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But he’d take a hiatus to spearhead with Wolfman DC’s 1985 50th-anniversary event Crisis on Infinite Earths, an industry-defining (and continuity redefining) crossover event that reportedly featured every single character DC owned. With his growing popularity, he’d go on to work for Marvel rival DC Comics, leading the art for Marv Wolfman’s The New Teen Titans. He quickly became a Marvel regular, first co-creating with Bill Mantlo the White Tiger, the first Puerto Rican superhero, before working on other Marvel titles, including The Inhumans and Fantastic Four, and notably creating the Taskmaster character with writer David Michelinie for The Avengers.

“I have been given the option of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, but after weighing all the variables and assessing just how much of my remaining days would be eaten up by doctor visits, treatments, hospital stays and dealing with the often stressful and frustrating bureaucracy of the medical system, I’ve opted to just let nature take its course, and I will enjoy whatever time I have left as fully as possible with my family, friends, and fans,” he wrote.īorn in 1954 in the South Bronx, the Puerto-Rican American writer, penciller, colorist, inker and more began his comics career in the 1970s, making his professional debut for a major publisher in August 1974 with Marvel Comics’ Astonishing Tales No. The artist opted not to undergo treatment. Pérez publicly announced his then-stage three pancreatic cancer diagnosis in December 2021, telling fans that the cancer was inoperable and doctors had given him six months to a year to live. Eileen Saki, Rosie the Bar Owner on 'M*A*S*H,' Dies at 79

George pérez wonder woman by george perez vol 1