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Mike Zeck Born September 6, 1949
Greenville, PennsylvaniaNationality American Area(s) Artist Official website Mike Zeck (born September 6, 1949) is an American comic book illustrator.
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Biography
Splash page featuring the Punisher at the inked stage
Zeck was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania to Michael and Kathryn Jean Zeck. His first memory of comics is from his 1953 recovery from a tonsillectomy in the hospital, his bed covered with comics.
He attended the Ringling School of Art, and 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. 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 mini-series 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 led to the creation of the villain Venom.
Bibliography
Cover art for Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #69 at the inked stage.Comics work includes:
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)
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)
Image Comics
- Damned (4-issue mini-series, 1997)
References
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Categories:- 1949 births
- American comics artists
- Living people
- People from Mercer County, Pennsylvania
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