Scott Beatty

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Scott Beatty is an American author who has worked extensively for the popular comic book publisher DC Comics since the mid '90s. He is perhaps best known for his work on several encyclopedic guides to superheroes.

Contents 1 Ultimate Guides 2 Comic books 3 External links 3.1 Interviews

[edit] Ultimate Guides

The popular series of Ultimate Guides published by DK Publishing and are known for delving deeply into the topic at hand, and they typically require a great deal of addition research on Beatty's part. Among others, Beatty has written:

• Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight
• Catwoman: The Visual Guide to the Feline Fatale
• JLA:The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League of America
• Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess
• The DC Comics Encyclopedia
• Batman Begins: The Visual Guide
• The Batman Handbook: The Ultimate Training Manual
• The Superman Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Saving the Day
• The DC Comics Action Figure Archive

[edit] Comic books

Beatty also has an extensive resume of actual comic book projects. Some of his most well known work includes:

• Batman: Gotham Knights #33-49
• Robin: Year One #1-4 (with Chuck Dixon)
• Robin #88-91
• Joker: Last Laugh #1-6
• Nightwing: Year One (Nightwing #101-107)
• Batgirl: Year One #1-9 (with Chuck Dixon)
• Ruse #10-26
• Star Wars Tales #13
• Secret Files & Origins and 80-Page Giants for Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, JLA, JSA, and others
• JSA Classified #19-20
• Wildstorm: Revelations (with co-author Christos Gage, and art by Wes Craig, Wildstorm, 2008)
• Number of the Beast (with Chris Sprouse, Wildstorm, 2008)
• Gen¹³ #21- (with Mike Huddleston, Wildstorm, forthcoming)

[edit] External links

• The official website of Scott Beatty

[edit] Interviews

• Legions of Gotham Interview w/ Scott Beatty about the DC Action Figure Archive
• Legions of Gotham Interview w/ Scott Beatty from 2004
• Batman: YTB - 9/06 Interview with Scott Beatty
• Interview with Beatty about the JSA Classified arc, Newsarama, October 20, 2006
• Gage & Beatty on Wildstorm: Revelations, Newsarama, January 4, 2008
• Scott Beatty: Exploring The Wildstorm Universe, Newsarama, February 13, 2008

Preceded by Devin Grayson

Batman: Gotham Knights writer 2002–2004

Succeeded by A.J. Lieberman