Alan Grant, the Scottish writer who co-created characters such as Victor Zsasz and Ventriloquist for Batman, has died at the age of 73.
Scottish writer Alan Grant, known for his work on 2000 AD and Batman, has died at the age of 73, his wife Susan confirmed via Facebook. Grant, born in 1949, was active in the comics industry in 1967, but beginning in the 1970s he gained notoriety in the pages of 2000 AD for his work with Judge Dredd.
The recognition achieved catapulted him into the American comic industry, where his work on Batman in the 1980s and 1990s was very important.
For Batman, Grant co-created Anarky, Ratcatcher and Ventriloquist, and co-wrote the Lobo miniseries alongside Keith Giffen and Simon Bisley.
For Batman: Shadow of the Bat, he created some new characters that were quickly incorporated into the Bat-Man mythology, such as Jeremiah Arkham and Victor Zsasz, as well as being one of the main writers of the Knightfall event.
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Grant belonged to a generation of transcendent authors such as Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, Norm Breyfogle, John Wagner, Keith Giffen and Simon Bisley, who gave American comics the “hard” realism typical of British comics.
In 1992, Alan Grant received the Inkpot Award, presented by Comic Con International in San Diego to celebrate a remarkable career in comics and pop culture.
Source: ComicBook.com
Some DC Comics works where Alan Grant participated that are available in our online store are:
Azrael Vol. 1: Fallen Angel
Wolf: The Last Czarnian
Batman Arkham: Penguin
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