Mike Zeck
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| Mike Zeck | |
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| Born | September 6, 1949 Greenville, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Artist |
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Michael J. Zeck (born September 6, 1949)[1], known professionally as Mike Zeck, is an American comic book illustrator.
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[edit] Biography
Mike Zeck was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania,[1] to Michael and Kathryn Jean Zeck.[citation needed] He attended the Ringling School of Art in 1967,[1] and after graduation worked at the Migrant Education Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[1] He began his comics career in 1974, doing illustration assignments for the text stories in Charlton Comics' animated line of comics, which led to work on their horror titles.[citation needed] During this period he lived briefly in the Derby, Connecticut, area where Charlton was headquartered, rooming with writer-artist-animator Daniel Reed.[2]
In 1977, Zeck started working for Marvel Comics by doing fill-in work on Master of Kung Fu, and has since worked on such titles as Aquaman, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Green Lantern, Captain America, G.I. Joe, Lobo, and Deathstroke, The Terminator.
He may be best known for his 1987 work on the "Kraven's Last Hunt" storyline, written by J. M. DeMatteis, in the Spider-Man titles and the 1986 Punisher miniseries written by Steven Grant, and collected as Circle Of Blood, as well as the 1984 miniseries Secret Wars. For this series, he and fellow artist Rick Leonardi designed a new black-and-white costume temporarily worn by Spider-Man, which eventually became the basis of the design of supervillain Venom.
[edit] Bibliography
Comics work includes:
[edit] DC Comics
- Action Comics #600 (1988, 1 page)
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #0, 69-70 (1994-1995)
- Big Book of Little Criminals (1996)
- Big Book of Weirdos (1995)
- Challengers of the Unknown #16, 18 (1998)
- Detective Comics #600 (1989, 1 page)
- Kingdom #2 (1999)
- Legends of the DC Universe #20-21, 80-Page Giant #1 (1998-1999)
- Superman Gallery #1 (1993, 1 page)
- Superman: The Man of Steel Gallery #1 (1995, 1 page)
- Unexpected #221 (1982)
- Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #6 (1988)
- Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #1, 18 (1985-1986)
[edit] Marvel Comics
- The Amazing Spider-Man #293-294 (1987)
- Amazing Spider-Man Annual #24 (Sandman back-up story) (1990)
- Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter #1 (1992) (sequel to "Kraven's Last Hunt")
- Captain America #224, 258-259, 261-270, 272-283, 286-289, Annual #8 (1978-1986)
- Captain America vol. 3 #50 (2002)
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser #10 (1991)
- Defenders #130 (1984)
- Epic Graphic Novel: The Punisher - Return to Big Nothing (1989)
- Fantastic Four Roast #1 (1982)
- Hulk #16 (1979)
- Logan's Run #6 (1977) (Thanos back-up story)
- Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #1-3, 6-12 (1984-1985)
- Marvel Team-Up #94 (1980)
- Master of Kung-Fu #55, 59-60, 64, 66-69, 71-102 (1977-1981)
- Ms. Marvel #22 (1979)
- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #2-14 (1983-1984)
- Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #3, 6-7, 9-14, 16, 18-20 (1985-1988)
- Power Man and Iron Fist#51-52 (1978)
- The Punisher #1-4 (1986)
- Savage Sword of Conan #14 (1976)
- Solarman #2 (1990)
- Spectacular Spider-Man #22, 42-43, 46, 118, 131-132 (1978-1987)
- Spider-Man: Redemption #1-4 (1996)
- Web of Spider-Man #6, 31-32 (1985-1987)
[edit] Image Comics
- Damned (4-issue mini-series, 1997)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Mike Zeck (Michael Zeck) at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
- ^ "Connecticut Talent". Connecticut Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070927212433/www.chs.org/comics/creators.htm.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Mike Zeck checklist
- Mike Zeck at the Comic Book DB
- Mike Zeck on Marvel.com
