Ed Hannigan

Edward Hannigan (born August 6, 1951) is an American comics artist, writer, and editor for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Ed Hannigan's first credited comics story was published in Marvel Comics' licensed Planet of the Apes #5 (Feb. 1975).

His writing credits include work on The Defenders from issue #67 (Jan. 1979) to #91 (Jan. 1981).

Hannigan started as the series' artist but, while working on the story arc in issues #66 to #68, "I got in a pinch ... and asked [Hannigan] to help me," writer David Anthony Kraft recalled.

"He felt self-conscious ... but I told him he'd be fine. He eventually got into it."

Hannigan found it too difficult to both write and draw the series, so by the end of the story arc he was working solely as writer.

As the artist on The Spectacular Spider-Man, Hannigan and writer Bill Mantlo co-created the characters Cloak and Dagger, who appeared in a live-action television series on Freeform.

At DC Comics, Hannigan redesigned the Brainiac character into a chromed, more robotic form.

He pencilled the covers on Batman in a lengthy run that spanned the majority of 1983–1985 with Don Newton providing the interior art.

Hannigan and writer Mike Grell launched the first Green Arrow ongoing series in February 1988.

The Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight series began in November 1989 with the five-part "Shaman" storyline by Hannigan and writer Dennis O'Neil.

Hannigan and his wife Heidi are the parents of Jean Anne, born in 1989.

He both wrote and illustrated the three-issue prestige format series Skull & Bones for DC in 1992.

In January 2010, Marvel Comics and The Hero Initiative published Ed Hannigan: Covered a fundraising effort to assist with Hannigan's medical expenses due to multiple sclerosis.