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Nick Spencer
Spencer at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 9, 2010.
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
Morning Glories
Thief of Thieves
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
Iron Man 2.0
Secret Avengers
Superior Foes of Spider-Man

Nick Spencer is a comic book writer and former politician. As a comic book writer, he is known for his creator-owned titles at Image Comics (Morning Glories, Thief of Thieves, Bedlam), his work at DC Comics (Action Comics, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents), and for his current work at Marvel Comics (Secret Avengers, Superior Foes of Spider-Man, Avengers World, Ant-Man).

Career

While in college, Spencer wrote three pitches to Marvel Comics soon after the Marvel Knights imprint launched in 1998. According to Spencer, "Joe [Quesada] didn’t like the first two but the third one was a Black Cat pitch that was a Jackie Brown kind of Tarantino-esque thing. He said he liked that one but they weren’t going to do anything with anybody new at the time." After another pitch was rejected, this time by Oni Press, Spencer went on to work in politics. He twice ran for the Cincinnati City Council as a candidate of the progressive Charter Party. Spencer also worked for a Democrat politician.[1] He later moved to New York City and successfully pitched Existence 2.0 to Jim Valentino of Image Comics. The first issue was released in July 2009.[2] A second miniseries, Existence 3.0, followed in November.[3] In 2010, Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to Existence 2.0, and a film is in development through Platinum Dunes with Miles Millar and Alfred Gough to adapt and executive produce.[4] Spencer also wrote Forgetless and Shuddertown at Image.[5] An A.V. Club review of Shuddertown stated that Spencer "has become one of the finest practitioners" of crime noir in comics.[6]

Spencer's first ongoing series, Morning Glories, was released in August 2010.[5] He has written a seven-part Jimmy Olsen co-feature for DC Comics beginning in September's Action Comics #893 which will conclude in a one-shot[7] to be released March 30, 2011 and is writing the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents monthly debuting in November 2010.[5] He was scheduled to take over as the writer of Supergirl in January 2011 with issue #60,[8] but DC announced soon after that he will only be co-scripting one issue.[9] Spencer is writing Iron Man 2.0, a new War Machine ongoing for Marvel Comics which debuted in February 2011.[10] Spencer will also be taking over writing duties on Secret Avengers from Ed Brubaker as of #13.[11] It was announced at the Emerald City Comic Con that Spencer has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, although he will be allowed to continue writing his existing titles at both DC and Image.[12]

Spencer is one of three writers that worked on "Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn", a relaunch of Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel line, along with Jonathan Hickman and Brian Michael Bendis. Spencer wrote Ultimate Comics X-Men.[13]

Bibliography

Image Comics

  • Existence 2.0/3.0 #1-3, #1-4 (with Joe Eisma, 2009-2010) collected as Existence 2.0/3.0 (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6299-2)
  • Forgetless #1-5 (with Scott Forbes, Jorge Coelho and Marley Zarcone, 2009–2010) collected as Forgetless (tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6361-1)
  • Shuddertown #1-4 (with Adam Geen[disambiguation needed], 2010) collected as Shuddertown (hc, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6943-1)
  • Fractured Fables: Cinderella (with Rodin Esquejo, 2010) collected in Fractured Fables (hc, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6269-0; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6496-0)
  • Morning Glories (with Joe Eisma, 2010–present) collected as:
    • For a Better Future (collects #1–6, tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-307-7)
    • All Will Be Free (collects #7-12, tpb, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-407-3)
    • P.E. (collects #13-19, tpb, 240 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-60706-558-4)
    • Truants (collects #20–25, tpb, 216 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-727-7)
    • Tests (collects #26–29, tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-774-9)
    • Demerits (collects #30–34, tpb, 144 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-774-9)
    • Honors (collects #35–38, tpb, 124 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6070-6943-1)
  • Infinite Vacation #1-5 (with Christian Ward, 2011–2013) collected as Infinite Vacation (hc, 191 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6721-8)
  • Thief of Thieves (with Robert Kirkman and Shawn Martinbrough, 2012) collected as:
    • I Quit (collects #1-7, 152 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6592-4)
  • Bedlam (with Riley Rossmo and Ryan Browne, 2012–present) collected as:
    • Volume 1 (collects #1–6, tpb, 184 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6735-8)
    • Volume 2 (collects #7–11, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6070-6846-X)

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

  • Iron Man 2.0 (February 2011-December 2011)
  • Avengers
    • Secret Avengers vol. 1 (April 2011-July 2011)
      • Fear Itself (tpb, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5178-8) collects:
        • "Untitled" (with Scott Eaton, in #12.1, 2011)
        • "Fear Itself" (with Scot Eaton, in #13-15, 2011)
    • Secret Avengers vol. 2 (February 2013-February 2014)
      • Volume 1: Reverie (tpb, 120 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6688-2) collects:
        • "NYSE" (with Luke Ross, in Marvel NOW! Point One, 2012)
        • "Budapest" (with Luke Ross, in #1, 2013)
        • "Bagalia" (with Luke Ross, in #2, 2013)
        • "Arlington" (with Luke Ross, in #3, 2013)
        • "Tehran" (with Luke Ross, in #4, 2013)
        • "Barbuda" (with Luke Ross, in #5, 2013)
      • Volume 2: Iliad (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6689-0) collects:
        • "Iliad" (with Butch Guice, Steve Epting and Brian Thies, in #6-7, 2013)
        • "The Cathedral" (with Luke Ross, in #8, 2013)
        • "Lexington" (with Butch Guice, in #9, 2013)
        • "Infinity" (written by Ed Brisson and drawn by Luke Ross, in #10-11, 2013)
      • Volume 3: How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird (tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8482-1) collects:
        • "How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird" (with Ales Kot, Butch Guice and Luke Ross, in #12-16, 2013-2014)
    • Avengers vol. 5 (May 2013-August 2013)
      • Volume 3: Prelude to Infinity (hc, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6825-7)
        • "Evolve" (with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato, in #12, 2013)
        • "Strong" (with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato, in #13, 2013)
        • "The Signal" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #14, 2013)
        • "Sent and Received" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #15, 2013)
        • "To The End" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #16, 2013)
        • "... To the Light" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, Marco Rudy and Marco Checchetto, in #17, 2013)
    • Avengers World (with Jonathan Hickman, Stefano Caselli, Marco Checchetto, Raffaele Ienco and Frank Barbiere, January 2014–December 2014)
      • Volume 1: A.I.M.PIRE (collects #1-5, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8981-5)
      • Volume 2: Ascension (collects #6-9, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-9094-5)
      • Volume 3: Next World (collects #10-16, tpb, 160 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9251-4)
  • Ultimate Comics: Fallout #2-6 (with Lee Garbett, Eric Nguyen, Clayton Crain and Luke Ross, 2011) collected as Ultimate Comics: Fallout (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5912-6; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5913-4)
  • Ultimate Comics: X-Men (with Paco Medina and Carlo Barberi, 2011-2012)
    • Volume 1 (collects #1-6, tpb, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4102-2)
    • Volume 2 (collects #7-12, tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6134-1)
  • Spider-Man
    • Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1-3 (with Emma Rios, 2011) collected in Spider-Man: Spider-Island Companion (tpb, 360 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6229-1)
    • Superior Foes of Spider-Man (with Steve Lieber, Rich Ellis and other artists, July 2013–November 2014)
      • Getting the Band Back Together (collects #1-6, tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8494-5)
      • The Crime of the Century (collects #7-12, tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8495-3)
      • Game Over (collects #13-17, tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9170-4)
  • Ant-Man
  • Sam Wilson, Captain America #1-?? (with Daniel Acuña, October 2015-??)

Notes

  1. ^ Rich Johnston (2010-10-13). "Nick Spencer – Politics, Business… Oh, And Comics Too - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News". Bleedingcool.com. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  2. ^ Callan, Jonathan (2009-06-15). "Image's New "Existence"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  3. ^ Wigler, Josh (2009-10-29). "Nick Spencer's 'Existence 3.0'". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  4. ^ Nemiroff, Perri (2010-03-16). "Paramount To Adapt The Comic Existence 2.0". Cinema Blend. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
  5. ^ a b c Ching, Albert (2010-08-03). "Nick Spencer Takes Readers to School with 'Morning Glories'". Newsarama. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
  6. ^ Handlen, Zack; Heller, Jason; Murray, Noel; Phipps, Keith; Pierce, Leonard; Robinson, Tasha (2010-03-26). "Comics Panel". The A.V. Club (The Onion). Retrieved 2010-08-08. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Melrose, Kevin (2010-10-09). "NYCC '10 | DiDio addresses fate of Jimmy Olsen, other DC co-features - Robot 6 @ Comic Book ResourcesRobot 6 @ Comic Book Resources". Robot6.comicbookresources.com. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  8. ^ DCE Editorial (2010-10-08). "NYCC 2010: Meet your new SUPERGIRL creative team | DC Comics". Dcu.blog.dccomics.com. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  9. ^ DCE Editorial (2010-12-15). "A few teases for the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents fans | DC Comics". Dcu.blog.dccomics.com. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  10. ^ "War Machine Gets an IRON MAN 2.0 Upgrade From Nick Spencer". Newsarama.com. 2010-10-20. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  11. ^ [1] Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ [2][dead link‍]
  13. ^ "Kaare Andrews Covers Marvel's Ultimate Relaunch". Comic Book Resources.com. 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2011-05-29.

References

Preceded by Secret Avengers writer
2011 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Rick Remender
(Volume 1)
 Secret Avengers writer
2013-2014
(with Ales Kot 2013-2014) 		Succeeded by
Ales Kot
(Volume 3)

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