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CAREER Marvel Comics He began as an editorial assistant at Marvel Comics in 1972 . At Marvel, he wrote '' Ghost Rider '', It, The Living Colossus in '' Astonishing Tales '', Luke Cage in '' Hero For Hire '' and '' Power Man '', Tigra in '' Marvel Chillers '', '' The Champions '', and '' Captain America ''. He also served as editor of Marvel's black and white magazine line for a time. DC Comics For DC Comics , he worked as a writer and story editor. In addition to two runs on '' Black Lightning '' (one in the 1970s, the other in the 1990s), in the 1980s he revamped Hawkman and Hawkwoman with artist Richard Howell in the mini-series '' Shadow War Of Hawkman ''. The mini-series led to a regular series which he initially wrote. Other Work He is the co-author (with his fellow Comic Buyer's Guide columnist : The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse (A Sam Cogley Mystery)'' (2003, ISBN 0-7434-6497-4). He writes a regular column for the '' Comics Buyer's Guide '', called ''Tony's Tips''. This has resulted in a regular (and, given the different demands of the medium, much more frequent) online column/ Blog called ''Tony's Online Tips''. He has also recently worked on translating foreign language Disney comics and revamping the wording for the US such as "Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #354". Also, he has recently announced on his column that he plans on doing new comic book work. He has said that he will work on comics for Heroic Publishing , probably working on that company's superheroine Tigress (not to be confused with the Marvel superheroine Tigra mentioned above or the DC characters). CHRISTIAN-THEMED STORY ARC Tony Isabella had written at one time a story arc in Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) where Johnny Blaze became a Christian , and in doing so, freed himself of the curse. Isabella said in May 2007, "I’d written a story wherein, couched in mildly subtle terms, Blaze accepted Jesus as his savior and freed himself from Satan’s power forever." CCM sightings said on the subject, "According to Isabella’s account, the story arc took two years to unfold, and was approved by several editors. But when the story reached the big twist -- and a certain mysterious drifter was going to be revealed as Jesus Christ -- an assistant editor 'took offense' and intercepted the issue right as it was about to go to the printer and completely rewrote the story." Isabella says, "To this day, I consider what he did to my story one of the three most arrogant and wrong-headed actions I’ve ever seen from an editor." {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS |
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