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Cary Bates was born on 1948 in Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American writer. Discover Cary Bates's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Born 1948
Birthday 1948
Birthplace Pennsylvania, U.S.
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1948

Cary Bates (born 1948) is an American comic book, animation, television and film writer.

He is best known for his work on The Flash, Superman, Superboy, the Legion of Superheroes and Captain Atom.

Bates is the longest-serving Superman writer, at twenty years.

1963

He began working for the publisher in 1963 and continued to do so until the early 1990s.

1964

Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC Comics at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to Superman #167 (Feb. 1964).

Bates began to sell stories to DC when he was 17.

Bates is best known for his work for DC Comics on such titles as Action Comics, Captain Atom, The Flash, Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Superman.

1970

Among his contributions to the Superman mythos, he and artist Curt Swan co-created the supervillains Terra-Man and the 1970s version of the Toyman as well as the superhero Vartox.

1972

In November 1972, Bates and artist Art Saaf launched the first Supergirl series.

Bates wrote two stories which featured a superhero wedding.

1974

In Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #200 (Feb. 1974), the characters Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel were married and Justice League of America #121 (Aug. 1975) featured the marriage of Adam Strange and the character's longstanding love interest Alanna.

1976

Superman #300 (June 1976) featured an out-of-continuity story by Bates and Elliot S. Maggin which imagined the infant Superman landing on Earth in 1976 and becoming a superhero in 2001.

1979

Bates would end the marriage of another character when he wrote The Flash #275 (July 1979) wherein the title character's wife, Iris West Allen was killed.

Bates appeared in his own comics as himself several times, alongside superheroes such as the Silver Age version of the Flash and the Justice League of America.

1980

Bates and artist Kurt Schaffenberger were the creative team for The New Adventures of Superboy, a series debuting in January 1980, which took the character out of the Legion of Super-Heroes and back into solo adventures.

His other work includes the comic strips The Lone Ranger (1980–1983), and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1981–1983).

1981

He and artist Carmine Infantino crafted a Batman backup story for Detective Comics #500 (March 1981).

Infantino returned to The Flash title with issue #296 (April 1981) and he and Bates collaborated on the series, including issue #300 (Aug. 1981) which was in the Dollar Comics format, until its cancellation with issue #350 (October 1985).

1983

A major shakeup occurred when The Flash would inadvertently kill his wife's murderer, the Reverse-Flash, in The Flash #324 (Aug. 1983).

This led to an extended storyline titled "The Trial of the Flash" in which the hero must face the repercussions of his actions.

1985

Bates became the editor as well as the writer of The Flash title during this time and oversaw it until its cancellation in 1985.

1986

His final Superman stories were "Trapped in IMP-TV" in Superman #421 and "Superman for a Day" in Action Comics #581 (both cover dated July 1986).

Bates was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986.

1987

In 1987 and 1988, he wrote some stories for Marvel Comics' New Universe line and created the Video Jack series at Epic Comics with Keith Giffen.

His post-Superman work for DC included a Captain Atom series with Pat Broderick and the Silverblade limited series with Gene Colan.

1988

Cary Bates was head scriptwriter on the 1988–1992 live action Superboy television series, and co-wrote (with Mario Puzo and John Briley) the 1992 film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, produced by Superman: The Movie producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind.

1990

He also wrote for Disney's Gargoyles during the 1990s.

2003

The tale was an inspiration for Mark Millar's Superman: Red Son limited series published in 2003.

2008

In 2008 he returned after a 20-year absence to Marvel and wrote True Believers, a limited series about a team trying to uncover secrets in the Marvel Universe.

2010

Bates made a return to writing Superman, this time as an Elseworlds story titled Superman: The Last Family of Krypton, published in August 2010.

2011

"The Trial of the Flash" was collected in a volume of the Showcase Presents series in 2011.

Bates worked on the DC Comics nostalgic event DC Retroactive writing stories for the one-shot specials DC Retroactive: Flash - The '70s (with art by Benito Gallego and Sal Buscema), and DC Retroactive: JLA - The '70s (drawn by Gordon Purcell and Andy Smith), both released with September 2011 cover dates.

2017

In 2017, Bates returned to the character Captain Atom and wrote The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom #1–6 together with co-writer Greg Weisman who had also worked with him on many issues of the 1980s Captain Atom series.

In 2023, Bates was interviewed about his career by writer Mark Millar for his YouTube series about comic book creators.

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