Brian Michael Bendis

Career overview

Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist born on August 18, 1967, in Cleveland, Ohio. Beginning his career with crime and noir comics, he eventually transitioned to mainstream superhero work. While at Marvel Comics, Bendis collaborated with Bill Jemas and Mark Millar as the writer on the first book of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, Ultimate Spider-Man, which debuted in the year 2000.

Throughout his career at Marvel, Bendis relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004. He also wrote several major Marvel storylines, including Avengers Disassembled spanning from 2004 to 2005, Secret War from 2004 to 2005, House of M in 2005, Secret Invasion in 2008, Siege in 2010, and Age of Ultron in 2013. Additionally, he co-created the characters Riri Williams, Miles Morales, and Jessica Jones.

In total, Brian Michael Bendis holds thirty-one known credits in writing within his professional profile on the Movie Database. His contributions span across notable comic book writing and publishing milestones that shaped various mainstream superhero titles and character creations for Marvel Comics over multiple decades.