Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous

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Career

Gischler's debut novel ''Gun Monkeys'' was nominated for the

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, and his novel ''Shotgun Opera'' was an

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finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel ''Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse'' was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster. He has also written

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like '' The Punisher: Frank Castle'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' (including ''Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth'' and ''Deadpool Corps'') for

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. Gischler worked on

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" starting in the '' Death of Dracula''

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and continued in ''

'' #1. ''Gun Monkeys'' has been optioned for a film adaptation, with

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writing the script and

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penciled in to direct.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Suicide Squeeze'' (368 pages, paperback, Uglytown Productions, December 2001, , hardback,

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, March 2005, , paperback,

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, January 2006, ) *''Gun Monkeys'' (304 pages, Dell Books, November 2003, ) *''The Pistol Poets'' (368 pages, paperback, Dell Books, January 2005, ) *''Shotgun Opera'' (320 pages, paperback, Dell Books, April 2006, ) *''Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse'' (336 pages, paperback,

Touchstone Books Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCol ...

, July 2008, ) *''Vampire A Go Go'' (337 pages, paperback, Touchstone Books, September 2009, ) *''The Deputy'' (256 pages, Tyrus Books, April 2010, hardback, , paperback, ) *''Stay'' (

Thomas Dunne Books Thomas Dunne Books was an imprint of St. Martin's Press, which is a division of Macmillan Publishers. From 1986 until April 2020, it published popular trade fiction and nonfiction. History The imprint signed David Irving, a scholar, for a Joseph ...

, June 2015, ) *''Gestapo Mars'' (a Carter Sloan novel) (297 pages, Titan Books, September 2015, ) *''No Good Deed'' (288 pages, hardback, Forge Books, September 2018, )

A Fire Beneath the Skin

# ''Ink Mage'' (400 pages, paperback, 47North, October 2013, ) # ''The Tattooed Duchess'' (368 pages, paperback, 47North, July 2015, ) # ''A Painted Goddess'' (400 pages, paperback, 47North, March 2016, )

Comics

*'' Punisher MAX Special: Little Black Book'' (with Jefte Palo,

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, August 2008) *''

: Revolver'' (with Das Pastoras, one-shot,

, August 2009) *''The Punisher: Frank Castle MAX'' #71-74 (with

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, MAX, August–November 2009) *''

: Merc With a Mouth'' #1-13 (with Bong Dazo, Marvel Comics, September 2009 - September 2010) * "Great Balls of Thunder on the Deep Blue Sea" (with

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, in ''Deadpool'' #900, December 2009) *''Prelude to Deadpool Corps'' (with an issue each by

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Whilce Portacio William "Whilce" Portacio (; born July 8, 1963) is a Filipino American comic book writer and artist noted for his work on such titles as '' The Punisher'', ''X-Factor'', '' Uncanny X-Men'', ''Iron Man'', '' Wetworks'' and '' Spawn''. Portacio wa ...

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, Paco Medina and

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, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, May 2010) *''Deadpool Corps'' #1-12 (with Rob Liefeld, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, June 2010 - May 2011) *'' Death of Dracula'' (with

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, Marvel Comics, August 2010) *''

'' #1-29 (with Paco Medina, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, September 2010 – June 2012) *''Fear Itself: Hulk vs Dracula'' (with Ryan Stegman, 3-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, November 2011 - December 2011) *''Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike'' (with Paul Lee, 5-issue limited series,

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, August 2012 - December 2012)Dark Horse Announces Two New Buffy Spin-Offs: Spike and Willow
/ref> *''Conan: The Phantoms of the Black Coast'' (with Attila Futaki, 5-issue limited series,

, October 2012 - February 2013) *''

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'' #7-12 (with Aaron Campbell, ongoing series,

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, October 2012 – April 2013) *''Kiss Me Satan'' (with Juan Ferreyra, 5-issue limited series,

, September 2013 – present) *''Clown Fatale'' (with Maurizio Rosenzweig, 4-issue limited series,

, November 2013 – present) *''Noir'' (with Andrea Mutti, 5-issue limited series,

, November 2013 – present) *''Sally of the Wasteland'' (with Tazio Bettin, 5-issue limited series,

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, August 2014 – present)

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