Cary Bates
Encyclopedia
Cary Bates is an American
comic book
, animation
television and film writer.
at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to Superman #167 (February 1964). Bates began to sell stories to DC when he was 17.
Bates is best known for his work for DC Comics
on such titles as Action Comics
, Captain Atom
, The Flash
, Legion of Super-Heroes
and Superman
. He began working for the publisher in 1963 and continued to do so up until the early 1990s. His other work includes the comic strip
s The Lone Ranger (1980–1983), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
(1981–1983), and Disney's Gargoyles
during the 1990s. In 2008 he returned after a more than 15 year absence to write True Believers
, a limited series for Marvel Comics
, about a team trying to get to the bottom of secrets and rumours in the Marvel Universe.
Bates appeared in his own comics several times, along side superheroes like the Silver Age
version of The Flash
and the Justice League of America
.
He also was head scriptwriter on the 1980s-1990s live action Superboy television series
, and co-wrote (with Mario Puzo
and John Briley
) the 1992 film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
, produced by Superman: The Movie producers Alexander
and Ilya Salkind
.
Bates has recently collaborated in the DC Comics nostalgic event DC Retroactive writing stories for the one-shot specials The Flash: the 1970s (with art by Benito Gallego), and Justice League of America: The 1970s (drwan by Andy Smith and Gordon Purcell), both released on June, 2011.
People of the United States
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
, animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...
television and film writer.
Biography
Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC ComicsDC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to Superman #167 (February 1964). Bates began to sell stories to DC when he was 17.
Bates is best known for his work for DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
on such titles as Action Comics
Action Comics
Action Comics is an American comic book series that introduced Superman, the first major superhero character as the term is popularly defined...
, Captain Atom
Captain Atom
Captain Atom is a fictional comic book superhero that has existed in three basic incarnations. Created by writer Joe Gill and artist/co-writer Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Space Adventures #33 . Captain Atom was created for Charlton Comics but was later acquired by DC Comics and revised for...
, The Flash
The Flash (comic book)
The Flash is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name. The character's first incarnation, Jay Garrick, first appeared in Flash Comics #1...
, Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion of Super-Heroes
The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team in the 30th and 31st centuries of the . The team first appears in Adventure Comics #247 , and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino....
and Superman
Superman (comic book)
Superman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938...
. He began working for the publisher in 1963 and continued to do so up until the early 1990s. His other work includes the comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
s The Lone Ranger (1980–1983), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Buck Rogers
Anthony Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. A sequel, The Airlords of Han, was published in the March 1929 issue....
(1981–1983), and Disney's Gargoyles
Gargoyles (TV series)
Gargoyles is an American animated series created by Greg Weisman. It was produced by Greg Weisman and Frank Paur and aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997. Gargoyles is known for its dark tone, complex story arcs and melodrama...
during the 1990s. In 2008 he returned after a more than 15 year absence to write True Believers
True Believers (comics)
True Believers is an American comic book limited series from Marvel Comics, written by Cary Bates, with art by Paul Gulacy.It is also the name of an obscure group of Spider-Man villains.-Publication history:...
, a limited series for Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
, about a team trying to get to the bottom of secrets and rumours in the Marvel Universe.
Bates appeared in his own comics several times, along side superheroes like the Silver Age
Silver Age of Comic Books
The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
version of The Flash
Flash (comics)
The Flash is a name shared by several fictional comic book superheroes from the DC Comics universe. Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Harry Lampert, the original Flash first appeared in Flash Comics #1 ....
and the Justice League of America
Justice League
The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics....
.
He also was head scriptwriter on the 1980s-1990s live action Superboy television series
Superboy (TV series)
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication...
, and co-wrote (with Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather , which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola...
and John Briley
John Briley
John Richard Briley is an American writer best known for screenplays of biopics. He won the Academy Award For Best Original Screenplay at the 1982 Oscars for Gandhi...
) the 1992 film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, a 1992 film directed by James Bond alumnus John Glen, was the last project developed by the father and son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind. It follows the events leading up to and including the voyage of Columbus to the New World in 1492...
, produced by Superman: The Movie producers Alexander
Alexander Salkind
Alexander Salkind was the second of three generations of successful international film producers.-Life and career:...
and Ilya Salkind
Ilya Salkind
Ilya Juan Salkind Dominguez , usually known as Ilya Salkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and '80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind....
.
Bates has recently collaborated in the DC Comics nostalgic event DC Retroactive writing stories for the one-shot specials The Flash: the 1970s (with art by Benito Gallego), and Justice League of America: The 1970s (drwan by Andy Smith and Gordon Purcell), both released on June, 2011.
DC
- Action ComicsAction ComicsAction Comics is an American comic book series that introduced Superman, the first major superhero character as the term is popularly defined...
(SupermanSupermanSuperman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
): #354, 356, 358, 366-370, 383-390, 392, 401, 403, 405, 407-408, 410, 412, 414-416, 419, 421-423, 425-428, 430-425, 438-439, 441-442, 444-446, 450, 453-454, 456, 460-466, 468-476, 480-485, 487-499, 501-512, 544, 548-549, 581 (1967–86) - Adventure ComicsAdventure ComicsAdventure Comics was a comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983 and then revamped from 2009 to 2011. In its first era, the series ran for 503 issues , making it the fifth-longest-running DC series, behind Detective Comics, Action Comics, Superman, and Batman...
(SupergirlSupergirl (Kara Zor-El)Kara Zor-El is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and related media, created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino. As Supergirl, Kara Zor-El serves as the biological cousin and female counterpart to DC Comic's iconic superhero Superman, created...
): #381-382, 384, 386, 388-389, 391-392, 394, 396; (VigilanteVigilanteA vigilante is a private individual who legally or illegally punishes an alleged lawbreaker, or participates in a group which metes out extralegal punishment to an alleged lawbreaker....
): #426-427; (Flash): #459-466 (1969–79) - Captain AtomCaptain AtomCaptain Atom is a fictional comic book superhero that has existed in three basic incarnations. Created by writer Joe Gill and artist/co-writer Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Space Adventures #33 . Captain Atom was created for Charlton Comics but was later acquired by DC Comics and revised for...
#1-46, 50, Annual #1-2 (1987–91) - DC ChallengeDC ChallengeDC Challenge was a 12-issue comic book series produced by DC Comics from November 1985 to October 1986, as a round robin experiment in narrative...
, limited series, #11 (1986) - DC Comics PresentsDC Comics PresentsDC Comics Presents was a comic book published by DC Comics from 1978 to 1986 featuring team-ups between Superman and a wide variety of other characters of the DC Universe...
#10-11, 15, 73, 82 (1979–85) - DC Comics Presents: Hawkman #1 (2004)
- DC RetroactiveDC RetroactiveDC Retroactive was a one-shot line of comic book titles launched by DC Comics. It revisited the most important periods of the company’s main characters: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Justice League and the Flash. These comics were published with cover dates of September and...
: The Flash - The '70s (2011) - DC Retroactive: JLA - The '70s (2011)
- DC Retroactive: Superman - The '70s (2011)
- DC Special SeriesDC Special SeriesDC Special Series was an umbrella title for one-shots and special issues published by DC Comics between 1977 and 1981. Each issue featured a different character and was often in a different format than the issue before it. DC Special Series was published in four different formats: Dollar Comics, 48...
(The Flash): #1, 11; (Superman): #5, 23 (1977–81) - DC Super StarsDC Super StarsDC Super Stars was a comic book anthology series published by DC Comics from March 1976 to February 1978. Starting off as a reprint title, it finished its run with original stories...
#12 (1977) - Detective ComicsDetective ComicsDetective Comics is an American comic book series published monthly by DC Comics since 1937, best known for introducing the iconic superhero Batman in Detective Comics #27 . It is, along with Action Comics, the book that launched with the debut of Superman, one of the medium's signature series, and...
#500 (1981) - The FlashThe Flash (comic book)The Flash is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero of the same name. The character's first incarnation, Jay Garrick, first appeared in Flash Comics #1...
#179, 206, 209-212, 216, 218-292, 294-305, 307-312, 314-350 (1968–85) - Hercules Unbound #10-12 (1977)
- House of MysteryHouse of MysteryThe House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series. It had a companion series, House of Secrets.-Genesis:...
#240, 282 (1976–80) - House of Secrets #144 (1977)
- Justice League of America #116, 120-121, 123-124, 138-139 (1975–77)
- The New Adventures of Superboy #1-23, 26- 30, 32-33 (1980–82)
- New GuardiansNew GuardiansNew Guardians is a short-lived series published by DC Comics. It was a spin-off from the Millennium event,and ran for twelve issue, from 1988 through 1989, before being canceled. It is also the name of the group of characters who appeared in the series. The characters first appeared in Millennium...
#2-12 (1988–89) - Secret OriginsSecret OriginsSecret Origins is the title of three American comic book series published by DC Comics.The title began in 1961 and for one issue, all reprints. The title Secret Origins of Super Heroes went onto a second series, also reprints, which ran for seven issues from 1973-1974...
#34, 40 (1988–89) - SilverbladeSilverbladeSilverblade is a supernatural fantasy comic book limited series, published in the United States by DC Comics in 1987. The maxi-series ran for twelve issues. The book was written by Cary Bates with the art drawn by Gene Colan; it was edited by Dennis O'Neil...
#1-12 (1987–88) - Strange Sports Stories #4 (1974)
- Superboy, vol. 1, (Superboy): #148; (Legion of Super-HeroesLegion of Super-HeroesThe Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team in the 30th and 31st centuries of the . The team first appears in Adventure Comics #247 , and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino....
): #173, 183-184, 188, 190-193, 195, 197-209, 211, 214-216, 218, 220, 222 (1965–76) - SupergirlSupergirl (comic book)Supergirl is the name of six comic book series published by DC Comics, featuring various characters of the same name. The majority of the titles feature Superman's cousin Kara Zor-El.-Volume 1 :...
#1-4, 7-10 (1972–74) - SupermanSuperman (comic book)Superman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938...
#198, 200-201, 204, 209, 213, 214, 219, 200-221, 223, 230-231, 238, 240, 243, 246, 249-250, 255-259, 261, 263-264, 269, 275, 278-279, 281, 283-284, 288-289, 291, 294, 296-300, 327, 329, 353-369, 372-375, 379-386, 388-392, 401-402, 410, 412-413, 415, 418, 421, Annual #9, 12 (1967–86) - Superman FamilySuperman FamilySuperman Family was a DC Comics comic book series which ran from 1974 to 1982 featuring stories starring supporting characters in the Superman comics...
#166, 169-173, 176-183, 195-198 (1974–1979) - Superman's Girl Friend, Lois LaneSuperman's Girl Friend, Lois LaneSuperman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane was a comic book series published monthly by DC Comics focusing on the adventures of supporting character Lois Lane. The series began publication March/April 1958 and ended its run September/October 1974 with 137 regular issues and 2 80-page Annuals...
#96, 108-109, 112, 120-121, 123-127, 130-132, 134-137 (1969–1974) - Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #107, 109, 111, 157 (1967–1973)
- Superman: The Last Family of Krypton, #1-3 miniseries (2010)
- V #1-6, 9-16 (1985–86)
- Weird Western TalesWeird Western TalesWeird Western Tales is a Western genre comic book title published by DC Comics which ran from June-July 1972 to August 1980. It is perhaps best known for featuring the adventures of Jonah Hex until #38 when the character was promoted to his own eponymous series...
#12-13, 15-17, 19 (1972–1973) - Wonder WomanWonder WomanWonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
#206, 213, 215 (1973–1975) - Wonder Woman vol. 2 #26 (1989)
- World's Finest ComicsWorld's Finest ComicsWorld's Finest Comics was an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1941 to 1986. The series was initially titled World's Best Comics for its first issue; issue #2 switched to the more familiar name...
#151, 167-169, 174, 176, 178, 180-182, 184, 189-191, 302 (1965–1970, 1984)
Marvel
- Codename: Spitfire #10 (1987)
- Fantastic FourFantastic FourThe Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...
Cosmic-Size Special (2009) - NightmaskNightmaskNightmask is a title given to several fictional characters who appear in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original Nightmask, Keith Remsen, was created by Archie Goodwin and Tony Salmons and first appeared in Nightmask #1 , a series which was published under Marvel's New Universe...
#3, 5 (1987) - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6-9 (1987)
- Star BrandStar BrandThe Star Brand is the name of a number of similar fictional comic book objects of power all of which exist in the multiverse created by the shared universes of Marvel Comics...
#8-9 (1987) - True BelieversTrue Believers (comics)True Believers is an American comic book limited series from Marvel Comics, written by Cary Bates, with art by Paul Gulacy.It is also the name of an obscure group of Spider-Man villains.-Publication history:...
, miniseries, (2008–09) ISBN 0-7851-2600-7 - Video Jack #1-6 (1987–1988)
Warren
- CreepyCreepyCreepy was an American horror-comics magazine launched by Warren Publishing in 1964. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. The anthology magazine was initially published quarterly but...
#83, 89, 92, 95, 99-100, 102, 109-111 (1976–79) - EerieEerieEerie was an American magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing. Like Mad, it was a black-and-white newsstand publication in a magazine format and thus did not require the approval or seal of the Comics Code Authority. Each issue's stories were introduced by the host...
#81, 96, 99-105, 107-109, 117 (1977–80) - VampirellaVampirellaVampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...
#59, 67, 75, 79-80, 82, 111 (1977–1983)