I've known Greg Theakston since the early high school days in Detroit when he introduced me to the world of professional comics art and comics creators, as well as being an early art technique mentor. Greg went on to become a notable artist and painter in the comics industry, paperback books and advertising worlds, as well as a premiere comics historian and inventor of methods to re-create and preserve comics art from the Golden and Silver Ages.

Tony Isabella wrote the first Green Arrow story of the Green Arrow & Black Canary series I penciled for World's Finest Dollar Comics, circa 1976/77. He went on to create Black Lightning, one of the first major black American comic book characters, for DC. Like most comics creations, and pursuant to publishers' tendencies to take unfair legal advantage of comics creators in order to wrest away their intellectual property rights, Black Lightning remains an issue of contention for Tony, regarding the manner in which DC Comics attempts to distance him from his creation in order to deny him due recompense as the character's creator.

Portraits of the Creators