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Shane McCarthy
Born (1975-07-24) 24 July 1975 (age 48)
NationalityAustralian
Area(s)Writer
http://www.mccarthyshane.com

Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.

Career

A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.[1]

Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.

McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing.[2] He is the creator of the character Drift.

His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.

McCarthy formerly ran a swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia.[3]

Bibliography

Transformers for IDW Publishing

Batman for DC Comics

Others:

References

  1. ^ Silver Bullet Comic Books Line of Fire Reviews 6 February 2006 Archived 23 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Shane McCarthy personal website
  3. ^ Swing It!: About Us / Teachers
  4. ^ "Comic Books Database: Detective Comics" #797 Archived 20 January 2013 at archive.today
  5. ^ IDW Publishing: IDW Titles Archived 18 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine

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