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Dan Jurgens

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June 27, 1959

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Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during The Death of Superman storyline. Other series he has been associated with include The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), Thor (vol. 2), Captain America (vol. 3), Justice League America, Metal Men, Teen Titans (vol. 2), Zero Hour, Tomb Raider: The Series, Aquaman (vol. 3), and the creator of DC Comics' imprint Tangent.

Jurgens' first professional comic work was for DC Comics on Warlord #63. He was hired due to a recommendation of Warlord-series creator Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens' work after being sho...more Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during The Death of Superman storyline. Other series he has been associated with include The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), Thor (vol. 2), Captain America (vol. 3), Justice League America, Metal Men, Teen Titans (vol. 2), Zero Hour, Tomb Raider: The Series, Aquaman (vol. 3), and the creator of DC Comics' imprint Tangent.

Jurgens' first professional comic work was for DC Comics on Warlord #63. He was hired due to a recommendation of Warlord-series creator Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens' work after being shown his private portfolio at a convention. In 1984, Jurgens was the artist for the Sun Devils limited series (July 1984 - June 1985), with writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. Jurgens would make his debut as a comic book writer with Sun Devils he began scripting from Conway's plots with #8 and fully took over the writing duties on the title with #10. In 1985, Jurgens created the character Booster Gold, who became a member of the Justice League. His first work on Superman was as penciller for Adventures of Superman Annual #1 (1987). In 1989, Jurgens began working full-time on the character when he took over the writing/pencilling of the monthly Adventures of Superman.

Dan Jurgens was the penciller of the 1990–1991 limited series Armageddon 2001 and co-created the hero Waverider with Archie Goodwin. In 1991 Jurgens assumed the writing/pencilling of the main Superman comic book, where he created a supporting hero named Agent Liberty. During his run on Superman, Dan created two major villains, Doomsday and the Cyborg. Doomsday was the main antagonist in the Death of Superman storyline. Jurgens wrote and drew Justice League America for about one year and in 1993 pencilled the Metal Men four-issue miniseries, which was a retcon of their origin story. Jurgens wrote and pencilled the 1994 comic book miniseries and crossover Zero Hour. He wrote and penciled layouts (with finished art by Brett Breeding) to the Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey miniseries, which was a follow-up to the successful Death of Superman storyline. In 1995 Jurgens and Italian artist Claudio Castellini worked on the highly publicized crossover Marvel vs DC. In the same year, he gave up the pencilling duties on Superman.

Jurgens scripted and provided layout art for the Superman vs. Aliens miniseries. The story was about a battle between Superman and the aliens created by H. R. Giger (a.k.a. the Xenomorphs), from the Alien film series. It was co-published by Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics in 1995.

In January 1996, Jurgens was writer and penciller of the new Spider-Man series, The Sensational Spider-Man (Vol. 1), at Marvel Comics. The title was initially conceived to be the flagship showcase for the new Ben Reilly Spider-Man (it replaced the Web of Spider-Man series). The initial seven issues (#0–6, January–July 1996) were written and pencilled by Jurgens. Jurgens pushed strongly for the restoration of Peter Parker as the true Spider-Man and plans were made to enact this soon, but Bob Harras, the new Editor-in-chief, demanded the story be deferred until after the Onslaught crossover. Jurgens had by this stage become disillusioned with the immense amount of group planning and constant changes of ideas and directions and took this as the last straw, resigning from the title. In a past interview several years after his Spider-Man run, Jurgens stated that he would like to have another chance on the character, since his run was with the Ben Reilly character during the Spider-Man Clone Saga, and not Peter Parker.

Jurgens had also written and pencilled Teen Titans (vol. 2) for its entire two year, 24 issue run. New Teen Titans co-creator George Pérez came on board on this incarnation of the Titans as inker for the se(less)

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	The Death of Superman by Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6,089 ratings — published 1993 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Superman by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Roger Stern 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 1,933 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Without a Superman by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Jerry Ordway 3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 1,165 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green Arrow, Vol. 1: The Midas Touch by Dan Jurgens, J.T. Krul (Goodreads Author), Keith Giffen 2.65 of 5 stars 2.65 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Justice League International, Vol. 1: The Signal Masters by Dan Jurgens, Aaron Lopresti (Illustrations), David Finch (Illustrations) 3.03 of 5 stars 3.03 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman/Doomsday: The Aftermath by Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Louise Simonson 3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Jerry Ordway 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zero Hour: Crisis in Time by Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway (Illustrator), Frank Fosco (Illustrator) 2.92 of 5 stars 2.92 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey by Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding (Illustrator) 3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Booster Gold, Vol. 3: Reality Lost by Dan Jurgens, Chuck Dixon, Norm Rapmund (Illustrator) 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 93 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Death and Return of Superman (3 books)
by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, Roger Stern
3.7793775142917636 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 9,446 ratings

Thor (15 books)
by Dan Jurgens, Joe Bennett
4.02558084956583 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 4,261 ratings

Justice League International Vol. III (2 books)
by Dan Jurgens, Aaron Lopresti (Illustrations)
3.0164835164835164 of 5 stars 3.02 avg rating — 364 ratings

Thor by Dan Jurgens & John Romita Jr. (4 books)
by Dan Jurgens, Michael Ryan (Illustrator), Jerry Ordway (Illustrator), John Romita Jr. (Illustrator)
3.4516129032258065 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 124 ratings

Tangent Comics (3 books)
by Dan Jurgens, Darryl Banks (Illustrator), J.H. Williams III (Illustrator), Ryan Sook (Illustrator), Mark Millar, Peter David, Ron Marz
3.2419354838709675 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 62 ratings

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