TONY ISABELLA, like Superman, was born in Cleveland, Ohio. The 50-year comics industry veteran was an editor and writer at Marvel and other publishers. At DC, he created Black Lightning, the company’s first prominent African-American super-hero. He co-wrote the prose novels Captain America: Liberty’s Torch and Star Trek: The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse. He’s the author of 1000 Comic Books You Must Read, one of the most successful books of comics history and nostalgia ever, and the odd-but-strangely-cool July 1963: A Pivotal Month in the Comic-Book Life of Tony Isabella Volume 1. He was the lead reviewer and a contributing editor of Comics Buyer’s Guide for two decades. He was a comics retailer and distributor for twelve years. He has done ghost-writing for several syndicated newspaper comics strips and is currently writing for John Lustig’s Last Kiss. He received the Inkpot Award at the 2013 Comic-Con International in San Diego, a Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention in Philadelphia. Cleveland Magazine named him one of that city’s most interesting people of 2018. That same year, he became the second Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Elkhart Hall of Heroes Museum in Elkhart, Indiana.
Tony’s most recent comics work was the six-issue Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands, marking his return to his creation. He writes on
a variety of subjects for “Tony Isabella’s Bloggy Thing”. He speaks at colleges and libraries on comics history, comics writing and diversity in comics. While developing new projects for comics, TV, movies and more, he’s also working on prose books that will include a “memoir-of-sorts” and compilations of his writings on comic books and his beloved B-movie monsters.
Most notably…Black Lightning was a weekly, live-action series on the CW for four seasons. The show drew much of its inspiration from Isabella’s work on the hero. Isabella had a short speaking part in the show’s third season finale.
As of Halloween, 2022, Isabella has been working in the comic-book industry for fifty years.
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