Douglas Mahnke ([1]) is an American comic bookartist, known for his work and penciling books including The Mask, JLA, Batman, Final Crisis, and Green Lantern.
Career
Mahnke's first prominent work was for The Mask, and he has since worked for DC Comics on JLA, Batman with writer Judd Winick, and Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein with Grant Morrison.Mahnke's work on Batman included the story "Under the Hood", which detailed how the previously deceased second Robin, Jason Todd, was alive and actively working against Batman's interests as the Red Hood.[2]
Mahnke also worked on the critically acclaimed prestige one-shot
His work also includes titles such as Major Bummer, Superman: The Man of Steel, Team Zero and Justice League Elite.He was the original artist for the Dark Horse Comics title X, a run inked by Jimmy Palmiotti, as well as being the cover artist for King Tiger/Motorhead, a two-issue series set in the same universe as X.In 2005, with comic book inker Tom Nguyen, Mahnke produced two comic book art instructional DVDs.In 2006, he took over the art for Stormwatch P.H.D. for Wildstorm Comics.His work in 2007 included the DC mini, Black Adam: The Dark Age written by Peter Tomasi, detailing Black Adam's mourning over his wife Isis and regaining his powers.[4] In 2008, he reunited with Tomasi to pencil an issue of Nightwing for the writer.[5]
Mahnke was an important collaborator with writer Grant Morrison on DC's event series Final Crisis, pencilling the Requiem one-shot and the two-issue Superman Beyond 3D tie-in.Mahnke also pencilled the final pages of the main series' 6th issue featuring the "death" of Batman, and replaced artist J. G. Jones entirely on the series finale issue #7 over concerns of Jones' speed.[6]
Starting in July 2009, Mahnke became the ongoing artist for DC's Green Lantern with writer Geoff Johns, right at the beginning of the Blackest Night storyline.[7][8]
He drew The Multiversity: Ultra Comics (May 2015), the eighth issue of Grant Morrison's The Multiversity project.[9]
Bibliography
Interior work
Homicide (with John Arcudi, Dark Horse):
Dark Horse Presents #25–29 (anthology, 1988–1989)
Homicide Special: "The Hungry Gods" (one-shot, 1990)
The Mask (with John Arcudi, Dark Horse):
Mayhem #1–4: "The Mask" (anthology, 1989)
The Mask #1–4 + The Mask Returns #1–4 + The Mask Strikes Back #1–5 (1991; 1992–1993; 1995)
A Decade of Dark Horse #3: "Night of the Return of the Living Ipkiss...Kinda" (anthology, 1996)
"Injustice League" (with Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis (#35), in vol. 2 #25, 29–33 and 35, 2014)
"Legion of Doom, Part One" (with James Tynion IV, in vol. 4 #5, 2018)
"Invasion of the Supermen" (with Robert Venditti, in vol. 4 #40 and 43, 2020)
Batman and Robin vol. 2 #31, Annual #2 (with Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason, DC Comics, 2014)
Secret Origins vol. 3 #1: "The Secret Origin of Dick Grayson!" (with Kyle Higgins, anthology, DC Comics, 2014)
The Multiversity: Ultra Comics: "Ultra Comics Lives!" (with Grant Morrison, one-shot, 2015)
Superman/Wonder Woman #13–26 (with Peter Tomasi, Ed Benes (#15–17) and Tom Derenick + Ardian Syaf (#24), DC Comics, 2015–2016)
Batman/Superman #31–32: "The Final Days of Superman, Parts Two and Three" (with Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2016)
Superman vol. 4 Rebirth, #5, 8–9, 12–13, 22–25, 29, 33–34, 36, 40, 44 (with Peter Tomasi, Patrick Gleason and James Robinson (#40), DC Comics, 2016–2018)
