Quick Facts

Full Name	Dan Jurgens
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jun 27, 1959(1959-06-27)
Age	65
Birthplace	Ortonville
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Dan Jurgens Biography

Dan Jurgens is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on June 27, 1959 in Ortonville, California, United States.

After graduating from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1981, Jurgens’ first professional comic work was for DC Comics on The Warlord #63 (Nov. 1982). He was hired due to a recommendation of Warlord creator Mike Grell who was deeply impressed by Jurgens’ work after being shown his private portfolio at a convention. In 1984, Jurgens was the artist for the Sun Devils limited series (July 1984 – June 1985), with writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. Jurgens would make his debut as a comic book writer with Sun Devils. He began scripting from Conway’s plots with #8 (Feb. 1985) and fully took over the writing duties on the title with #10 (April 1985). In 1985, Jurgens created the character Booster Gold, who became a member of the Justice League. Jurgens was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. His first work on Superman was as penciller for The Adventures of Superman Annual

1 (1987). In 1988, Jurgens provided pencil art for the Deadman short stories

which were written by Mike Baron in the short-lived anthology Action Comics Weekly from issues #601–612. He then had a run as artist of Green Arrow with writer Mike Grell from 1988–1990. In 1989, Jurgens began working full-time on the Superman character when he took over the writing/pencilling of the monthly The Adventures of Superman.

Jurgens was the penciller of the 1991 limited series Armageddon 2001 and co- created the hero Waverider with Archie Goodwin. Jurgens helped writer Louise Simonson and artist Jon Bogdanove launch a new Superman title, Superman: The Man of Steel in July 1991 and assumed the writing/pencilling of the main Superman comic book with issue No. 57 (July 1991). He created a supporting hero named Agent Liberty in issue No. 60 (Oct. 1991) and then worked on the “Panic in the Sky” crossover in 1992. During his run on Superman, Jurgens created two major villains, Doomsday and the Cyborg Superman. Doomsday was the main antagonist in “The Death of Superman” storyline which saw the iconic hero killed in an issue consisting entirely of splash pages. The Cyborg Superman was an existing character which Jurgens reintroduced in The Adventures of Superman #500 for the “Reign of the Supermen” storyline. Jurgens wrote and drew Justice League America (#61–77 April 1992 – July 1993) and in 1993 pencilled the Metal Men four-issue miniseries, which was a retcon of their origin story. Jurgens wrote and pencilled the crossover series Zero Hour. and the Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey miniseries, both in 1994.

Dan Jurgens Net Worth

Dan Jurgens is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dan Jurgens 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dan Jurgens (/ˈ dʒ ɜːr ɡ ə n z / ; born June 27, 1959) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline “The Death of Superman” and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years.

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Jurgens was amongst the creative talent of DC Comics’ The New 52 relaunch in 2011, becoming the writer of the new Justice League International series with artist Aaron Lopresti and the artist of the new Green Arrow series with writer J. T. Krul and inker George Pérez. He became co-writer of Green Arrow with Keith Giffen on issues #3–6. DC announced in October 2011 that Jurgens would return to Superman, co-writing and drawing, the self-titled Superman series with Giffen. Their first issue was #7 (cover dated May 2012). During 2012–2013, Jurgens was writer and artist of Fury of the Firestorms: The Nuclear Men from issues #13–20, where the series was canceled. In 2014, he and Giffen together with Jeff Lemire and Brian Azzarello co-wrote The New 52: Futures End. In 2015, Jurgens became the writer for Batman Beyond, starting with issue #1 in June 2015. He was writer of the two-issue miniseries Convergence: Superman in 2015, and was the writer for Superman: Lois and Clark from 2015 to 2016. As part of the DC Rebirth relaunch of 2016, Jurgens wrote Action Comics, with the series returning to the previous numbering, beginning with issue #957. He contributed to Action Comics #1000 (June 2018) and then became the writer of the Green Lanterns series.

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