Steven Butler is an American

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artist. He is known both for penciling the

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'' as well as creating new designs for Archie characters in 2007.

Career

Butler's work ranges from inking and providing occasional cover duties for ''

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'' to superhero illustrations in the original ''Silver Storm'' mini-series to publications such as

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' ''

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'' and ''

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''. The independent comic '' The Badger'' by

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served to launch his career, but his work at Silverline comics preceded Badger. Butler has also been involved in several Christian comics projects. From 1999 to 2007 Butler worked on the ''PowerMark'' comic series from Powermark Productions. In 1999 he also illustrated 3 tracts for wrestler

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entitled ''The Greatest Match Ever'', ''Who is Your Tag-Team Partner?'', and ''Who Are You Wrestling Against?'', packaged by The Nate Butler Studio and published by PowerMark Productions. In 2005 he pencilled the ''Welcome to Holsom'' series published by Radiant Life (Gospel Publishing House). In 2007, Butler redesigned the

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look, but are being used alongside the traditional designs for special projects. The first story to use the designs was "

Bad Boy Trouble "Bad Boy Trouble" is an American comic book story by writer Melanie J. Morgan and artists Steven Butler and Al Milgrom that was originally serialized in '' Betty & Veronica Double Digest'' #151-154. The story features Betty and Veronica (and othe ...

," which Butler also drew, and the second was "The Matchmakers," which was drawn by

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. These publications are unrelated to the "

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" Archie reboot of 2015. In 2021 Butler contributed the

Jim Aparo James N. Aparo (August 24, 1932 – July 19, 2005) was an American comic book artist, best known for his DC Comics work from the late 1960s through the 1990s, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman, and the Spectre, along with famous stor ...

inspired cover to Issue #1 of Austin Hough's The Masters from Power Comics, Inc.. Based o
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utler replaced the Batman with the

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(redesigned by Alan Weiss for Power Comics) along with replacing Joker,

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, and

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with Power Comics original villains The Clerk, Sir Réal Ordéal, Graffiti, Panorama, and Monsieur Petit Renard. His good friend Mort Todd contributed the colors.

Bibliography

*The Masters #1 Cover "A" Power Comics, Inc. 2021 *''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformer ...

'' * ''Web of Spider-Man'' #117 (first story), 118-120, 122-125, 127-129. * ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' (Vol. 1) #12 (some pages)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Steven Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American comics artists