Scott Beatty

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name = Scott Beatty

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Scott Beatty is an American author who has written comic books and encyclopaedias based on DC Comics characters.

Biography

Beatty has worked extensively for the popular comic book publisher DC Comics since the mid '90s. He is perhaps best known for his work on several encyclopedic guides to superheroes.

He has also worked writing comic books, recently contributing to the Wildstorm reboot World's End with the series "" and "Number of the Beast". [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=141930 Gage & Beatty on Wildstorm: Revelations] , Newsarama, January 4, 2008] [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=146571 Scott Beatty: Exploring The Wildstorm Universe] , Newsarama, February 13, 2008]

Bibliography

Ultimate Guides

The popular series of Ultimate Guides published by DK Publishing and are known for delving deeply into the topic at hand, and they typically require a great deal of addition research on Beatty's part. Among others, Beatty has written:
*"Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight"
*"Catwoman: The Visual Guide to the Feline Fatale"
*"JLA:The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League of America"
*"Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess"
*"The DC Comics Encyclopedia"
*"Batman Begins: The Visual Guide"
*"The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual"
*"The Superman Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Saving the Day"
*"The DC Comics Action Figure Archive"

Comic books

Beatty also has an extensive resume of actual comic book projects. Some of his most well known work includes:
*"" #33-49
*"Robin: Year One" #1-4 (with Chuck Dixon)
*"Robin" #88-91
*"Joker: Last Laugh" #1-6
*"Nightwing: Year One" ("Nightwing" #101-107)
*"Batgirl: Year One" #1-9 (with Chuck Dixon)
*"Ruse" #10-26
*"Star Wars Tales" #13
*"Secret Files & Origins" and "80-Page Giants" for Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, JLA, JSA, and others
*"Son of Vulcan" #1-6
*"" #19-20 (with pencils by Rags Morales and inks by Michael Bair, DC Comics, 2007)
*"" (with co-author Christos Gage, and art by Wes Craig, Wildstorm, 2008)
*"Number of the Beast" (with Chris Sprouse, Wildstorm, 2008)
* "Gen¹³" #21- (with Mike Huddleston, Wildstorm, forthcoming)

Notes

References

*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=240|title=Scott Beatty

External links

*official|http://www.scottbeatty.com

Interviews

* [http://legionsofgotham.proboards70.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=1158121724 Legions of Gotham Interview w/ Scott Beatty about the DC Action Figure Archive]
* [http://legionsofgotham.proboards70.com/index.cgi?board=interviews&action=display&thread=1086883495 Legions of Gotham Interview w/ Scott Beatty from 2004]
* [http://batmanytb.com/viewpage.php?page_id=54 Batman: YTB - 9/06 Interview with Scott Beatty]
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=88346 Interview with Beatty about the JSA Classified arc] , Newsarama, October 20, 2006