Bob Ingersoll

Robert "Bob" Ingersoll (born October 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and writer. Ingersoll's full time occupation is as a Lead Attorney with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office in Cleveland, Ohio. However he is more widely known for his writing, in particuliar his work in comic books.

Comic series he has written for include "Donald Duck", "The Green Hornet", "House of Mystery", "Justice Machine", "Mickey Mouse", "Moon Knight" and "Star Trek: All of Me". He was also a frequent contributor for Innovation Comics where he contributed to the "Lost in Space" and "Quantum Leap" comic books as well as being the regular writer on "Hero Alliance".

Since 1983 Ingersoll has written "The Law is an Ass", a regular column in "Comics Buyer's Guide", which has also been published online by World Famous Comics.com since 1999. The column examines the depiction of the law in comics and other fiction and compares it humorously to the reality of legal practice.

He is also the writer of several prose works. He wrote the horror story "Making the Leap" which was published in "Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions" (2003, ISBN 0-7582-0099-4). He is the co-author (with his fellow Comic Buyer's Guide columnist Tony Isabella) of the short story "If Wishes Were Horses..." (which was published in "The Ultimate Super Villains", ISBN 1-57297-113-4, in 1996) and the novels "Captain America: Liberty's Torch" (1998 ISBN 0-425-16619-8) and "Star Trek: The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse (A Sam Cogley Mystery)" (2003, ISBN 0-7434-6497-4). He is co-author (with fellow comic-book creator Thomas F. Zahler) of the short story "'Til Death" (which was published in ": The Sky's the Limit", ISBN 0-7434-9255-2 and ISBN 978-0-7434-9255-3, in 2007)

In 1987 (in the pages of "Secret Origins" #14) writer John Ostrander named a piece of legislation in the fictional DC universe "the Ingersoll Amendment"; this was an obvious reference to Ingersoll who has frequently provided Ostrander and other comic book writers with advice on how to portray the law in their work.

External links

* [http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/law/ Ingersoll's "The Law is a Ass" Column]