Jeph Loeb Biography

Fast Facts

• His work on "Heroes" won him the Jules Verne Award for artistic achievement at the Jules Verne Festival in Paris in 2007
• When his teenage son Sam died of bone cancer shortly before he finished writing his final comic, he and a number of others collaborated to finish and publish it, along with a feature in which a boy named Sam inspires Clark Kent to become a hero
• A comic book lover since childhood, he started writing comics as a side job in the early 1990s
• Quote: "The more you get published, the more you get published․"
• His comic books, which include stories featuring such major characters as Spider-Man, Batman and Superman, have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list
• Frequently collaborated with artist Tim Sale on comic books
• Marvel Entertainment appointed him Executive Vice President, Head of Television in 2010, a position requiring the creation of live-action and animated television shows based on Marvel's characters