How many people can say they’ve edited, written, and even colored comics? Louise Simonson can. Since starting her career as an editor for Creepy and Vampirella in the 1970s, Simonson brought her talents to Marvel Comics to edit Uncanny X-Men, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones.

In 1984 she co-created Power Pack with June Brigman and wrote for Web of Spider-Man and Red Sonja, as well as other titles. In the early ’90s, Simonson moved to DC Comics to create the title she would write for eight years. – Superman: Man of Steel. During this time, she also contributed to the Man of Steel’s demise in the mega-crossover-event “The Death of Superman.”

Not content to only write for comics, Simonson has also written novels, some of which feature popular DC characters.

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