Gary Friedrich at the April 2008 New York Comic Con
Born
(1943-08-21)August 21, 1943 Jackson, Missouri, U.S.
Died
August 29, 2018(2018-08-29) (aged 75) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Area(s)
Writer
Notable works
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, The Monster of Frankenstein, Ghost Rider
Awards
Shared Alley Award for Sgt. Fury as Best War Title (1967 and 1968) Inkpot Award (2007) Bill Finger Award (2010)
Gary Friedrich (/ˈfriːdrɪk/; August 21, 1943 – August 29, 2018) was an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos and in the following era, the series The Monster of Frankenstein, as well as for cocreating the supernatural motorcyclist Ghost Rider and the supernatural hero the Son of Satan.
Friedrich – no relation to fellow comics writer Mike Friedrich – was the first successful new writer brought into the burgeoning 1960s Marvel after fellow Missourian Roy Thomas. Succeeding Thomas on Sgt. Fury, Friedrich and the art team of Dick Ayers and John Severin produced a World War II series for the Vietnam years, combining militaristic camaraderie and gung ho humor with a regretful sense of war as a terrible last resort. The humanistic military drama was noted for its semi-anthological "The" stories, such as "The Medic" and "The Deserter".
Friedrich went on to write a smattering of superhero stories for Marvel, Atlas/Seaboard Comics and Topps Comics, and eventually left the comics industry. In 2011, he lost a federal lawsuit over a claim of ownership in the character Ghost Rider, but in July 2014, three months after an appellate court reversed that decision, the parties said they had reached a settlement.
GaryFriedrich (/ˈfriːdrɪk/; August 21, 1943 – August 29, 2018) was an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics'...
#5 (Aug. 1972), created by Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas, writer GaryFriedrich and artist Mike Ploog. He received his own series in 1973, with penciller...
Western features as "Gunhawk" and "Renegades", by writers including GaryFriedrich and Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, and artists including Dick Ayers...
1967), by plotter and original Ghost Rider artist Ayers, and writers GaryFriedrich and Roy Thomas. In an interview, Ayers recalled how the character was...
appeared as a back-up feature in Captain Atom #83 (November 1966), with GaryFriedrich scripting from Ditko's conception and plot. Ted Kord was a genius-level...
GaryFriedrich and artist Mike Ploog. He first appears in Marvel Spotlight #5 (August 1972). He was created by writers Roy Thomas and GaryFriedrich and...
generation of talent had entered the field, including writers Denny O'Neil, GaryFriedrich, Roy Thomas, and Archie Goodwin, and artists such as Neal Adams, Herb...
idea, and GaryFriedrich and Herb Trimpe were assigned the task of designing the character. However, Trimpe denies this, claiming Friedrich alone designed...
in Gilbert (2008), p. 156: "Co-created by editor Roy Thomas, writer GaryFriedrich, and artist Mike Ploog, the new Ghost Rider was Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle...
Werner Roth The X-Men #28 Hamilton Slade Phantom Rider 1967 (February) GaryFriedrich, Dick Ayers, Roy Thomas Ghost Rider vol 1 #1 Alexi Shostakov Currently:...
switched to Captain Savage and his Battlefield Raiders. Created by GaryFriedrich and Dick Ayers, the book was a spin-off of the series Sgt. Fury and...
with the editor. Trimpe recalled that Claremont and his replacement, GaryFriedrich, while "miles apart in personality and approach to a story", were both...
the character Ghost Rider was filed on March 30, 2007, by GaryFriedrich and GaryFriedrich Enterprises, Inc. On August 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company...
dialogue. It was just black-and-white. Other people like Denny O'Neil and GaryFriedrich took it. But soon afterwards we stopped using it." The day after taking...
Everett Glenn Fabry Vincent Fago Danny Fingeroth Linda Fite GaryFriedrich Mike Friedrich Al Gabriele Neil Gaiman David Gallaher Steve Gerber Frank Giacoia...
Captain Britain Weekly #19 (February 16, 1977) and was created by writer GaryFriedrich and artist Herb Trimpe. Hunter is a Royal Navy Commander who became...
1969), with a 14th issue published in 2017. Editors Roy Thomas and GaryFriedrich pitched a comics series that would poke fun of other companies' characters...
lackluster character — called Stunt-Master ... a motorcyclist. Anyway, when GaryFriedrich started writing Daredevil, he said, 'Instead of Stunt-Master, I'd like...
second Phantom Eagle was an unrelated World War I hero created by writer GaryFriedrich and artist Herb Trimpe in Marvel Super-Heroes #16 (September 1968)....
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