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
2016
Booster Gold (2007-) #37
2010
Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #1 (Scooby Apocalypse
2016
Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #291 (Legion of Super-Heroes
1982
Booster Gold (2007-2011) #40
2011
Green Arrow, Volume 1
The Midas Touch
2012
Savage Dragon
Team-Ups
1999
The Authority
The Lost Year (2006-2010) #6
2010
DC Comics Presents
Metal Men #1
2011
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.12
2021
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol. 10
2021
Justice League 3000 #10
2014
Justice League 3000 #13
2015
Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special (1991) #1
1991
Marvel Limited Edition
Supervillanos Unidos
2015
Anihilacija, tom 2
2007
Justice League 3001 #10
2016
Booster Gold (2007-) #32
2013
Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 1
2017
Justice League 3000 #8
2014
Booster Gold (2007-) #35
2010
Blue Beetle (2016-) #6
2017
Justice League International Vol. 4 (Justice League of America
1989
Threshold (2013) #8
2013
Blue Beetle (2016-) #7
2017
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #15
2010
Spider-Man
Amazing Friends
2009
Justice League 3001 #12
2016
Lavkraft
2003
Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 5
2019
Justice League 3001 #5
2015
Justice League 3001 #2
2015
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #1
2009
Threshold (2013) #3
2013
Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #304 (Legion of Super-Heroes
1983
Justice League International, Vol. 3
1989
Justice League 3000 #15
2015
Drax The Destroyer (2005) #3
2005
Justice League 3001, Vol. 2
Things Fall Apart
2016
Blue Beetle, Vol. 2
Road Trip
2007
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #2
2009
Secret Origins (1986-1990) #35
1988
Booster Gold (2007-2011) #42
2011
Justice League International Vol. 6 (Justice League of America
1990
Justice League 3001 #6
2015
Blue Beetle (2016-) #4
2016
Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 6
2019
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.14
2021
Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #13
2017
The Authority
The Lost Year (2006-2010) #5
2010
Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 2
2017
Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 3
2018
Green Arrow (2011-2016) #5
2012
Heraldos de Galactus
2021
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol. 8
2021
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.18
2022
Defenders #1
2005
The Authority
The Lost Year (2006-2010) #4
2010
Justice League 3001 #8
2016
Doom Patrol, Vol. 1
We Who Are About to Die
2010
Drax The Destroyer (2005) #2
2005
Justice League 3001 #9
2016
DC House of Horror #1
2017
Threshold (2013) #7
2013
Justice League 3001 #4
1987
Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 1
An Eye for an Eye
2007
Justice League International, Vol. 2
1988
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol. 13
2021
El Tigre Blanco
2018
Annihilation
Silver Surfer #1
2005
Secret Origins (1986-1990) #48
1990
Lobo
El Regreso
2015
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #21
2011
The Authority
The Lost Year, Vol. 2
2011
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #13
2010
Threshold (2013) #4
2013
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #17
2010
The Authority
The Lost Year #7
2010
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.16
2022
Midnighter (2006-2008) #16
2008
Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #11
2017
Annihilation #4
2006
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #3
2009
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.21
2022
Justice League 3000 #11
2014
Blue Beetle (2016-) #1
2016
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.15
2022
Looney Tunes (1994-) #83
2001
Threshold, Vol. 1
The Hunted
2014
Blue Beetle (2016-) #8
2017
Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Superheroes
1991
Booster Gold (2007-2011) #20
2009
Justice League 3001 #1
2015
SuperPatriot
1993
Larfleeze, Vol. 1
Revolt of the Orange Lanterns
2014
Annihilation
Prologue #1
2006
Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #12
2017
Justice League Unlimited #43
Wannabes
2008
Booster Gold (2007-) #33
2010
Thanos Loses
2020
Justice League 3001 #7
2015
JLA Classified #4
2005
Blue Beetle (2006-) #9
2006
I Luv Halloween vol. 2
2006
Blue Beetle (2016-2018) #10
2017
Justice League 3000 #9
2014
Wednesday Comics
2010
JLA Classified #5
2005
Black Adam Rise and Fall of an Empire
2022
Justice League 3000 #14
2015
Midnighter
The Complete Wildstorm Series
2017
Booster Gold, Vol. 4
Day of Death
2010
Justice League 3001 #3
2015
X-O Manowar (1992-1996) #59
1996
Defenders #4
2005
Justice League 3001 #11
2016
Blue Beetle, Vol. 1
The More Things Change
2017
Blue Beetle (2016-) #9
2017
The New 52
Futures End (2014-2015) #20
2014
Prólogo
2021
Blue Beetle
Jaime Reyes, Book One
2022
Blue Beetle (2016-) #5
2017
Justice League
Generation Lost, Vol. 1
2011
Lobo's Greatest Hits
1992
O.M.A.C., Volume 1
Omactivate!
2011
The Authority
The Lost Year #10
2010
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #5
2013
Booster Gold (2007-) #38
2010
Blue Beetle, Vol. 2
Hard Choices
2018
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #10
2010
JLA Classified, Vol. 2
I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League
2005
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol 5
2020
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.20
2022
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #7
2010
Blue Beetle (2006-2009) #19
2007
Scooby Apocalypse, Vol. 4
2018
Defenders
Indefensible
2006
Drax The Destroyer (2005) #4
2005
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #19
2011
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol. 9
2021
Defenders #5
2006
Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #3 (Scooby Apocalypse
2016
The Kamandi Challenge (2017) #8
2017
Justice League America (1987-1996) #41
1990
Defenders #3
2005
Threshold (2013) #6
2013
Threshold (2013) #5
2013
Justice League 3001, Vol. 1
Déjà Vu All Over Again
2016
Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #4
2016
The Authority
The Lost Year, Vol. 1
2010
Justice League International Vol. 1
1987
Lendas do Universo DC
Liga da Justiça Vol.4
2019
Star-Lord
Annihilation - Conquest
2014
Justice League 3000, Vol. 1
Yesterday Lives
2014
Doom Patrol (2009-2011) #4
2004
Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #20
2025
Legion of Super-Heroes (1980-1985) #294 (Legion of Super-Heroes
1982
DC Universe Presents, Vol. 2
Vandal Savage
2013
The Authority
The Lost Year (2006-) #3
2010
Blue Beetle (2006-) #5
2006
