Derek Graham "Dez" Skinn (born 4 February 1951) is a British comic and magazine editor, and author of a number of books on comics. As head of Marvel Comics'...
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ran for 26 issues between March 1982 and January 1985. It was edited by Dez Skinn and published by his company Quality Communications. It featured early...
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receiver Dezmon Dez Giraldi (born 1986), Australian footballer Dez Wells (born 1992), American pro basketball player Derek Dez Skinn (born 1951), British...
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Skinn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ann Emelinda Skinn (1747–1789), English novelist Dez Skinn (born 1951), British comic Tony...
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Productions series of horror and science fiction films. The brainchild of Dez Skinn, almost every issue of the magazine featured a comics adaptations of a...
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black-and-white Marvel UK comics anthology published under the editorship of Dez Skinn starting in 1979. After starring for many years in the Marvel UK flagship...
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Marvel UK (section Skinn era ("The Marvel Revolution"))
but with a turbulent market and falling sales, Laing was let go and Dez Skinn took over. Paul Neary was editor in chief in 1995, when Marvel UK was...
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first work was for Warren Publishing in the 1970s before working with Dez Skinn at Marvel UK as well as work for 2000 AD. He later became editor-in-chief...
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Quality Communications was a British publishing company founded by Dez Skinn that operated from 1982 to c. 2008. The company's most notable publications...
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Dez Skinn with his own company Starburst Publishing Ltd. The name Starburst was settled on after rejecting other names, including Starfall, as Skinn considered...
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The strip was one of the least popular in that title; editor/publisher Dez Skinn remarked, "If I'd have given each character their own title, the failures...
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in August 1978 Stan Lee headhunted Dez Skinn. In what the specialist press called "the Marvel Revolution", Skinn insisted on funds being made available...
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Night Raven first appeared in Hulk Comic #1 (March 7, 1979). Creator Dez Skinn spoke on the creation of the character stating, "Chicago has gangsters...
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Rider, Woodstock, Bob Dylan, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and according to Dez Skinn, author of Comix: The Underground Revolution, the strip served as an inspiration...
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Golden Vampires (1974) The House of Hammer #1 (October 1976), adapted by Dez Skinn and Paul Neary. Dracula (Hammer film series) Hammer filmography The Curse...
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media, as well as producing its own comic strip. Its founding editor was Dez Skinn, and the longest-serving editor was Tom Spilsbury who served from 2007...
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The series was Bagge's first one-man comics anthology. Described by Dez Skinn in Comix: The Underground Revolution as the work which "threw Peter Bagge...
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Liberators was a science fiction comic book story based on concepts created by Dez Skinn and Will Simpson for the British anthology title Warrior. It was among...
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from the British comic scene, and in August 1978 Stan Lee headhunted Dez Skinn, the force behind the Eagle Award-winning House of Hammer horror anthology...
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the rights to the character all along. When planning Warrior, editor Dez Skinn planned a similar set of content to his work with Marvel UK, and identified...
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of a new monthly magazine called Warrior. The magazine was founded by Dez Skinn, a former editor of both IPC (publishers of 2000 AD) and Marvel UK, and...
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31 October 2011, aged 96. Quality Communications founder and publisher Dez Skinn remembered the character fondly and enlisted writer Alan Moore to revive...
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graphic novel, and has been called the first British graphic novel. In 1982 Dez Skinn launched Warrior, possibly the most notable comic of the period, as it...
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Emerson-edited Street Comix or humour titles like the famous Viz; attempts like Dez Skinn's Warrior had received critical acclaim from comics readers but failed...
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instigation of Dez Skinn of Quality Communications, for the anthology Warrior. There are conflicting accounts of how this was arranged; Skinn has claimed...
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2003), pp. 5–8. Skinn, Dez. "Early days of UK comics conventions and marts," Archived February 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine DezSkinn.com. Accessed March...
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fictional character featured in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Dez Skinn, Steve Parkhouse, Paul Neary and John Stokes, and first appeared in The...
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several influential figures in the current British comics scene, including Dez Skinn, Nick Landau, Richard Burton, Angus McKie and – crucially – Dave Gibbons...
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influences. Lloyd drew a comics adaptation of the Time Bandits film in 1982. Dez Skinn set up Warrior magazine in 1982 and asked Lloyd to create a new pulp character...
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indignity for the hapless Rebbeck. Big Ben was originally devised by Dez Skinn some time before the 1982 incarnation of Warrior came into being. As a...
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