Tony Isabella, 1,000 COMIC BOOKS YOU MUST READ comic book historian, writer: Mr. Media Radio

Tony Isabella lists 1,000 Comic Books You Must Read for Mr. Media!

About Tony Isabella, by Tony Isabella: “I was born on December 22, 1951, which makes me, among other things, older than Godzilla. I learned to read from comics at the age of four and have never stopped reading them... Clearly, I was on the road to ruin.

“That road led from my then home of Cleveland, Ohio to New York City and a job as an editorial assistant at Marvel Comics. It was the fall of 1972, and, much to my amazement, I found myself working with Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Sol Brodsky, and so many other legendary comics creators that merely listing them would fill this column and allow me to knock off early today. This, my now-less-cute editors inform me, would be a bad idea.

“I created Black Lightning at DC Comics, co-created Tigra for Marvel Comics, developed Jack Kirby's Satan's Six at Topps Comics, and have written for countless other comic-book titles from Amazing Spider-Man to Young Love. Of course, when I say "countless," what I really mean is that I've never counted them. Math confuses and frightens me.

“I was an editor at both Marvel and DC in the 1970s. I owned and operated a comic-book store for over a decade in the 1970s and 1980s. In recent years, working with Bob Ingersoll, I've published two novels: Captain America: Liberty’s Torch and Star Trek: The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse."

His latest book is 1,000 Comic Books You Must Read.