Dan Slott is a prolific and well-known comic book writer, with a ten-year-long run on Spider-Man (the longest of any writer) and well-regarded runs on She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, Avengers: The Initiative, and The Thing.
Slott got his start writing children's comics like Mighty Mouse, Ren & Stimpy, Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, and Powerpuff Girls. His first real superhero comic series was a mini-series in DC called Arkham Asylum: Living Hell. This, in turn, led to him being hired by Marvel in 2004 for a new She-Hulk series where Slott had her join the Occult Law Firm of Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway.
In 2007, he left She-Hulk to become one of the four main writers on Amazing Spider-Man. Beginning in 2010, he would become the sole writer for the book and remain the sole writer all the way until 2018. Slott's run contained a lot of defining moments for Spider-Man, including Spider-Island (where everyone in Manhattan suddenly gained spider powers), Superior Spider Man (where Doctor Octopus, having switched bodies with Peter and killed him, tries to become a better hero than Spider-Man), and Spider-Verse (where Peter teamed up with a bunch of alternate universe Spider-People and was the basis for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse). His last storyline for Amazing was Go Down Swinging.
In 2016, Slott and Mike Allred won an Eisner Award for Silver Surfer #11. Their Silver Surfer series was praised for being fun and new, while also appearing quite similar to a certain time-traveling doctor and his companion.
In 2018, Slott started runs on both Fantastic Four (returning after a couple of years on hiatus) and Tony Stark: Iron Man. He wrapped up his Iron Man run in 2020 with Iron Man 2020 (Event).
In 2022, Slott returned to the Spider-Man franchise as part of the character's 60th anniversary celebrations, contributing a story to Amazing Spider-Man #900 and Amazing Fantasy #1000 in August of that year. In October 2022, a new ongoing, simply titled Spider-Man was launched with Slott writing and art by Mark Bagley. The first storyline of this new title was "End of the Spider-Verse", another entry in the Spider-Verse saga. The story introduced a new Spider hero to the mythos, Bailey Briggs, aka the Spider-Boy.
The Spider-Man title would fold shortly after in August 2023, however, a new Spider-Boy spin-off title was announced in June, with Slott again writing. Slott would launch a new volume of Superior Spider-Man in November 2023 following a giant-size one-shot, Superior Spider-Man Returns, in October.
Comic books he's written:
- Age of Heroes #1–4
- The Amazing Spider-Man #546–548, 559–561, 564, 568–573, 581–582, 590–591, 600, 618–621, 647, 648–660, 662–676, 678–700, 789–801
- The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #1–18
- The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 4 #1–32
- The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1–5
- Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1–6
- Avengers: The Initiative #1–12 and #14–20, Annual #1, Special #1
- The Batman Adventures #1–8, #10–14
- Doc Samson #1–4
- Doctor Who (Titan): Tenth Doctor Once Upon a Time Lord graphic novella.
- Fantastic Four vol. 6 #1-present
- Great Lakes Avengers #1–4, GLX-Mas Special, Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular
- Iron Man 2020 (Event) #1–6
- JLA Classified #32–36
- Justice League Adventures #4, 6, 11, and 13
- Looney Tunes #13, 20, 25, 26, 44, 47, 49 – 52, 57, 59, 62, 65, 70, 75, 89, 93, 100, 104, 129, 171, 182, and 247
- Marvel Comics Presents #89, 93, 98, 99, 116, 119, 129, 130, 132–136, 148, and 156
- Mighty Avengers #21–36
- Pinky and the Brain #3–4
- Reckoning War
- The Ren & Stimpy Show, 1–13, 15, 17–19
- Scooby-Doo #5, #50
- She-Hulk vol. 1 #1–12, vol. 2 #1–21
- Silver Surfer vol. 7 #1–15, vol. 8 #1–14
- Sonic Super Special #8, #12
- Spider-Boy #1-
- Spider-Man/Human Torch #1–5
- Spider-Verse #1–2
- Superior Spider-Man (2013) #1–33
- Superior Spider-Man (2023) #1
- The Superman Adventures #40 and #57
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Year of the Turtle #1–3
- The Thing #1–8
- Tony Stark: Iron Man #1–11, #14–19
Tropes
- Villain Decay: He has commented on the fact that many supervillains seem to go from being a threat to the hero by themselves to being one of six guys that get taken out by said hero. Given that he also enjoys inflicting Break the Haughty on villains who are a major threat, he says he wants to do a story where six supervillains are robbing a bank, and one of them is Galactus.
