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Keith Giffen
Author · 160 books

Keith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics. Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom. He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy. He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics' Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.

Series

Books

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #2 (Scooby Apocalypse book cover

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #2 (Scooby Apocalypse

2016

Booster Gold (2007-) #37 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-) #37

2010

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #1 (Scooby Apocalypse book cover

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #1 (Scooby Apocalypse

2016

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #291 (Legion of Super-Heroes book cover

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #291 (Legion of Super-Heroes

1982

Booster Gold (2007-2011) #40 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-2011) #40

2011

Green Arrow, Volume 1 book cover

Green Arrow, Volume 1

The Midas Touch

2012

Savage Dragon book cover

Savage Dragon

Team-Ups

1999

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-2010) #6

2010

DC Comics Presents book cover

DC Comics Presents

Metal Men #1

2011

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.12

2021

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol. 10

2021

Justice League 3000 #10 book cover

Justice League 3000 #10

2014

Justice League 3000 #13 book cover

Justice League 3000 #13

2015

Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (1991) #1 book cover

Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (1991) #1

1991

Marvel Limited Edition book cover

Marvel Limited Edition

Supervillanos Unidos

2015

Anihilacija, tom 2 book cover

Anihilacija, tom 2

2007

Justice League 3001 #10 book cover

Justice League 3001 #10

2016

Booster Gold (2007-) #32 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-) #32

2013

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 1 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 1

2017

Justice League 3000 #8 book cover

Justice League 3000 #8

2014

Booster Gold (2007-) #35 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-) #35

2010

Blue Beetle (2016-) #6 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #6

2017

Justice League International Vol. 4 (Justice League of America book cover

Justice League International Vol. 4 (Justice League of America

1989

Threshold (2013) #8 book cover

Threshold (2013) #8

2013

Blue Beetle (2016-) #7 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #7

2017

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #15 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #15

2010

Spider-Man book cover

Spider-Man

Amazing Friends

2009

Justice League 3001 #12 book cover

Justice League 3001 #12

2016

Lavkraft book cover

Lavkraft

2003

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 5 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 5

2019

Justice League 3001 #5 book cover

Justice League 3001 #5

2015

Justice League 3001 #2 book cover

Justice League 3001 #2

2015

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #1 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #1

2009

Threshold (2013) #3 book cover

Threshold (2013) #3

2013

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #304 (Legion of Super-Heroes book cover

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #304 (Legion of Super-Heroes

1983

Justice League International, Vol. 3 book cover

Justice League International, Vol. 3

1989

Justice League 3000 #15 book cover

Justice League 3000 #15

2015

Drax The Destroyer (2005) #3 book cover

Drax The Destroyer (2005) #3

2005

Justice League 3001, Vol. 2 book cover

Justice League 3001, Vol. 2

Things Fall Apart

2016

Blue Beetle, Vol. 2 book cover

Blue Beetle, Vol. 2

Road Trip

2007

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #2 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #2

2009

Secret Origins (1986-1990) #35 book cover

Secret Origins (1986-1990) #35

1988

Booster Gold (2007-2011) #42 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-2011) #42

2011

Justice League International Vol. 6 (Justice League of America book cover

Justice League International Vol. 6 (Justice League of America

1990

Justice League 3001 #6 book cover

Justice League 3001 #6

2015

Blue Beetle (2016-) #4 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #4

2016

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 6 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 6

2019

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.14

2021

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #13 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #13

2017

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-2010) #5

2010

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 2 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 2

2017

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 3 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 3

2018

Green Arrow (2011-2016) #5 book cover

Green Arrow (2011-2016) #5

2012

Heraldos de Galactus book cover

Heraldos de Galactus

2021

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol. 8

2021

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.18

2022

Defenders #1 book cover

Defenders #1

2005

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-2010) #4

2010

Justice League 3001 #8 book cover

Justice League 3001 #8

2016

Doom Patrol, Vol. 1 book cover

Doom Patrol, Vol. 1

We Who Are About to Die

2010

Drax The Destroyer (2005) #2 book cover

Drax The Destroyer (2005) #2

2005

Justice League 3001 #9 book cover

Justice League 3001 #9

2016

DC House of Horror #1 book cover

DC House of Horror #1

2017

Threshold (2013) #7 book cover

Threshold (2013) #7

2013

Justice League 3001 #4 book cover

Justice League 3001 #4

1987

Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 1 book cover

Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 1

An Eye for an Eye

2007

Justice League International, Vol. 2 book cover

Justice League International, Vol. 2

1988

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol. 13

2021

El Tigre Blanco book cover

El Tigre Blanco

2018

Annihilation book cover

Annihilation

Silver Surfer #1

2005

Secret Origins (1986-1990) #48 book cover

Secret Origins (1986-1990) #48

1990

Lobo book cover

Lobo

El Regreso

2015

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #21 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #21

2011

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year, Vol. 2

2011

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #13 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #13

2010

Threshold (2013) #4 book cover

Threshold (2013) #4

2013

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #17 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #17

2010

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year #7

2010

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.16

2022

Midnighter (2006-2008) #16 book cover

Midnighter (2006-2008) #16

2008

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #11 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #11

2017

Annihilation #4 book cover

Annihilation #4

2006

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #3 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #3

2009

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.21

2022

Justice League 3000 #11 book cover

Justice League 3000 #11

2014

Blue Beetle (2016-) #1 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #1

2016

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.15

2022

Looney Tunes (1994-) #83 book cover

Looney Tunes (1994-) #83

2001

Threshold, Vol. 1 book cover

Threshold, Vol. 1

The Hunted

2014

Blue Beetle (2016-) #8 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #8

2017

Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Superheroes book cover

Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Superheroes

1991

Booster Gold (2007-2011) #20 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-2011) #20

2009

Justice League 3001 #1 book cover

Justice League 3001 #1

2015

SuperPatriot book cover

SuperPatriot

1993

Larfleeze, Vol. 1 book cover

Larfleeze, Vol. 1

Revolt of the Orange Lanterns

2014

Annihilation book cover

Annihilation

Prologue #1

2006

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #12 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #12

2017

Justice League Unlimited #43 book cover

Justice League Unlimited #43

Wannabes

2008

Booster Gold (2007-) #33 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-) #33

2010

Thanos Loses book cover

Thanos Loses

2020

Justice League 3001 #7 book cover

Justice League 3001 #7

2015

JLA Classified #4 book cover

JLA Classified #4

2005

Blue Beetle (2006-) #9 book cover

Blue Beetle (2006-) #9

2006

I Luv Halloween vol. 2 book cover

I Luv Halloween vol. 2

2006

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #10 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #10

2017

Justice League 3000 #9 book cover

Justice League 3000 #9

2014

Wednesday Comics book cover

Wednesday Comics

2010

JLA Classified #5 book cover

JLA Classified #5

2005

Black Adam Rise and Fall of an Empire book cover

Black Adam Rise and Fall of an Empire

2022

Justice League 3000 #14 book cover

Justice League 3000 #14

2015

Midnighter book cover

Midnighter

The Complete Wildstorm Series

2017

Booster Gold, Vol. 4 book cover

Booster Gold, Vol. 4

Day of Death

2010

Justice League 3001 #3 book cover

Justice League 3001 #3

2015

X-O Manowar (1992-1996) #59 book cover

X-O Manowar (1992-1996) #59

1996

Defenders #4 book cover

Defenders #4

2005

Justice League 3001 #11 book cover

Justice League 3001 #11

2016

Blue Beetle, Vol. 1 book cover

Blue Beetle, Vol. 1

The More Things Change

2017

Blue Beetle (2016-) #9 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #9

2017

The New 52 book cover

The New 52

Futures End (2014-2015) #20

2014

Prólogo book cover

Prólogo

2021

Blue Beetle book cover

Blue Beetle

Jaime Reyes, Book One

2022

Blue Beetle (2016-) #5 book cover

Blue Beetle (2016-) #5

2017

Justice League book cover

Justice League

Generation Lost, Vol. 1

2011

Lobo's Greatest Hits book cover

Lobo's Greatest Hits

1992

O.M.A.C., Volume 1 book cover

O.M.A.C., Volume 1

Omactivate!

2011

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year #10

2010

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #5 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #5

2013

Booster Gold (2007-) #38 book cover

Booster Gold (2007-) #38

2010

Blue Beetle, Vol. 2 book cover

Blue Beetle, Vol. 2

Hard Choices

2018

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #10 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #10

2010

JLA Classified, Vol. 2 book cover

JLA Classified, Vol. 2

I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League

2005

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol 5

2020

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.20

2022

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #7 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #7

2010

Blue Beetle (2006-2009) #19 book cover

Blue Beetle (2006-2009) #19

2007

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 4 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 4

2018

Defenders book cover

Defenders

Indefensible

2006

Drax The Destroyer (2005) #4 book cover

Drax The Destroyer (2005) #4

2005

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #19 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #19

2011

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol. 9

2021

Defenders #5 book cover

Defenders #5

2006

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #3 (Scooby Apocalypse book cover

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #3 (Scooby Apocalypse

2016

The Kamandi Challenge (2017) #8 book cover

The Kamandi Challenge (2017) #8

2017

Justice League America (1987-1996) #41 book cover

Justice League America (1987-1996) #41

1990

Defenders #3 book cover

Defenders #3

2005

Threshold (2013) #6 book cover

Threshold (2013) #6

2013

Threshold (2013) #5 book cover

Threshold (2013) #5

2013

Justice League 3001, Vol. 1 book cover

Justice League 3001, Vol. 1

Déjà Vu All Over Again

2016

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #4 book cover

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #4

2016

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year, Vol. 1

2010

Justice League International Vol. 1 book cover

Justice League International Vol. 1

1987

Lendas do Universo DC book cover

Lendas do Universo DC

Liga da Justiça Vol.4

2019

Star-Lord book cover

Star-Lord

Annihilation - Conquest

2014

Justice League 3000, Vol. 1 book cover

Justice League 3000, Vol. 1

Yesterday Lives

2014

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #4 book cover

Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #4

2004

Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #20

2025

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #294 (Legion of Super-Heroes book cover

Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #294 (Legion of Super-Heroes

1982

DC Universe Presents, Vol. 2 book cover

DC Universe Presents, Vol. 2

Vandal Savage

2013

The Authority book cover

The Authority

The Lost Year (2006-) #3

2010

Blue Beetle (2006-) #5 book cover

Blue Beetle (2006-) #5

2006

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