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Dan Jurgens

Born

in The United States

June 27, 1959

Website

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Genre

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Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during The Death of Superman storyline. Other series he has been associated with include The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), Thor (vol. 2), Captain America (vol. 3), Justice League America, Metal Men, Teen Titans (vol. 2), Zero Hour, Tomb Raider: The Series, Aquaman (vol. 3), and the creator of DC Comics' imprint Tangent.

Jurgens' first professional comic work was for DC Comics on Warlord #63. He was hired due to a recommendation of Warlord-series creator Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens' work after being sho Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during The Death of Superman storyline. Other series he has been associated with include The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), Thor (vol. 2), Captain America (vol. 3), Justice League America, Metal Men, Teen Titans (vol. 2), Zero Hour, Tomb Raider: The Series, Aquaman (vol. 3), and the creator of DC Comics' imprint Tangent.

Jurgens' first professional comic work was for DC Comics on Warlord #63. He was hired due to a recommendation of Warlord-series creator Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens' work after being shown his private portfolio at a convention. In 1984, Jurgens was the artist for the Sun Devils limited series (July 1984 - June 1985), with writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. Jurgens would make his debut as a comic book writer with Sun Devils he began scripting from Conway's plots with #8 and fully took over the writing duties on the title with #10. In 1985, Jurgens created the character Booster Gold, who became a member of the Justice League. His first work on Superman was as penciller for Adventures of Superman Annual #1 (1987). In 1989, Jurgens began working full-time on the character when he took over the writing/pencilling of the monthly Adventures of Superman.

Dan Jurgens was the penciller of the 1990–1991 limited series Armageddon 2001 and co-created the hero Waverider with Archie Goodwin. In 1991 Jurgens assumed the writing/pencilling of the main Superman comic book, where he created a supporting hero named Agent Liberty. During his run on Superman, Dan created two major villains, Doomsday and the Cyborg. Doomsday was the main antagonist in the Death of Superman storyline. Jurgens wrote and drew Justice League America for about one year and in 1993 pencilled the Metal Men four-issue miniseries, which was a retcon of their origin story. Jurgens wrote and pencilled the 1994 comic book miniseries and crossover Zero Hour. He wrote and penciled layouts (with finished art by Brett Breeding) to the Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey miniseries, which was a follow-up to the successful Death of Superman storyline. In 1995 Jurgens and Italian artist Claudio Castellini worked on the highly publicized crossover Marvel vs DC. In the same year, he gave up the pencilling duties on Superman.

Jurgens scripted and provided layout art for the Superman vs. Aliens miniseries. The story was about a battle between Superman and the aliens created by H. R. Giger (a.k.a. the Xenomorphs), from the Alien film series. It was co-published by Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics in 1995.

In January 1996, Jurgens was writer and penciller of the new Spider-Man series, The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), at Marvel Comics. The title was initially conceived to be the flagship showcase for the new Ben Reilly Spider-Man (it replaced the Web of Spider-Man series). The initial seven issues (#0–6, January–July 1996) were written and pencilled by Jurgens. Jurgens pushed strongly for the restoration of Peter Parker as the true Spider-Man and plans were made to enact this soon, but Bob Harras, the new Editor-in-chief, demanded the story be deferred until after the Onslaught crossover. Jurgens had by this stage become disillusioned with the immense amount of group planning and constant changes of ideas and directions and took this as the last straw, resigning from the title. In a past interview several years after his Spider-Man run, Jurgens stated that he would like to have another chance on the character, since his run was with the Ben Reilly character during the Spider-Man Clone Saga, and not Peter Parker.

Jurgens had also written and pencilled Teen Titans (vol. 2) for its entire two year, 24 issue run. New Teen Titans co-creator George Pérez came on board on this incarnation of the Titans as inker for the se ...more

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	The Death of Superman by Dan Jurgens, Dennis Janke (Illustrator), Denis Rodier (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 18,763 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Superman by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Roger Stern 3.91 avg rating — 5,897 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Without a Superman by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Louise Simonson 3.86 avg rating — 3,250 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Arrow, Volume 1: The Midas Touch by Dan Jurgens, J.T. Krul (Goodreads Author), Keith Giffen 2.96 avg rating — 2,061 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thor: En busca de los Dioses (Colección Extra Superhéroes, #1: Thor, #1) by Dan Jurgens (guion), John Romita Jr. (Dibujo) 3.79 avg rating — 1,559 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: Action Comics, Vol. 1: Path of Doom by Dan Jurgens (Writer), Tyler Kirkham (Artist), Patrick Zircher (Artist) 3.71 avg rating — 1,567 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: Lois and Clark by Dan Jurgens (Writer), Lee Weeks (Illustrator), Neil Edwards (Illustrator), Marco Santucci (Illustrator), Stephen Segovia (Illustrator), Sergio Cariello (Illustrator), Scott Hanna (Illustrator), Jay Leisten (Illustrator), more… Art Thibert (Illustrator) …less 4.05 avg rating — 1,387 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Justice League International, Volume 1: The Signal Masters by Dan Jurgens (Writer), Aaron Lopresti (Illustrator), David Finch (Illustrator) 3.42 avg rating — 1,449 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman Beyond, Volume 1: Escaping the Grave by Dan Jurgens (Writer), Bernard Chang (Goodreads Author) (Artist), Marcelo Maiolo (Colourist) 3.78 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman Reborn by Dan Jurgens, Peter J. Tomasi (Writer), Patrick Gleason (Writer, Artist) 3.56 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Action Comics (2016) (21 books)
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Batman Beyond (2016) (8 books)
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Sean Chen (Artist),

Sean Parsons (Artist),

Inaki Miranda (Artist)

3.68 avg rating — 2,660 ratings

Superman: Lois and Clark (8 books)
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Dan Jurgens (Writer),

Brad Anderson (Cover Art),

Lee Weeks (Penciller),

Jeromy Cox (Colorist),

Art Thibert (Inker),

Scott Hanna (Inker),

Stephen Segovia (Penciller)

4.07 avg rating — 1,770 ratings

Thor Extra Superhéroes (6 books)
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Dan Jurgens (translator)

3.79 avg rating — 1,604 ratings

Batman Beyond (2015) (3 books)
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Dan Jurgens (Writer),

Bernard Chang (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator),

Philip Tan (Illustrator),

Stephen Thompson (Illustrator),

Jay Leisten (Illustrator),

Ryan Sook (Illustrator)

3.45 avg rating — 786 ratings

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“Expectation is like an arrow if it misses the target it aims back at you with double force.”
― DJ

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“In some other life
we are standing
side by side and
laughing that, in
some other life

we are apart.”
― d.j.

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“How true it is that youth is wasted on the young, for they are unable to envision all the possibilities.”
― Dan Jurgens, Aquaman and the Others #1

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