Alan Davis

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Not to be confused with Alan Davies.
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Alan Davis
JLA: Another Nail
Uncanny X-Men
AwardsInkpot Award (2011)[1]

Alan Davis (born 18 June 1956)

JLA: Another Nail
.

Career

UK work

Cover of Amazing Heroes #85 (Dec 1985) by Alan Davis

Davis began his career in comics on an English fanzine. His first professional work was a strip called The Crusader in Frantic Magazine for Dez Skinn's revamped Marvel UK line.[3]

Davis's big break was drawing the revamped

D.R. and Quinch for 2000AD.[7] Later, Davis replaced Garry Leach on Marvelman in Warrior and yet again worked with Moore.[8] He also drew the story "Harry Twenty on the High Rock" in 2000AD.[9]

American work

In 1985 Davis received his big break in the United States when he was hired by

Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, which was scheduled to be released months before the "Year Two" storyline, and saw that Chill was depicted using a smaller handgun without the extended barrel. When asked by editorial to redraw the gun in his artwork, Davis refused. Dick Giordano redrew the gun in the artwork.[13]

Davis accepted an offer by

Kylun
.

The ClanDestine, created by Davis for Marvel
in 1994

In 1994 Davis created a new series of original characters called the ClanDestine, which featured the Destines, a family of long-lived, magically powered British superhumans.[16] Davis wrote and penciled the title for the first eight issues. He departed after issue 8, and the series was canceled with issue 12. In 1996 Davis wrote and drew the two issue crossover miniseries X-Men and The ClanDestine.[17]

In 1991, Davis reunited with writer Barr to draw the sequel to "Year Two", the one-shot

JLA: The Nail[19] and The Avengers.[20]
He was also commissioned to write both main X-Men series in 1999 (providing art for X-Men as well), but he left the following year.

Starting in October 2002 he wrote and drew for Marvel

John Romita Jr). In February 2008, Davis wrote and pencilled a five-part ClanDestine miniseries and the one-shot Thor: Truth of History for Marvel.[22] Davis most recent work has been in Totally Awesome Hulk (#7–8, 2016), the Thanos Trilogy (2018–2019)[23][24] and a reunion with Roy Thomas in 2019 for two issues of The Savage Sword of Conan (#10–11, volume 2).[25]

Personal life

Davis and his wife Heather have a son, Thomas, and a daughter, Pauline. Thomas had recently been born when Davis began his work on the Captain Britain stories in 1981, and Pauline was born a few years later.[4]

Bibliography

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

  • Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes, miniseries, #1 (2008)
  • Avengers vol. 3 #38–43, 63 (2001–2003)
  • Avengers: Ultron Forever #1–3 (2015)
  • Avengers Prime, miniseries, #1–5 (2010–2011)
  • Avengers: The Children's Crusade: Young Avengers (2011)
  • Captain America vol. 6 #6–10 (2012)
  • Captain America #703 (2018)
  • Captain Britain and The Mighty Defenders #1–2 (2015)
  • ClanDestine
     #1–8 (writer/artist, 1994–1995)
  • ClanDestine, miniseries, #1–5 (2008)
  • Daredevil vol. 3 Annual #1 (2012)
  • Dark Reign The List: Uncanny X-Men (2009)
  • Excalibur #1–7, 9, 12–17, 23–24, 42–52, 54–58, 61–67 (1988–1993), Special Edition (1987)
  • Fantastic Four Annual #33 (2012)
  • Fantastic Four: The End
    , miniseries, #1–6 (writer/artist, 2007)
  • Fantastic Four vol. 3 #1–3 (1998)
  • Free Comic Book Day: Civil War II (2016)
  • Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler #1 (2020)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Mother Entropy, miniseries #1–5 (2017)
  • The Infinity Entity, miniseries, #1–4 (2016)
  • Iron Man vol. 3 #64 (2003)
  • Killraven, miniseries, #1–6 (writer/artist, 2002)
  • Marvel Comics #1000 (2019)
  • Marvel Comics Presents (ClanDestine) #158 (1994)
  • Black Knight
    ) #4 (1990)
  • New Mutants Annual #2–3 (1986–1987)
  • Savage Hulk #1–4 (writer/penciller) (2014)
  • Savage Sword of Conan vol. 2 #10–11 (2019)
  • Secret_Invasion: Fantastic Four miniseries, #1A, 2, and 3 of 3 (cover artist) (2008)
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. vol. 3 #3 (2015)
  • Solo Avengers (She-Hulk) #14 (1989)
  • Spider-Man The Official Movie Adaptation (2002)
  • Stan Lee Meets Doctor Strange
     (2006)
  • Tarot #1–4 (writer only, 2020)
  • Thanos: The Infinity Siblings OGN (2018)
  • Thanos: The Infinity Conflict OGN (2018)
  • Thanos: The Infinity Ending OGN (2019)
  • Thor vol. 2 #58 (2003)
  • Mighty Thor #18–21 (2012)
  • Thor: Truth of History, one-shot (writer/artist, 2008)
  • The Totally Awesome Hulk #7–8 (2016)
  • Uncanny X-Men (artist): #213, 215, 444–447, 450–451, 455–459, 462–463, Annual #11 (1987–2004); (writer): #366–380, Annual 1999 (1999–2000)
  • Wolverine: Bloodlust, graphic novel (1990)
  • Wolverine vol. 4 Annual #1 (writer/artist, 2012)
  • Wolverine vol. 5 #1–4, 8–13 (2013–2014)
  • X-Men vol. 2 (artist): #85–90, 93–94, 96–98, Annual #9; (writer): #91–92, 95, 99 (1999–2000)
  • X-Men: Schism, miniseries, #4 (2011)
  • X-Men/ClanDestine, miniseries, #1–2 (1996)
  • Young Avengers Presents #6 (2008)

Marvel UK

  • Captain Britain vol. 2 #1–14 (1985–1986)
  • The Daredevils (Captain Britain) #1–11 (1983)
  • The Empire Strikes Back Monthly
     #153, 156 (1982)
  • Marvel Superheroes (Captain Britain) #377–388 (1981–1982)
  • Mighty World of Marvel
     vol. 2 (Captain Britain) #7–16 (1983–1984)

Other publishers

Collected editions

References

  1. ^ Inkpot Award
  2. ^ "Show #72: The Mark Gruenwald Show". The Fred Hembeck Show. Quick Stop Entertainment. 14 September 2006. Archived from the original on 18 October 2007. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  3. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 49–52.
  4. ^ a b Davis, Alan (w). "Stick with it, it gets better!", X-Men Archives Featuring Captain Britain #1 (July 1995), Marvel Comics (New York City), p. 4.
  5. ^ a b c Lowrey, Nigel (August 2008). "The Saga of Captain Britain". Back Issue! (29). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 35–43.
  6. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 45–47.
  7. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 39–42.
  8. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 35–40.
  9. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 38–39.
  10. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 61–65.
  11. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 62–64.
  12. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, p. 66.
  13. ^ Cronin, Brian (21 November 2014). "Comic Book Legends Revealed #498". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on 25 November 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  14. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 63–65.
  15. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 68–71.
  16. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 72–73.
  17. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 73–76.
  18. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 69–71.
  19. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 75–77.
  20. ^ Nolen-Weathington 2003, pp. 79–82.
  21. ^ "Alan Davis Moves from the X-Men to Fantastic Four". Comic Book Resources. 25 May 2005. Retrieved 19 September 2008.
  22. ^ Ekstrom, Steve (29 August 2008). "Alan Davis on Thor: Truth of History". Newsarama. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2008.
  23. ^ Johnston, Rich (22 March 2018). "Thanos to Fight His Own Future in Thanos: The Infinity Conflict by Jim Starlin and Alan Davis". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  24. ^ Johnston, Rich (21 March 2019). "Jim Starlin and Alan Davis's Thanos: The Infinity Ending Gets a Description". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  25. ^ Johnston, Rich (2 August 2019). "A Look at Roy Thomas and Alan Davis' Savage Sword of Conan Prequel to People Of The Black Circle". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

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Preceded by Detective Comics artist
1986–1987 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Excalibur writer
1991–1993 		Succeeded by
Scott Lobdell
Preceded by Uncanny X-Men writer
1999–2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Joe Kelly
 X-Men (vol. 2) writer
1999–2000 		Succeeded by
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