Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer is a comic book writer known for his creator-owned titles at Image Comics, including Morning Glories, Thief of Thieves, Bedlam, The Fix; for his work on such DC Comics books as Action Comics, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and for his Marvel Comics on the series Secret Avengers, Superior Foes of Spider-Man, Avengers World, Ant-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, as well as his controversial run on Captain America that culminated in the 2017 event comic Secret Empire

Nick Spencer
Spencer at a signing at Midtown Comics in Manhattan
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Morning Glories Thief of Thieves T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Iron Man 2.0 Secret Avengers The Amazing Spider-Man Superior Foes of Spider-Man Captain America: Steve Rogers Secret Empire

Career

While in college, Spencer wrote three pitches to Marvel Comics soon after the Marvel Knights imprint launched in 1998. According to Spencer, "Joe [Quesada] didn’t like the first two but the third one was a Black Cat pitch that was a Jackie Brown kind of Tarantino-esque thing. He said he liked that one but they weren’t going to do anything with anybody new at the time." After another pitch was rejected, this time by Oni Press, Spencer went on to work in politics. He twice ran for the Cincinnati City Council as a candidate of the progressive Charter Party. Spencer also worked for a Democratic politician.[1] He later moved to New York City and successfully pitched Existence 2.0 to Jim Valentino of Image Comics. The first issue was released in July 2009.[2] A second miniseries, Existence 3.0, followed in November.[3] In 2010, Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to Existence 2.0, and a film was in development through Platinum Dunes with Miles Millar and Alfred Gough to adapt and executive produce.[4] Spencer also wrote Forgetless and Shuddertown at Image.[5] An A.V. Club review of Shuddertown stated that Spencer "has become one of the finest practitioners" of crime noir in comics.[6]

Spencer's first ongoing series, Morning Glories, was released in August 2010, that same year, he wrote a seven-part Jimmy Olsen co-feature for DC Comics beginning in September's Action Comics #893, which concluded in a one-shot[7] (released March 30, 2011), and a T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents monthly series that debuted that November.[5]

In 2011 he took over as the writer of Supergirl in January with issue #60,[8] but DC announced two months later that he would only be co-scripting one issue.[9] Spencer wrote Iron Man 2.0, a War Machine ongoing series for Marvel Comics which debuted that February.[10] He also took over writing duties on Secret Avengers from Ed Brubaker with issue #13.[11] It was announced at the 2011 Emerald City Comic Con that Spencer had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, one that would allow him to continue writing his existing titles at both DC and Image.[12]

In 2011 Spencer was one of three writers that worked on Ultimate Comics Universe Reborn, a relaunch of Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel line, along with Jonathan Hickman and Brian Michael Bendis. Spencer wrote Ultimate Comics X-Men.[13]

In 2016 he become the writer of the ongoing series Captain America:Steve Rogers, in which Captain America has been replaced by a version of himself loyal to Hydra. In 2017, Spencer wrote the miniseries Secret Empire.

In March 2018, it was announced that Spencer would be writing a relaunched Amazing Spider-Man series that would premiere that year, replacing long-time writer Dan Slott, as part of the Fresh Start relaunch that July.[14]

Bibliography

Image Comics

• Existence 2.0/3.0 #1–3, #1–4 (with Joe Eisma, 2009–2010) collected as Existence 2.0/3.0 (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6299-2)
• Forgetless #1–5 (with Scott Forbes, Jorge Coelho and Marley Zarcone, 2009–2010) collected as Forgetless (tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6361-1)
• Shuddertown #1–4 (with Adam Geen, 2010) collected as Shuddertown (hc, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6943-1)
• Fractured Fables: Cinderella (with Rodin Esquejo, 2010) collected in Fractured Fables (hc, 160 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6269-0; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6496-0)
• Morning Glories (with Joe Eisma, 2010–present) collected as:
  • For a Better Future (collects #1–6, tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-307-7)
  • All Will Be Free (collects #7–12, tpb, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-407-3)
  • P.E. (collects #13–19, tpb, 240 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-60706-558-4)
  • Truants (collects #20–25, tpb, 216 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-727-7)
  • Tests (collects #26–29, tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-774-9)
  • Demerits (collects #30–34, tpb, 144 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-60706-774-9)
  • Honors (collects #35–38, tpb, 124 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6070-6943-1)
  • Rivals (collects #39–42, tpb, 120 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-63215-140-5)
  • Assembly (collects #43–46, tpb, 104 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-63215-560-5)
  • Expulsion (collects #47–50, tpb, 136 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-63215-732-2)
• Infinite Vacation #1–5 (with Christian Ward, 2011–2013) collected as Infinite Vacation (hc, 191 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6721-8)
• Thief of Thieves (with Robert Kirkman and Shawn Martinbrough, 2012) collected as:
  • I Quit (collects #1–7, 152 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6592-4)
• Bedlam (with Riley Rossmo and Ryan Browne, 2012–present) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (collects #1–6, tpb, 184 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6735-8)
  • Volume 2 (collects #7–11, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6070-6846-X)
• The Fix (with Steve Lieber, April 2016–present)
  • Where Beagles Dare (collects #1–4, tpb, 2016, ISBN 1-6321-5912-0)
  • Laws, Paws, and Flaws (collects #5–8, tpb, 2017, ISBN 1-5343-0048-1)
  • Deal of Fortune (collects #9-12, tpb, 2018)

DC Comics

• Superman
  • Action Comics #893–896: "Jimmy Olsen" (with RB Silva, 2010) collected as Jimmy Olsen (one-shot, 71 pages, 2011)
  • Supergirl #60 (with James Peaty and Bernard Chang, 2011) collected in Volume 10: Good Looking Corpse (tpb, 176 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3252-3)
• T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (with CAFU, Howard Porter, Adriana Melo, Livesay, Norman Lee, Howard Chaykin and George Pérez, 2010–2012) collected as:
  • Volume 1 (collects v1 #1–10, tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3254-X)
  • Volume 2 (collects v2 #1–6)

Marvel Comics

• Iron Man 2.0 #1–12 (February 2011 – December 2011)
  • Palmer Addley is Dead (tpb, 176 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4749-7) collects:
    • "Palmer Addley is Dead" (with Barry Kitson and Ariel Olivetti, in #1–4, 2011)
    • "Fear Itself!" (with Ariel Olivetti, Carmine Di Giandomenico and Matthew Wilson in #5–7, 2011)
  • Asymmetry (tpb, 128 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4751-9) collects:
    • "Untitled" (with Kano, in #7.1, 2011)
    • The Palmer Addley Infection" (with Joshua Hale Fialkov, Will Pfeifer, Ariel Olivetti, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Mirco Pierfederici, Neil Edwards and Jesus Aburtov, in #8–12, 2011)
• Avengers
  • Secret Avengers vol. 1 #12.1–15 (April 2011 – July 2011)
    • Fear Itself (tpb, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5178-8) collects:
      • "Untitled" (with Scott Eaton, in #12.1, 2011)
      • "Fear Itself" (with Scot Eaton, in #13–15, 2011)
  • Secret Avengers vol. 2 #1–16 (February 2013 – February 2014)
    • Volume 1: Reverie (tpb, 120 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6688-2) collects:
      • "NYSE" (with Luke Ross, in Marvel NOW! Point One, 2012)
      • "Budapest" (with Luke Ross, in #1, 2013)
      • "Bagalia" (with Luke Ross, in #2, 2013)
      • "Arlington" (with Luke Ross, in #3, 2013)
      • "Tehran" (with Luke Ross, in #4, 2013)
      • "Barbuda" (with Luke Ross, in #5, 2013)
    • Volume 2: Iliad (tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6689-0) collects:
      • "Iliad" (with Butch Guice, Steve Epting and Brian Thies, in #6–7, 2013)
      • "The Cathedral" (with Luke Ross, in #8, 2013)
      • "Lexington" (with Butch Guice, in #9, 2013)
      • "Infinity" (written by Ed Brisson and drawn by Luke Ross, in #10–11, 2013)
    • Volume 3: How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird (tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8482-1) collects:
      • "How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird" (with Ales Kot, Butch Guice and Luke Ross, in #12–16, 2013–2014)
  • Avengers vol. 5 #12–17 (May 2013 – August 2013)
    • Volume 3: Prelude to Infinity (hc, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6825-7)
      • "Evolve" (with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato, in #12, 2013)
      • "Strong" (with Jonathan Hickman and Mike Deodato, in #13, 2013)
      • "The Signal" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #14, 2013)
      • "Sent and Received" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #15, 2013)
      • "To The End" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, in #16, 2013)
      • "... To the Light" (with Jonathan Hickman and Stefano Caselli, Marco Rudy and Marco Checchetto, in #17, 2013)
  • Avengers World #1–16 (with Jonathan Hickman, Stefano Caselli, Marco Checchetto, Raffaele Ienco and Frank Barbiere, January 2014 – December 2014)
    • Volume 1: A.I.M.PIRE (collects #1–5, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8981-5)
    • Volume 2: Ascension (collects #6–9, tpb, 120 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-9094-5)
    • Volume 3: Next World (collects #10–16, tpb, 160 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9251-4)
• Ultimate Comics: Fallout #2–6 (with Lee Garbett, Eric Nguyen, Clayton Crain and Luke Ross, 2011) collected as Ultimate Comics: Fallout (hc, 136 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5912-6; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-5913-4)
• Ultimate Comics: X-Men #1–12 (with Paco Medina and Carlo Barberi, 2011–2012)
  • Volume 1 (collects #1–6, tpb, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4102-2)
  • Volume 2 (collects #7–12, tpb, 136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6134-1)
• Spider-Man
  • The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 #1– (with Ryan Ottley, 2018-)

collected in

• The Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 1 (tpb, 152 pages, 2018, ISBN 978-1302912314)
• The Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 2 (tpb, 120 pages, 2019, ISBN 978-1302912321)
• The Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 3 (tpb, 112 pages, 2019, ISBN 978-1302914332)
• The Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 4 (tpb, 112 pages, 2019, ISBN 978-1302914349)
• The Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 5 (tpb, 112 pages, 2019, ISBN 978-1302914356)
  • Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1–3 (with Emma Rios, 2011) collected in Spider-Man: Spider-Island Companion (tpb, 360 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6229-1)
  • Superior Foes of Spider-Man #1–17 (with Steve Lieber, Rich Ellis and other artists, July 2013 – November 2014)
    • Getting the Band Back Together (collects #1–6, tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8494-5)
    • The Crime of the Century (collects #7–12, tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8495-3)
    • Game Over (collects #13–17, tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9170-4)
• Ant-Man
  • Ant-Man #1–5 (January 2015 – May 2015)
    • Volume 1: Second-Chance Man (tpb, 120 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9387-1) collects:
      • "Second-Chance Man" (with Ramón Rosanas, in #1–5, 2015)
  • Astonishing Ant-Man #1–13 (with Ramón Rosanas, October 2015 – October 2016)
    • Volume 1: Everybody Loves Team-Ups (tpb, 144 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9948-9) collects:
      • "Ant-Man Annual" #1 (with Ramón Rosanas and Brent Schoonover, July 2015)
      • "Ant-Man: Last Days" (with Ramón Rosanas, August 2015)
      • #1–4 (with Ramón Rosanas, 2015–2016)
    • Volume 2: Small-Time Criminal #5–9 (with Ramón Rosanas, Annapaola Martello and Brent Schoonover, tpb, 112 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9949-7)
    • Volume 3: The Trial of Ant-Man #10–13 (with Ramón Rosanas and Brent Schoonover, tpb, 120 pages, 2017, ISBN 0-7851-9952-7)
• Captain America
  • Captain America: Sam Wilson #1–24 (October 2015 – July 2017)
    • Volume 1: Not My Captain America #1–6 (with Daniel Acuña, Mike Choi, Paul Renaud and Joe Bennett, tpb, 136 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9640-4)
    • Avengers: Standoff! (hc, 416 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-3029-0147-8) collects:
      • "Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill" (with Mark Bagley, 2016)
      • "Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Alpha" (with Jesús Saiz, 2016)
      • #7–8 (with Daniel Acuña, Ángel Unzueta and Paul Renaud, 2016)
      • "Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Omega" (with Daniel Acuña and Ángel Unzueta, 2016)
    • Volume 3: Civil War II #9–13 (with Ángel Unzueta and Daniel Acuña, tpb, 112 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0319-5)
    • Volume 4: #TakeBackTheShield #14–18 (with Paul Renaud, Ángel Unzueta, Szymon Kudranski and Daniel Acuña, tpb, 136 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0329-2)
    • Volume 5: End of the Line #19–21 (with Ángel Unzueta, Paul Renaud and Daniel Acuña, tpb, 112 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0614-3)
    • Captain America: Secret Empire #22–24 (Sean Izaakse, Joe Bennett and Donny Cates, tpb, 136 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0849-9)
  • Captain America: Steve Rogers #1–19 (May 2016 – July 2017)
    • Volume 1: Hail Hydra #1–6 (with Jesús Saiz and Javier Pina, tpb, 168 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-3029-0112-5)
    • Volume 2: The Trial of Maria Hill #7–11 (with Jesús Saiz, Javier Pina, Andrés Guinaldo, Ro Stein and Kevin Libranda, tpb, 120 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0113-3)
    • Volume 3: Empire Building #12–16 (with Javier Pina, Andrés Guinaldo, Ro Stein, Jesús Saiz, Kevin Libranda, Yıldıray Çınar and Jon Malin, tpb, 152 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0616-X)
    • Captain America: Secret Empire #22–24 (Andrés Guinaldo, Ramón Bachs, Javier Pina and Donny Cates, tpb, 136 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0849-9)
  • Captain America vol. 8 #25 (with Jesús Saiz and Paul Renaud, August 2017)
  • Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America #1 (with Paul Renaud, September 2017) collected in Generations (hc, 328 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0847-2)
• Civil War II: The Oath #1 (January 2017) collected in Volume 2: The Trial of Maria Hill, tpb, 120 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0113-3)
• Secret Empire #0–10, Omega (with Daniel Acuña, Rod Reis, Andrea Sorrentino, Steven McNiven, Leinil Francis Yu, Joshua Cassara, Sean Izaakse, Joe Bennett, David Marquez, Ron Lim and Paco Medina, April–September 2017, hc, 432 pages, 2017, ISBN 0-7851-9452-5)
• Not Brand Echh vol. 1 #14 (with Scott Koblish, November 2017)
• Doctor Strange: Damnation #1-4 (with Donny Cates, Rod Reis, February 2018 - March 2018)

References

Inline citations

1. Rich Johnston (October 13, 2010). "Nick Spencer – Politics, Business… Oh, And Comics Too". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
2. Callan, Jonathan (June 15, 2009). "Image's New "Existence"". CBR.com. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
3. Wigler, Josh (October 29, 2009). "Nick Spencer's 'Existence 3.0'". CBR.com. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
4. Nemiroff, Perri (March 16, 2010). "Paramount To Adapt The Comic Existence 2.0". Cinema Blend. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
5. Ching, Albert (August 3, 2010). "Nick Spencer Takes Readers to School with 'Morning Glories'". Newsarama. Retrieved August 8, 2010.
6. Handlen, Zack; Heller, Jason; Murray, Noel; Phipps, Keith; Pierce, Leonard; Robinson, Tasha (March 26, 2010). "Comics Panel". The A.V. Club (The Onion). Retrieved August 8, 2010.
7. Melrose, Kevin (October 9, 2010). "NYCC '10 | DiDio addresses fate of Jimmy Olsen, other DC co-features". CBR.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
8. DCE Editorial (October 8, 2010). "NYCC 2010: Meet your new SUPERGIRL creative team | DC Comics". DC Comics. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
9. DCE Editorial (December 15, 2010). "A few teases for the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents fans | DC Comics". DC Comics. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
10. Ching, Albert (October 20, 2010). "War Machine Gets an IRON MAN 2.0 Upgrade From Nick Spencer". Newsarama.com. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
11. West, Josh (February 10, 2011). "NICK SPENCER TO TAKE ON THE SECRET AVENGERS". Archived from the original on August 23, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
12. Montgomery, Paul (March 6, 2011). "ECCC 2011: NICK SPENCER GOES EXCLUSIVE WITH MARVEL COMICS". iFanboy. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
13. "Kaare Andrews Covers Marvel's Ultimate Relaunch". CBR.com. May 17, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
14. Adams, Tim (March 1, 2018). "Amazing Spider-Man Being Relaunched By Spencer & Ottley". CBR.com. Retrieved June 23, 2018.

General references

• Arrant, Chris (June 23, 2009). "Existential Comics: Talking to the Creators of Existence 2.0". Newsarama. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Wigler, Josh (September 29, 2009). "Nick Spencer Wants You To Remember Forgetless". CBR.com. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Arrant, Chris (December 23, 2009). "Creator Nick Spencer Hopes You Remember Image's Forgetless". Newsarama. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Wigler, Josh (January 22, 2010). "Visiting Spencer's Shuddertown". CBR.com. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Wigler, Josh (April 12, 2010). "Nick Spencer's Thriving Existence". CBR.com. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Renaud, Jeffrey (July 19, 2010). "Spencer Reloads T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents". CBR.com. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Mahadeo, Kevin (July 20, 2010). "Spencer Takes "Action" with Jimmy Olsen". CBR.com. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
• Ching, Albert (September 22, 2010). "Jimmy Olsen, Chloe Sullivan, Nick Spencer and Action Comics". Newsarama. Retrieved September 29, 2010.

External links

• Nick Spencer at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Spencer2005.com - Political campaign website

Preceded by Ed Brubaker	Secret Avengers writer 2011	Succeeded by Warren Ellis
Preceded by Rick Remender (Volume 1)	Secret Avengers writer 2013–2014 (with Ales Kot 2013–2014)	Succeeded by Ales Kot (Volume 3)
Preceded by Rick Remender	Captain America writer 2015–2017	Succeeded by Mark Waid
Preceded by Dan Slott	The Amazing Spider-Man writer 2018-present	Succeeded by N/A