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Joe Staton

Joe Staton (/sttən/ born January 19, 1948[1]) is an American comics artist and writer. He co-created the Bronze Age Huntress (Helena Wayne), as well as the third Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), Kilowog and the Omega Men for DC Comics. He was the artist of the Dick Tracy comic strip from 2011 to October 2021.

This article is about the comic book artist. For the baseball player, see Joe Staton (baseball).

Joe Staton

(1948-01-19) January 19, 1948
North Carolina, U.S.

Writer, Penciller, Inker

Inkpot Award 1983
Eisner Award 1998
Harvey Award 2013, 2014, 2015

Early life[edit]

Joe Staton grew up in Tennessee and graduated from Murray State University in 1970.[2]

Awards[edit]

Joe Staton received an Inkpot Award in 1983.[16]


Staton and writer Mike Curtis received the Best Syndicated Strip Harvey Award for Dick Tracy in 2013,[17] 2014,[18] and 2015.[19]

#121 (Femme Noir) (2003)

Femforce

Bethke, Marlyn and Alexandre Koehn, "From E-Man to Batman: Joe Staton Interview", The Comics Journal #45 (March 1979), pp. 37–45.

at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

Joe Staton

at the Grand Comics Database

Joe Staton

at the Grand Comics Database

"DC Profiles #51: Joe Staton"

at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

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at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

Joe Staton

on Steve Englehart.com

Biography