Chuck Dixon

Chuck Dixon (born Charles Dixon, April 14, 1954, in Philadelphia) is an American comic book writer. He started in 1984 with Evangeline for Comico and went on to write Airboy for Eclipse Comics, where he also adapted J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit as a three-issue series with artist David Wenzel (1989 to 1990).

His Punisher work at Marvel, including The Punisher War Journal, led to DC Comics, where he wrote Detective Comics from 1992 to 1999, took part in the Knightfall storyline and helped create the villain Bane. He wrote the Robin miniseries and launched the ongoing Robin and Nightwing series, created Birds of Prey, wrote Catwoman and co-created Stephanie Brown.

From 2002 he wrote for CrossGen (Sigil, Crux, Way of the Rat, El Cazador). His later work includes G.I. Joe for IDW, comic adaptations of Robert Jordan's New Spring and The Eye of the World, and the Levon Cade thriller novels. He received an Inkpot Award in 2014.