Conway, Gerard F
Entry updated 4 May 2026. Tagged: Author, Film, TV.
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for DC Comics and wrote the Marvel/DC crossover title Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century (March 1976).
Conway had in fact begun publishing un-Tied sf with "Through the Dark Glass" in Amazing for November 1970. His first sf novel was The Midnight Dancers (1971), set in the near Far Future in a galaxy ravaged by a mysterious Pandemic. Mindship (in Universe 1, anth 1971, ed Terry Carr; exp 1974) is also a Space Opera: the mindships of the title are Spaceships coordinated by the Psi Powers of specially trained "corks". Not untypically of sf novels of the time, by the end of the book a gestalt state has been achieved between one cork and his captain. As Wallace Moore, Conway wrote the Balzan of the Cat People series: The Blood Stones (1975), The Caves of Madness (1975) and The Lights of Zetar (1975), deliberately reminiscent of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan but with Cat-like Aliens replacing the apes.
In the early 1970s Conway was also involved with Marvel Comics, editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for DC Comics and wrote the Marvel/DC crossover title Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man: The Battle of the Century (March 1976).
Conway then became a scriptwriter and producer in Hollywood, working both in Television and Cinema; most of his work there is non-fantastic, though he co-wrote the story for the film Conan the Destroyer (1984) directed by Richard Fleischer, and wrote for various television series: two 1986 episodes for Transformers (1984-1987), four 1986 episodes for Centurions (1986), 1992 and 1994 episodes for Batman (1992-1995) (see Batman), a 1994 episode for Spider-Man (1994-1998), and unspecified episodes for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999). He created the animated Superhero-team series Defenders of the Earth (1986-1987).
For his career in comics, Conway entered the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2026. [JC/DRL]
see also: Faster Than Light.
Gerard Francis Conway
born New York: 10 September 1952
died Thousand Oaks, California: 27 April 2026
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series
Balzan of the Cat People
- Blood Stones (New York: Pyramid Books, 1975), as Wallace Moore [Balzan of the Cat People: pb/]
- The Caves of Madness (New York: Pyramid Books, 1975) as Wallace Moore [Balzan of the Cat People: pb/]
- The Lights of Zetar (New York: Pyramid Books, 1975) as Wallace Moore [Balzan of the Cat People: pb/]
individual titles
- The Midnight Dancers (New York: Ace Books, 1971) [in the publisher's first Science Fiction Special series: pb/Davis Meltzer]
- Mindship (New York: DAW Books, 1974) [exp from "Mindship" (in Universe 1, anth 1971, ed Terry Carr): pb/Kelly Freas]
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