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Shane McCarthy

Shane McCarthy

Australian writer (born 1975)

For the Australian rules footballer, see Shane McCarthy (footballer).

Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.

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Career

A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.[1]

Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.

McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing.[2] He is the creator of the character Drift.

His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.

McCarthy formerly ran a swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia.[3]

Bibliography

Transformers for IDW Publishing

  • All Hail Megatron (12 issues, 2008–2009)
  • Spotlight: Blurr (one-shot, 2008)
  • Spotlight: Drift (one-shot, 2009)
  • Spotlight: Cliffjumper (one-shot, 2009)
  • The Transformers: Drift (4 issues, 2010)
  • Mars Attacks: The Transformers (one-shot, 2013)
  • The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone (4 issues, 2014–2015)

Batman for DC Comics

Others:

  • "Black Eight" in Star Wars Tales #21 (2004)
  • Event Horizon #1 (2005)
  • Event Horizon #2 (2005)
  • Zombies! Feast (2006)[5]
  • Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)

References

  1. [1]
    Silver Bullet Comic Books Line of Fire Reviews 6 February 2006 Archived 23 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    Shane McCarthy personal website
  3. [3]
    Swing It!: About Us / Teachers
  4. [4]
    "Comic Books Database: Detective Comics" #797 Archived 20 January 2013 at archive.today
  5. [5]
    IDW Publishing: IDW Titles Archived 18 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
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