DANNY FINGEROTH is a popular-culture critic and historian, with a focus on comics and graphic novels. His most recent book is A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee, the definitive biography of the controversial, pioneering Lee. A longtime executive editor and writer at Marvel Comics, where he ran the company’s Spider-Man line, Fingeroth is the author of books including Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society; Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews Comics and the Creation of the Superhero; and The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels. Danny has spoken and taught on comics-related topics at venues including Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institution, The Mimaster Art Institute in Milan, and on countless comics conventions panels, many of which he conceived and organized. He is the creator of TwoMorrows Publishing’s Write Now magazine, a publication focused on writing for comics and animation. For more info: www.dannyfingeroth.com