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Jerry Ordway

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Jeremiah "Jerry" Ordway is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books. He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining classic Crisis on Infinite Earths , his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986–1993, and for writing and painting the Captain Marvel original graphic novel The Power of Shazam! , and writing the on-going monthly series from 1995-1999. He has provided inks for artists such as Curt Swan, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema and Steve Ditko.

Ordway was inspired in his childhood by Marvel Comics, and dreamed of drawing Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Avengers. He produced occasional work for Marvel between 1984 and 1988, then returned a decade later to write and illustrate a three-issue arc of Avengers #16-18 , as well as penciling the four-issue crossover mini-series Maximum Security in 2000-2001.

In 1986, along with writer/artist John Byrne and writer Marv Wolfman, Ordway was one of the architects trusted with revamping Superman, in the wake of the Ordway-inked continuity-redefining maxiseries Crisis on Infinite Earths. Launching, with a revised origin and new continuity, in Byrne's miniseries, The Man of Steel, Superman soon returned to featuring in a number of titles. After the titular title Superman was cancelled and replaced with Man of Steel, it was swiftly relaunched as Adventures of Superman, continuing the numbering of the original Superman comic, with Wolfman as writer and Ordway as primary artist.

When Wolfman departed the title, John Byrne briefly took over scriptwriting duties before Ordway assumed the mantle of writer-artist and took over the series solely. Switching from Adventures of Superman, Ordway took over as writer-artist on the companion title Superman between 1989 and 1991, before later returning to Adventures.. as writer. While writing for the Superman family of titles, he helped devise the epic "Death of Superman" storyline in 1992. After seven years working on the character, Ordway largely left the Superman titles in 1993, although he would make frequent returns to the character as writer and artist throughout his career.

In 1994, Ordway masterminded the return of the original Captain Marvel to the DC Universe with the 96-page hardcover graphic novel The Power of Shazam!, which he both wrote and painted. The story saw Ordway depict the revamped origins of the former-Fawcett Comics superhero. An early example of the one-shot Original Graphic Novel, it proved to be a success, and was followed by an on-going monthly series, also titled The Power of Shazam! . Ordway wrote and provided painted covers for the entire run of the regular series, as well as illustrating fill-in issues between series-regular artists Peter Krause and Mike Manley. Towards the end of the series run, he again took on the dual role of writer & artist.

For Image Comics, Ordway co-created the character WildStar in 1993, and published his creator-owned one-shot The Messenger in July 2000.

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Jerry Ordway

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Books from Jerry Ordway

Justice League, Volume 7: Darkseid War, Part 1

Worlds' Finest, Volume 1: The Lost Daughters of Earth 2

Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps

Green Lantern: Tales of the Sinestro Corps

Norse Mythology, Vol. 1

Infinite Crisis

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 4

Superman: The Man of Steel, Vol. 2

Justice Society of America, Vol. 4: Thy Kingdom Come, Vol. 3

Superman/Doomsday: The Aftermath

Superman: The Man of Steel, Vol. 3

Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, Book 1

The Death of Superman

The Death and Return of Superman: Omnibus

DC Universe: Legacies

The Power of Shazam!

JSA, Vol. 12: Ghost Stories

JSA, Vol. 9: Lost

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