Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist. Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020). He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.
Series
Books
Marvel Zombies 3
2009
The Incredible Hercules, Vol. 3
Love and War
2009
The Con Artist
2018
Marvel Adventures Iron Man (2007-2008) #1
2007
The New Orleans Guidebook
1997
The Incredible Hercules #125
2009
Action Presidents #3
Theodore Roosevelt!
2020
Hulk Family
Green Genes #1
2018
Hulk
Season One
2012
The Incredible Hercules
Smash of the Titans
2009
Halo
Blood Line
2011
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Gauntlet, Vol. 4: Juggernaut
2010
Weapon X, Vol. 4
Russian Revolution
2018
Marvel-Verse
Shang-Chi
2021
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005-2010) #33
2008
Bloodshot
2025
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Gauntlet, Vol. 1: Electro & Sandman
2010
Never Sleep
2023
The Art of Troma
2018
Hercules
2015
Action Philosophers #5
Zen & the Kabballah!
2025
Incredible Hulk #601
2011
Wolverine
First Class #1
2008
Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #604
2009
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Fantastic Spider-Man
2011
Wolverine
First Class #11
2009
Marvel Zombies 4
2009
Prince of Power #3
2010
Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #603
2009
Free Comic Book Day 2014
Project Black Sky #5
2015
Captain America & Thor
Avengers! #1
2011
Marvel's The Avengers Prelude - Black Widow Strikes
2012
Action Presidents #4
John F. Kennedy!
2018
Marvel-Verse
Iron Man
2019
The Incredible Hercules #129
2009
Comic Book History of Comics
Comics For All
2018
Weapon X, Vol. 5
Weapon X-Force
2019
Conan, Vol. 17
Shadows Over Kush
2015
Big Trouble in Little China #19
2015
King Kirby
A play by Crystal Skillman & Fred Van Lente
2014
Marvel Noir
Wolverine & The X-Men
2013
Halo
Legacy Collection
2013
Wolverine
First Class #12
2009
Action Philosophers #10
Hume, Kirkgaard & John Stuart Mill
2009
Project Black Sky
Secret Files
2014
The Incredible Hercules #121
2008
Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #616
2009
Big Trouble in Little China #25
2016
Weapon X #1
2017
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Gauntlet, Vol. 2: Rhino & Mysterio
2010
Halo
Blood Line #2
2010
Captain America
First Vengeance
2011
The Incredible Hercules #124
2008
The Amazing Spider-Man
24/7
2009
Big Trouble in Little China #22
2016
Comic Book History of Comics
2012
Ant-Man
2015
Action Presidents #1
George Washington!
2018
Dark Horse Presents #31
2013
Big Trouble in Little China #21
2016
Amadeus Cho
Genius At Work
2016
Iron Man (Marvel Age)
Heart of Steel
2008
Action Philosophers! Giant-Sized Thing, Vol. 1
2006
Action Philosophers #3
St. Augustine & St. Thomas Aquinas
2009
Action Philosophers #8
Descartes & Sartre!
2009
Action Philosophers #1
The Pre-socratics and Plato!
2006
Dark Horse Presents #23
2015
Marvel Platinum
The Definitive Shang-Chi
2021
Big Trouble in Little China #20
2016
Big Trouble in Little China #23
2016
Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing, Vol. 3
2007
The Incredible Hercules #126
2009
The Incredible Hercules, Vol. 2
Secret Invasion
2008
Deadpool Vs Punisher TP
2017
Assassin's Creed
Free Comic Book Day 2016
2016
Conan, Vol. 20
A Witch Shall Be Born
2016
Action Philosophers!
the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust
2009
Ten Dead Comedians
A Murder Mystery
2017
Iron Man (Marvel Age)
Web of Lies
2010
Big Trouble in Little China #15
2015
Tales from the Crypt #7
Something Wicca This Way Comes
2009
Wolverine
First Class #9
2008
Slapstick
2017
Deadpool vs. The Punisher #1
2017
Halo
Blood Line #1
2009
Action Presidents #2
Abraham Lincoln!
2018
Dark Horse Presents #24
1986
Action Philosophers #6
Marx & Nietzsche!
2009
Iron Man
Golden Avenger #1
2008
The Incredible Hercules, Vol. 1
Against the World
2008
Action Presidents #2
Abraham Lincoln!
2018
Action Philosophers #13
Digital Exclusive!
2012
Odd Is on Our Side
2010
HULK
INCREDIBLE ORIGINS
2019
The Incredible Hercules #139
2009
The Best Archie Comic Ever (FCBD 2022)
2022
Deadpool Team Up Vol. 3
Mytho Mais Logique
2016
Incredible Hulk #605
2009
The Amazing Spider-Man
Big Time - The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
2012
The Incredible Hercules #122
2008
The Incredible Hercules #116
2008
The Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Island
2012
The Incredible Hercules #128
2009
Eternals, Vol. 2
Manifest Destiny
2009
Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #622
2010
Tales from the Crypt #6
You Tomb
2009
Amazing Spider-Man (1999-2013) #647
2010
All-New Savage She-Hulk #3
2009
Captain America
The First Avenger #1: First Vengeance
2011
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Gauntlet, Vol. 3: Vulture & Morbius
2010
Incredible Hulk #603
2009
Captain America Spotlight
2011
Action Philosophers #7
Machiavelli & Thomas Jefferson
2009
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005-2010) #35
2008
Lobezno
Primera Clase Vol. 1
2009
