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Date of Birth
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22-November-1940
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Place of Birth
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Missouri
(United States of America, United States, with Territories, Contiguous United States)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Writer, Cartoonist, Novelist, Editor
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Roy William Thomas, Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E. Howard's character and helped launch a sword and sorcery trend in comics. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes — particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America — and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's X-Men and Avengers, and DC Comics' All-Star Squadron, among other titles.
Thomas was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2011.
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