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Arvell Jones
Jones in October 2011
BornArvell Malcolm Jones
September 5
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller
Notable works
All-Star Squadron; Misty Knight

Arvell Jones (whose earliest work is billed Arvell Malcolm Jones) is an American

comics artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for DC Comics and its imprint Milestone Media
.

Biography

Jones and his brother, Desmond, were raised in Detroit, Michigan, and were both active in early comic book fandom.[1] Along with fellow Detroiters and future comics professionals Rich Buckler, Tom Orzechowski, Keith Pollard, Jim Starlin, Al Milgrom, Michael Netzer, and others, Jones worked on the Detroit Triple Fan Fair,[1] one of the earliest comic book conventions, and published the local fanzine Fan Informer; it lasted into 1971.[2] Jones in 2006 recalled how he and his compatriots "would take a 13-hour drive and spend the night with Al Milgrom and his roommate, hang at Rich [Buckler]'s, then go see [art director] John Romita at Marvel, get our butts spanked, and go back to Detroit to work on our samples again."[1]

Jones entered the comics industry as an assistant for Buckler, the first of the Detroit group to enter the field professionally.

Iron Fist in Marvel Premiere #20 (January 1975). He also pencilled the next two Iron Fist stories[3] and co-created the supporting character Misty Knight with writer Tony Isabella.[4] Jones also worked on Iron Man
starting with issue #73.

When he moved to DC Comics, Jones worked with writer Gerry Conway on Super-Team Family, which teamed the Atom with various other DC characters.[5] After that title's cancellation, a Supergirl/Doom Patrol team-up drawn by Jones, originally scheduled to appear in Super-Team Family was published in The Superman Family #191–193.[6]

Jones worked on the DC series

Hardware, and Blood Syndicate. His last published comic was Marvel's Daredevil #343 (Aug. 1995), on which he and Keith Pollard did breakdowns, with finished pencils by Tom Palmer.[3]

Bibliography

DC Comics

Milestone Media

Marvel Comics

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Arvell Jones interview. (February 22, 2006). "Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: Arvell Jones". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012.
  2. eBook). p. 50
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  3. ^ a b c Arvell Jones at the Grand Comics Database
  4. ^ Hughes, William (September 2, 2015). "Luke Cage casts its Misty Knight, too, while it's at it". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Johnson, Dan (August 2013). "We Are (Super-Team) Family". Back Issue! (66). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 8–14.
  6. ^ Wells, John (October 24, 1997), "'Lost' DC: 1976-1980", Comics Buyer's Guide, no. 1249, Iola, Wisconsin, p. 128
  7. ^ Jaworski, Jeff. "Arvell Jones". Comicbook-Art.com. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2009.
  8. ^ "Arvell Jones". Lambiek Comiclopedia. May 9, 2008. Archived from the original on March 7, 2012.
  9. ^ Losinski, Brendan (March 2, 2018). "Harper Woods library to host comic book artist Arvell Jones". C & G Newspapers. Archived from the original on August 2, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2018. I had some training in the field, attending Cass Tech and the School of Visual Arts in New York, as well as Wayne State University here in Detroit. I concentrated on drawing and painting, and the design aspect came to me as I kept working.

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Preceded by "
Iron Fist" feature
in Marvel Premiere
artist
1975 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Iron Man artist
1975 		Succeeded by
George Tuska
Preceded by All-Star Squadron artist
1985–1986 		Succeeded by
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