Jerry Ordway started his comic book career working in fanzines and small press comics in the early – mid 1970s on titles like “Tim Corrigan's Superhero Comics “ and his own self-published fanzine “Okay Comix”. However, it was in 1980 when he attended a DC comics talent search at the Chicago Comicon that his talents were recognised and he was offered work as an inker on DC’s anthology comics including "House of Mystery", "Weird War Tales" , and "Mystery in Space". After the success of his inking work he was offered work as the pencil artist (and inker) on DC’s “All-Star Squadron” , “Infinity, Inc” (which he co-created with Roy Thomas) “DC Comics Presents”, “ Secret Origins “ and “Crisis on Infinite Earths” . Below are some of my favourite pages from this amazing artist that effortlessly merges the classic comic story telling and art of the 1960s/1970's with that of modern day comics:
I first became aware of Ordway’s amazing art (and writing) in 1986, when along with writer/artist John Byrne and writer Marv Wolfman, he helped revamp the Superman franchise on the “The Adventures of Superman” title (a continuation of the original Superman title). His work on this title ( art and writing) was simply stunning as can be seen by the above splash page from issue 448 and issues 450 and 454 below.
In 2012 Ordway drew the Challengers of the Unknown for “ DC Universe Presents” issues 6, 7 & 8. This series contained some of Ordway’s best art as can be seen from the page below from issue 6.
Jerry Ordway is probably best known for his amazing work on DC's "Justice Society Of America" comic, which is one of the very few superhero comics I pick up (especially is Mr Ordway is on the book as can be seen in the last 2 JSA illo's below). The pages below are from JSA issue 23 (2009), JSA issue 25 and JSA (Vol 4) issue 2 (2023 -which features 4 pages of excellent Ordway art) ) - The Power Girl splash above is from the JSA Annual issue 1 (2008).
A final selection of Ordway splash pages: "All New Atom" issue 19 (2008), "Tom Strong" (ABC) issue 20 , " Wildstar - Sky Zero " (Image - 1993) issue 2 and "Adventure Comics" (Vol 2 issue 5) from 2010.
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