Scott Beatty
| Scott Beatty | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
Scott Beatty is an American author who has written comic books and encyclopaedias based on DC Comics characters.
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Biography
Beatty has worked extensively for the popular comic book publisher DC Comics since the mid '90s. He is perhaps best known for his work on several encyclopedic guides to superheroes.
He has also worked writing comic books, recently contributing to the Wildstorm reboot World's End with the series Wildstorm: Revelations and Number of the Beast.[1][2] Other projects include Buck Rogers and The Last Phantom for Dynamite Entertainment.[3][4]
Bibliography
Ultimate Guides
The popular series of Ultimate Guides published by DK Publishing and are known for delving deeply into the topic at hand, and they typically require a great deal of addition research on Beatty's part. Among others, Beatty has written:
- Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight
- Catwoman: The Visual Guide to the Feline Fatale
- JLA:The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League of America
- Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess
- The DC Comics Encyclopedia
- Batman Begins: The Visual Guide
- The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual
- The Superman Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Saving the Day
- The DC Comics Action Figure Archive
- Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of steel
Comic books
Beatty also has an extensive resume of actual comic book projects. Some of his most well known work includes:
- The Last Phantom
- Green Lantern: Circle of Fire Green Lantern and Power Girl
- Batman: Gotham Knights #33-49
- Robin: Year One #1-4 (with Chuck Dixon)
- Robin #88-91
- Joker: Last Laugh #1-6
- Nightwing: Year One (Nightwing #101-107)
- Batgirl: Year One #1-9 (with Chuck Dixon)
- Ruse #10-26
- Star Wars Tales #13
- Secret Files & Origins and 80-Page Giants for Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, JLA, JSA, and others
- Son of Vulcan #1-6
- JSA: Classified #19-20 (with pencils by Rags Morales and inks by Michael Bair, DC Comics, 2007)
- Wildstorm: Revelations (with co-author Christos Gage, and art by Wes Craig, Wildstorm, 2008)
- Number of the Beast (with Chris Sprouse, Wildstorm, 2008)
- Gen¹³ #21- (with Mike Huddleston, Wildstorm, forthcoming)
Notes
- ↑ Gage & Beatty on Wildstorm: Revelations, Newsarama, January 4, 2008
- ↑ Scott Beatty: Exploring The Wildstorm Universe, Newsarama, February 13, 2008
- ↑ Back to the Future: Barrucci and Beatty on Buck Rogers, Newsarama, February 23, 2009
- ↑ Scott Beatty Talks Buck Rogers, Comic Book Resources, March 6, 2009
References
- Scott Beatty at the Grand Comics Database
- Scott Beatty at the Comic Book DB
External links
Interviews
- Legions of Gotham Interview w/ Scott Beatty about the DC Action Figure Archive
- Legions of Gotham Interview w/ Scott Beatty from 2004
- Batman: YTB - 9/06 Interview with Scott Beatty
- Interview with Beatty about the JSA Classified arc, Newsarama, October 20, 2006
- Radio Interview with Scott Beatty on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 10)
| Preceded by | Batman: Gotham Knights writer 2002–2004 |
Succeeded by A.J. Lieberman |
