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Jerry Ordway

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born

November 28, 1957 in The United States

gender

male

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http://www.jerryordway.com/

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Comics & Graphic Novels

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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 (1985–1986), 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! (1994), 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. (To date he has only worked on the latter.) He produced occasional wor...more 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 (1985–1986), 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! (1994), 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. (To date he has only worked on the latter.) 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 (vol. 3) #16-18 (1999), as well as penciling the four-issue crossover mini-series Maximum Security (#1-3 and prologue Dangerous Planet) 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 (vol. 2) 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! (which ran between 1995 and 1999). 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 (with Al Gordon) in 1993, and published his creator-owned one-shot The Messenger in July 2000.(less)

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Average rating: 3.64 · 9,990 ratings · 448 reviews · 58 distinct works

	The Power of Shazam 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Superman: Eradication by Jerry Ordway, Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern 3.34 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Superman in the Eighties by Jerry Ordway, John Byrne, Marv Wolfman 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	The Death of Superman by Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson 3.77 avg rating — 3,120 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez (Illustrator), George Pérez (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 2,362 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Superman: World Without a Superman by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Jerry Ordway 3.51 avg rating — 606 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Green Lantern: Tales of the Sinestro Corps by Geoff Johns, Ron Marz, Alan Burnett 3.68 avg rating — 381 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps by Geoff Johns, Peter J. Tomasi, Sterling Gates 3.59 avg rating — 298 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 4 by James Robinson, Tony Harris (Illustrator), Mike Mignola (Illustrator) 4.32 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Starman: To Reach the Stars (Book 6) by James Robinson, Jerry Ordway, Tony Harris (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating: