Danny fingeroth biography

Daniel Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics.
Danny Fingeroth is the author of Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee, and many other books and.
Danny started his career in the comics and graphic novel worlds, having spent close to two decades as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, best known for his.

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About Danny Fingeroth

DANNY FINGEROTH is a longtime popular culture critic and historian. He writes and speaks about topics that tell us about ourselves and the cultural icons that impact our lives. His most recent book is JACK RUBY: THE MANY FACES OF OSWALD’S ASSASSIN, a look into the mind of the strange, violent man who changed history when, on November 24, 1963, he murdered Lee Harvey Oswald—presumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy—on live TV.

He’s also the author of the definitive biography A MARVELOUS LIFE: THE AMAZING STORY OF STAN LEE, published in 2019 by St. Martin’s press/Macmillan. Danny has done the audio narration of the Jack Ruby and Stan Lee books, as well as for his books Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent. (He’s eager to do audiobooks for other authors.)

Danny started his career in the comics and graphic novel worlds, having spent close to two decades as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, best known for his work on iconic character SPIDER-MAN.

Danny spent several years touring with the Wizard World pop culture convention train

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Danny Fingeroth is an accomplished biographer and cultural historian/commentator, specializing in history at the intersection of Jewish and American cultures. His books include Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society and Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero. His acclaimed 2019 biography of Stan Lee, A Marvelous Life, looks at this innovative Jewish-American figure—the co-creator of Marvel Comics—in the context of the overall culture.

Now, with Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin (the paperback edition was released in October by Chicago Review Press) Fingeroth, his expert ear to the ground for deeper meanings, takes us through Jack Ruby’s bizarre life of extreme behavior leading up to and beyond that fateful weekend in Dallas in November 1963 when Ruby emerged from a crowd and killed accused JFK-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. The book makes extensive use of the notes taken by Rabbi Hillel Silverman (father of

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Danny Fingeroth

American comic book writer and editor

Daniel Fingeroth (; born September 17^[1]) is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics.

Early life

Fingeroth was born in New York City, New York.^[2]

Career

As a writer and editor

Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1976 as an assistant to Larry Lieber at Marvel Comics.^[3] At Marvel Comics in the 1980s, he edited the Spider-Man titles as well as Marvel Team-Up and Ka-Zar.^[4]

As a writer, Fingeroth worked on Darkhawk, writing all 50 issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on Dazzler, wrote the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the Howard the Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including Avengers, Daredevil, Iron Man and What If?, as well as the Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel.

Fingeroth resigned from Marvel in 1995 to becom