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StarsAndGarters
03-08-2005, 02:04 PM
Is the Gerry Conway that writes for Law & Order the same guy that penned Amazing in the early 70's?
Rich L
03-08-2005, 02:09 PM
Yep, I think so.
StarsAndGarters
03-08-2005, 02:14 PM
Yep, I think so.That's pretty cool. I was watching Law & Order (which is surprising since I don't really like procedural cop shows) and I saw his name in the credits at the end as writer and one of the producers. I wonder how he got there? Did he stop writing comics at some point?
ACK!
03-10-2005, 06:24 PM
It is indeed '70s (and late '80s) Spidey scripter Gerry Conway who is now a supervising producer and writer for Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Gerry's first foray into Hollywood was co-writing an early draft of the Conan The Destroyer movie with former Conan comic book scribe Roy Thomas. He left comics in the early '90s and began persuing a career as a screenwriter.

He also penned a couple of episodes of the mid'-'90s Spider-Man animated series.

I go back a long way with Gerry (as a fan) - as the first issue of Amazing Spider-Man I ever bought was issue #140 in 1974 (yes, I'm old), the second part of a Jackal two-parter and the story that began the original and only worthwhile "Clone Saga".
DavidQ!
03-10-2005, 06:31 PM
wasnt stracyznki (JMS) not sure how to spell his last name. He used to do TV stuff too. Many Cartoons.
SUPERECWFAN1
03-10-2005, 07:09 PM
Yes JMS has done work on He-Man & the Masters of the Universe cartoon as well as many other shows from then. He's also did Babylon 5 too.
Rich L
03-11-2005, 12:07 AM
It is indeed '70s (and late '80s) Spidey scripter Gerry Conway who is now a supervising producer and writer for Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Gerry's first foray into Hollywood was co-writing an early draft of the Conan The Destroyer movie with former Conan comic book scribe Roy Thomas. He left comics in the early '90s and began persuing a career as a screenwriter.

He also penned a couple of episodes of the mid'-'90s Spider-Man animated series.

I go back a long way with Gerry (as a fan) - as the first issue of Amazing Spider-Man I ever bought was issue #140 in 1974 (yes, I'm old), the second part of a Jackal two-parter and the story that began the original and only worthwhile "Clone Saga".

You have much knowledge!
StarsAndGarters
03-17-2005, 01:59 PM
Gerry Conway's done a ton of tv writing...

http://imdb.com/name/nm0176689

I thought he was older than that.Wow you're right. He's a couple months younger than my dad!

Woohoo! He worked on Transformers!
Slam_Bradley
03-17-2005, 02:06 PM
Gerry Conway's done a ton of tv writing...

http://imdb.com/name/nm0176689

I thought he was older than that.


Conway was one of the first wave of fans to make the move to producing comics. He was very young when he got his start.
StarsAndGarters
03-17-2005, 02:19 PM
Conway was one of the first wave of fans to make the move to producing comics. He was very young when he got his start.Really? Are there still fans that make the jump? I myself aspire to writing comics one day.
ACK!
03-17-2005, 03:37 PM
For anyone who's interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff like me, there's a great book called Comics Creators On Spider-Man by former Marvel Editor-In-Chief and Amazing Spider-Man writer Tom DeFalco.

He interviews many of the great writers and artists who've chronicled the web-slinger's exploits, among them Stan Lee, Gerry Conway, Sal Buscema, Todd McFarlane, J.M. DeMatteis and Ron Frenz.

Guys like Len Wein, Conway and Marv Wolfman were all teenage fans who through "obnoxious persistence" (Conway's term), found their way into writing and editing comics as a career.

The interviews are extensive and shed a lot of light on the goings-on at Marvel from the sixties to the present day.

I haven't seen this book in stores, but it can be ordered through amazon for a reasonable price.