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| Mary Louise Alexander | ||||
| Birth Date | September 26, 1946 | |||
| Birth Place | Atlanta, Georgia | |||
Louise Simonson is a comic book writer and editor working in the industry since the mid-1970s. She has been married to Wonder Woman writer Walt Simonson since 1980.
Simonson, credited as Louise Jones at the time, began her career as an editor working on Vampirella and other titles for Warren Publishing before moving on to Marvel Comics where she edited X-Men, Conan the Barbarian, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones, among others.
She is credited as a co-creator of several notable comic book characters including Cable and Apocalypse for Marvel; and for DC Comics: Doomsday, John Henry Irons, Natasha Irons (both proprietors of the superhero Steel), Conduit, and Franklin Stern (who was played on TV by James Earl Jones). At DC, she was one of the architects on the Superman storyline that saw him through his death, rebirth, and marriage to Lois Lane.
Simonson is profiled with other prominent women who have worked in the comics industry in Shea Fontana's 2019 book Women of Action.
Credits[]
- The True Story of Wonder Woman (1995)
- The Gauntlet (2002)
- Wonder Woman #600 "Firepower" (2010)
- Monster Magic (2013)
- DC Comics Covergirls (2016)
- Ares' Underworld Army
- Giganta's Colossal Double-Cross (2018)
- Agent of Peace #8 (2020)
- Warbringer (comic adaptation from the novel) (2020)
- WW84: Museum Mayhem "Museum Madness" (2020)
- Wonderful Women of the World "Brené Brown: Braving" (2021)