his life in a Ford factory His mother Adele Ghazali is a daughter to a Druze Lebanese father and a Jewish Lebanese mother who settled in New York in the 1920s 6 7 He contracted polio at the age of eight months which partially paralyzed his left hip and leg After two years of medical treatment he was sent with his mother and siblings to his father s Druze hometown Dayr Qubil in Lebanon 1 6 In 1967 at the age of 11 he returned to Detroit In school he became interested in comic book illustration and storytelling and began developing skills as an artist 8 He used his art for a campaign that won him election of vice president of his senior class in Redford High School 9 where he also gained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the JROTC program 10 During high school Netzer met Greg Theakston who introduced him to the world of professional comics art He worked as a sign painter and graphic designer while attending Wayne State University in Michigan for two years 2 Theakston later introduced him to Neal Adams at the Detroit Triple Fan Fair comics convention in 1974 Adams took interest in Netzer s art and invited him to join Continuity Studios 9 In September 1981 Netzer traveled to Lebanon to visit his father intending to continue afterwards to Israel When the Lebanon War broke out he became stranded there until the fighting subsided In August 1983 he hired a taxi that brought him to the Lebanon Israel border where he crossed into Israel 11 While settling in Israel he studied the Hebrew language and the Jewish faith at several kibbutzim Nezter then converted to Judaism and changed his Arabic last name Nasser to the Hebrew name Netzer In May 1985 he moved to Ofra an Israeli settlement in the West Bank where he currently resides He is married to Elana Yosef and they have five children 1 Comics career editEarly work edit nbsp Batman by Michael Netzer and inker Josef Rubinstein from DC Special Series 1 Sept 1977 In late 1975 Netzer was invited to join Arvell Jones and Keith Pollard for a drive to New York City where the two artists shared an apartment They offered Netzer accommodations while he tried to gain work in comics 9 12 He joined Continuity Studios which became his base as a freelancer He began work producing storyboards and advertising art for the studio while procuring his first comics assignment a two part back up story in Kamandi Tales of the Great Disaster He gained quick recognition as an illustrator at DC Comics and Marvel Comics producing art for Kobra Challengers of the Unknown Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes and Wonder Woman at DC as well as various covers for Marvel Other characters he became known for were the Martian Manhunter Green Arrow and Black Canary Batman Black Lightning and Spider Man Netzer became active in efforts to form a Comics Creators Guild that were based at Continuity 13 By late 1977 he was scheduled to pencil the new series John Carter Warlord of Mars for editor Marv Wolfman at Marvel Reconsidering the direction his life and career were taking and the general conditions of the comics industry Netzer declined the project and decided to take a break away from drawing comic books 9 In November 1977 Netzer left his career in New York and hitchhiked across the United States 14 Arriving in San Francisco he contacted Star Reach magazine publisher Mike Friedrich to decline a commitment he had made for the publication s first color installment Friedrich asked Netzer to produce a story that would tell of his new found aspirations resulting in The Old New and Final Testaments an eight page vignette weaving socio religious history with humanity s ambitions for the colonization of the solar system 15 Friedrich published the story in Star Reach 12 1977 and wrote about his meeting with Netzer in the editorial For the next several years Netzer produced sporadic comic book art for DC and Marvel including a Batman story in DC Special Series 16 Black Lightning in World s Finest Comics Spider Man in Marvel Team Up and numerous covers for Marvel He was one of several artists to draw the comics adaptation of Xanadu in Marvel Super Special 17 Summer 1980 17 During this period he traveled through the United States and promoted the idea of a new political hierarchy through the comic book medium His colleagues described this activity as messianic and expressed concerns about his behavior 18 19 20 In a 1980 interview with Whizzard Magazine editor Marty Klug noted Since 1977 his work most notably in Star Reach has often professed a creative politico religious theme derived from diverse sources ranging from superhero adventure to Biblical prophecy Nasser s speculations frequently intriguing often controversial and at times somewhat outrageous espouse a refreshing optimism rarely found in such works Currently he is assembling these perspectives in book form and may well be one of the first comic illustrators to branch off in such a unique direction 8 Israel comics edit In 1984 1988 he contributed covers accompanying illustrations and a comic strip Milk and Honey to Counterpoint an Israeli English language publication of Gush Emunim edited by Rachelle Katsman and Yisrael Medad 21 In 1987 he produced Israel s first Super Hero color comic book with partners Jonathan Duitch and Yossi Halpern Uri On אורי און under their Israel Comics imprint 22 23 This came at a time of a surge in comics activity in the country and was featured in an Israel Museum Comics Exhibit alongside the work of his national peers Dudu Geva Michel Kichka Uri Fink and others Michael s design of the Menorah symbol for Uri On was featured in a later Israel Museum exhibit highlighting various Menorah designs through the ages Netzer s prominence as a former American comic book artist and controversial choice of residence in the occupied West Bank provided a platform for the artist to appear on local television talk shows receive varied media coverage and give lectures on the comic book medium as a tool for advancing a peaceful solution to the Arab Israeli conflict 6 Return to U S comics edit nbsp From 12 Parts Hot Stuff 6 1978 depicting the sharp departure from the artist s early career influencesIn 1991 Netzer returned to New York and Continuity Comics where he produced art for several issues of Megalith He and Neal Adams entered into a dispute over intellectual property rights to Ms Mystic a character they had worked on jointly in 1977 which Adams had published under the Pacific Comics and Continuity Comics imprints leading to a lawsuit against Adams in New York Federal Court in 1993 24 The case was dismissed in 1995 citing the statute of limitations 25 26 Netzer left Continuity and produced a series of comic book projects during this period including Batman Legends of the Dark Knight Annual 2 27 Detective Comics 28 The Huntress 29 Babylon 5 Team Titans 30 and Green Arrow 31 for DC Comics and Neil Gaiman s Lady Justice for Tekno Comix His art in this period demonstrated a notable shift into a darker and moodier art style such as in The Huntress mini series which merged his high contrast style in the 1978 Hot Stuff 32 with the dark noir art of the popular Frank Miller s Sin City series 33 In his Sin City The Big Fat Kill 1 1994 letter column Miller criticized Netzer along with artists Jim Lee and Tim Sale who also produced dark noir art in that period for drawing influence from Sin City Miller also criticized Netzer s lawsuit against Adams for Ms Mystic in the same letter column 34 In 2011 Netzer responded to Miller at CBR s Comics Should Be Good saying he d worked in a similar style before Miller became known for it He added that no artist develops without visible influences and that creators who preceded Miller were not known to criticize artists whom they inspired 35 In 1994 Netzer returned to Israel In 1998 he teamed up with Sofia Fedorov to establish a visual media production studio called Netzart Fedorov Media which allowed Netzer to develop his skills in computer generated illustration advertising and web design In 2010 Netzer returned to mainstream comics producing art for Kevin Smith s Green Hornet from Dynamite Entertainment 36 37 along with illustrating a chapter of Erich Origen and Gan Golan s The Adventures of Unemployed Man from Little Brown publishers of the satire Goodnight Bush by the same writers 38 Netzer also returned to producing collector art commissions including a series of classic cover recreations with artist Gene Colan represented by writer agent Clifford Meth 39 40 In 2011 he produced three covers for Kfir from Israeli Zanzuria Comics 41 Web activism editA 40 day retreat to the Dead Sea resort of Ein Gedi in February 2003 inspired Netzer to go back to his early spiritual themes and activism 6 In January 2004 Netzer launched his first web site The New Comic Book of Life outlining his theories on superhero mythology and the role it plays in cultural evolution On the site Netzer revealed unpublished material espousing this manifesto from 1977 to 1981 which had never seen publication He also apologized to colleague Neal Adams for his lawsuit against him in the previous decade 42 though in 2018 Netzer renewed his assertion that he created the character of Ms Mystic leading to a great deal of public acrimony between the two In November 2004 he launched a second web site The Comic Book Creator s Party calling on comics creators to form a political union for participating in the 2008 U S presidential election and quoting notable comics creators references to the socio political climate in America and abroad 43 Netzer has since launched several other web sites including The Comic Book Creators Guild Growing Earth Consortium and Michael Netzer Online the site complex portal While producing no mainstream comics art from the mid 1990s until 2010 Netzer maintained a web presence 44 speaking on comics community issues 45 including a campaign to bolster comic fandom s support for J onn J onzz The Martian Manhunter 46 facing a rumored demise in DC Comics Final Crisis miniseries 47 48 49 In early 2009 Netzer founded and launched Facebook Comic Con 50 51 Following his conviction that art should contribute towards the betterment of society 3 Netzer joined Comics For All in May 2010 a collective of Israeli comics artists that aims to promote the medium as a cultural and educational tool for aiding underprivileged children 52 The organization operates under the auspices of comic book retailer chain Comics N Vegetables and contributed to the retailer winning the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award in 2011 53 54 55 Netzer participates in various activities on a pro bono basis 56 Save the Comics campaign edit In early 2011 Netzer launched a campaign Save the Comics to bring public attention to the undercurrents of a decades long sales slump for printed comic books 57 58 59 The initiative came on the heels of his participation in an industry wide debate on a revolution in creator owned properties 60 61 62 On 10 February 2011 Netzer lodged an online complaint at the Federal Trade Commission web site against DC Comics and Marvel Comics calling for industry leaders to turn their attention back to the business of comic book publishing 63 64 In June 2011 Netzer responded to the controversial story in Action Comics 900 in which Superman is compelled to renounce his American citizenship after participating in an Iranian anti government demonstration 65 66 He produced a two page short satire wherein Superman returns to Tehran with Batman and Wonder Woman who all participate in an anti American demonstration 67 An image of the three heroes burning American and Western Allies flags drew sharp criticism from the Bleeding Cool audience 68 Netzer responded by burning the original art of the controversial image and filming a video clip of it to demonstrate the value of the satire 69 70 In May 2013 Netzer led a campaign on behalf of comics writer Don McGregor when Dynamite Entertainment promoted the revival of Lady Rawhide created by McGregor and Mike Mayhew 71 Dynamite publisher Nick Barrucci responded in dismissal of McGregor s publicly aired frustration at hearing about his creation being revived in press releases and that the creators credits were omitted from the announcements 72 73 Netzer s campaign at Bleeding Cool 74 The Beat 73 Facebook 75 and his own site 76 led the publisher to appear at Netzer s Facebook profile and apologize to McGregor 75 77 78 79 The campaign received some criticism for its intensity 78 but was also noted by others for helping bring the issue of creators rights and their treatment by publishers to the forefront of industry dialogue 80 81 Published works editDC Comics edit Adventure Comics 449 451 Manhunter from Mars with Dennis O Neil inks by Terry Austin 1977 The Flash 466 with Cary Bates inks by Vince Colletta 1979 Armageddon The Alien Agenda 2 with Jonathan Peterson inks by Josef Rubinstein 1991 Armageddon Inferno 1 2 4 1992 Babylon 5 1 2 4 with J Michael Straczynski inks by Rob Leigh 1994 Batman Green Arrow The Poison Tomorrow one shot with Dennis O Neil 1992 Batman Legends of the Dark Knight Annual 2 with Dennis O Neil inks by Luke McDonnell 1993 Challengers of the Unknown 81 82 with Gerry Conway inks by Bob Wiacek and Josef Rubinstein 1977 DC Special Series 1 Batman with Martin Pasko 1977 15 with David V Reed in both cases inks by Josef Rubinstein 1978 11 Doctor Fate with Paul Levitz and Joe Staton 1978 Detective Comics 654 655 657 658 with Chuck Dixon inks by Scott Hanna and Luke McDonnell 1992 1993 Ghosts 97 1981 Green Arrow 89 96 with Kevin Dooley and Chuck Dixon inks by Rob Leigh and Jim Aparo 1994 1995 House of Mystery 276 1980 Isis 2 with Steve Skeates inks by Vince Colletta 1976 1977 The Huntress 1 4 miniseries with Chuck Dixon 1994 Jonah Hex and Other Western Tales 3 1980 Kamandi 45 46 Tales of the Great Disaster inks by Josef Rubinstein 1976 Kobra 6 7 with Martin Pasko inks by Josef Rubinstein 1977 Men of War 15 The Sentry two pages inks by Bob Smith 1979 Secrets of Haunted House 24 with Laurie S Sutton inks by Vince Colletta 1980 Star Hunters 3 with David Michelinie inks by Bob Layton 1978 Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes 222 225 226 230 231 233 236 with Jim Shooter and Paul Levitz inks by Bob Layton Bob Wiacek Jack Abel and Josef Rubinstein 1976 77 Team Titans 1 Nightrider with Marv Wolfman inks by George Perez 1992 Time Warp 4 1980 Wonder Woman 232 with Alan Brennert and Martin Pasko inks by Vince Colletta 1977 World s Finest Comics 244 246 Green Arrow and Black Canary with Tony Isabella and Jack C Harris inks by Terry Austin 1977 259 260 Black Lightning with Dennis O Neil inks by Vince Colletta 1979 Marvel Comics edit Howard the Duck 16 with Steve Gerber inks by Terry Austin 1976 Marvel Comics Super Special 17 with J M DeMatteis and other artists 1980 Marvel Preview 7 1976 Marvel Spotlight 33 with David Anthony Kraft Rich Buckler and Arvell Jones inks by Klaus Janson Marvel 1977 Marvel Tales 100 with Scott Edelman inks by Terry Austin 1979 Marvel Team Up 89 with Chris Claremont inks by Josef Rubinstein 1980 Marvel Two In One 70 with Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio inks by Gene Day 1980 Savage Sword of Conan 20 29 70 71 pinups only 1977 81 Star Trek 7 with Tom DeFalco inks by Klaus Janson 1980 The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 28 with Lao Tzu pinup only 1976 Web of Spider Man Annual 3 with Roger Stern inks by Josef Rubinstein 1987 Other publishers edit 12 Parts in Hot Stuff 6 82 Sal Quartuccio Productions 1978 1984 5 with Len Wein inks by Alfredo Alcala Warren Publishing 1979 Civil Wardrobe with Rich Johnston Brain Scan Studios 2006 Ms Mystic 1 with Neal Adams Pacific Comics 1982 Neil Gaiman s Wheel of Worlds 0 with C J Henderson Tekno Comix 1995 Neil Gaiman s Lady Justice 1 2 with C J Henderson inks by Rick Magyar Tekno 1995 Megalith 5 7 with Peter Stone Continuity Comics 1991 Star Reach 12 Star Reach Productions 1978 Uri On 1 4 Israel Comics 1987 1988 War Dancer 5 with Jim Shooter inks by Brad Vancata Defiant Comics 1994 Dose 2 Bankshot Comics 2008 Kevin Smith s Green Hornet Annual 1 with Phil Hester inks by Josef Rubinstein Dynamite Entertainment 2010 The Adventures of Unemployed Man graphic novel with Origen and Golan inks by Josef Rubinstein Little Brown 2010 Rich Johnston s ScienTHORlogy one shot satire with Rich Johnston Boom Studios 2012 Jewish Comix Anthology short story with Clifford Meth Alternate History Comics 2014 Note From 1987 Uri On 1 he is credited as Michael Netzer previously he was credited with his birth name Michael Nasser Covers edit Netzer has also provided the art for these covers Adventures on the Planet of the Apes 7 Marvel 1976 Tomb of Darkness 22 Marvel 1976 Chamber of Chills 24 inks Marvel 1976 Kobra 6 7 DC 1977 Challengers of the Unknown 81 82 DC 1977 Wonder Woman 231 232 DC 1977 Shazam 35 DC 1978 The Spectacular Spider Man 37 Marvel 1979 Defenders 87 89 Marvel 1980 Star Trek 7 Marvel 1980 Marvel Team Up 101 Marvel 1980 The Amazing Spider Man 207 228 Marvel 1980 1982 Uri On 1 4 Israel Comics 1987 1988 Armageddon Inferno 1 4 DC 1992 The Shadow Strikes 30 DC 1992 Batman 480 DC 1992 The Comet 9 12 14 18 DC 1992 Batman Green Arrow The Poison Tomorrow DC 1992 Robin III Cry of the Huntress 3 DC 1993 Batman Legends of the Dark Knight Annual 2 DC 1993 The Huntress 1 4 DC 1994 Babylon 5 2 4 DC 1994 Kevin Smith s Green Hornet 3 4 alternate covers Dynamite 2010 Kevin Smith s Green Hornet Annual 1 Dynamite 2010 Avatar of the Futurians 2 David Miller Studios 2010 Kfir 1 3 Zanzuria 2011 WWE Superstars 3 Super Genius Papercutz 2013 References edit a b c d Dagan Shuki 21 March 2005 Rooted Settler Family Visit in Beirut Shofar News Archived from the original on 21 July 2011 Retrieved 28 November 2011 a b Michael Netzer at Lambiek Lambiek Comiclopedia Retrieved 28 November 2011 a b Young Thom 5 October 2005 Being and Time An Interview with Michael Netzer Comics Bulletin Archived from the original on 22 May 2011 Retrieved 28 November 2011 McMillan Graeme 21 June 2006 Netzer 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Netzer to rework the plot into this seventeen page showdown between Batman and Kobra a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a first2 has generic name help CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Friedt Stephan July 2016 Marvel at the Movies The House of Ideas Hollywood Adaptations of the 1970s and 1980s Back Issue 89 Raleigh North Carolina TwoMorrows Publishing 64 The interior art was a group effort with over a dozen people credited with different aspects of the artwork including layouts by Rich Buckler and Jimmy Janes and finished pencils by Michael Nasser Netzer Brent Anderson Joe Brozowski Al Milgrom and Bill Sienkiewicz Groth Gary 1982 Neal Adams interview The Comics Journal 72 Fantagraphics Books 68 69 Retrieved 1 December 2011 Marzan Jose Jr 2004 Joe Rubinstein interview Adelaide Comics and Books Archived from the original on 19 December 2014 Retrieved 15 June 2015 Gonzalez Guy LeCharles June 2006 Link Defending Ronee Loudpoet Archived from the 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Dennis O Neil and artist Michael Netzer decided to marry off Commissioner Gordon to his longtime love Sarah Essen Manning 1990s in Dougall p 198 Manning 1990s in Dougall p 208 Helena Bertinelli the Huntress returned to star in her own title in this four issue series written by Chuck Dixon and drawn in a moody shadowy style by artist Michael Netzer Manning Matthew K Dolan Hannah ed 2010 1990s DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 254 ISBN 978 0 7566 6742 9 The team started with a bang offering five first issues that each contained a different origin story for every team member Marv Wolfman supplied the scripts for each issue while the art was handled by Kevin Maguire Gabriel Morrissette Adam Hughes Michael Netzer Kerry Gammill and Phil Jimenez a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a first2 has generic name help CS1 maint multiple names authors list link Manning 1990s in Dolan p 271 Writer Chuck Dixon and artists 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