Ben Raab
Benjamin Raab (born October 13, 1970 in New York City, New York) is an American TV-writer, producer, comic book writer and editor. He has written stories for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, WildStorm, Moonstone Books, Malibu Comics, Harris Publications and Ludovico Technique LLC.
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Born | Benjamin Raab October 13, 1970 New York City, New York |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Writer, Editor |
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Early life
Raab is a native of Cedarhurst, New York, and attended Lawrence High School. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Composition.
Career
While an assistant editor at Marvel he joined New York University's Stan-hattan Project. Administered by Raab's then Marvel editorial colleague James Felder, the project sought out and trained potential comic book writers.
Written work by Raab includes stints writing The Phantom (both for Moonstone Books and Scandinavian publisher Egmont), Excalibur (vol. 1 and 2), New Mutants: Truth or Death, Union Jack with artist John Cassaday and X-Men/Alpha Flight (vol. 2) for Marvel Comics. He also had a run on Green Lantern as well as the miniseries' The Human Race and Legend of The Hawkman for DC Comics. For Ludovico Technique he co-wrote, along with Deric A. Hughes, the four issue series Living in Infamy.
In 2006, Raab wrote the 96-page graphic novel The Phantom: Legacy, which retold that character's origin.
In 2009, Raab would return to The Phantom, serving as editor for The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks series by Moonstone Books.
Television
Raab, with his writing partner Deric A. Hughes, were staff writers on Warehouse 13 writing their first episode "Duped" which aired August 25, 2009. They penned seven episodes over the 5 season run, working their way up to Producers on the final season. In 2015 Raab and Hughes joined Beauty & The Beast as Supervising Producers penning four episodes of the show. Following the series conclusion they contributed to the 2016-2017 season of The Flash writing the episode "King Shark", before joining Season 3 as Co-Executive producers and writers. The duo did not return for the fourth season of The Flash, instead joining the writing team of the third season of Scream and joined the final season of Arrow as writers and producers.
Bibliography
- Excalibur volume 1 #106-125 & #-1
- X-Men Unlimited #19 (set after Excalibur #112)
- Colossus oneshot (set after Excalibur #113)
- New Mutants: Truth or Death limited series #1–3 (set after Excalibur #113)
- Excalibur volume 2 #1-4
- Fantastic Four 2099 #6–8
- JLA: Shogun of Steel
- Crytopia[1]
References
- (6/28/2018), "Comics Professor By Day, Comics Creator By Night: PATRICK QUINN," Newsarama. Retrieved August 29, 2018
- Ben Raab at the Grand Comics Database
External links
- Official website
- Ben Raab at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Ben Raab on Marvel.com
- Interview with Raab at Deepwoods.org
- Small Town Villains: Ben Raab Talks Living in Infamy
Preceded by Warren Ellis |
Excalibur writer 1997–1998 |
Succeeded by None |
Preceded by Judd Winick |
Green Lantern writer 2003–2004 |
Succeeded by Ron Marz |
Preceded by Brian K. Vaughan |
Wonder Woman writer 2000–2000 |
Succeeded by Phil Jimenez |