Pete Morisi

Peter A. Morisi (January 7, 1928 – October 12, 2003),[1] who sometimes went by the pseudonym PAM, was an American comic book writer and artist who also spent much of his professional life as a New York City Police Department officer.

The series then took over the numbering of the defunct title Son of Vulcan, and ran from issue #51–60 (March–April 1966 – Nov. 1967),[4] by which time Morisi, time-pressed with police work, had turned it over to other hands.

[6] DC published the 12-issue, slightly retitled miniseries Peter Cannon – Thunderbolt (Sept. 1992 – Aug. 1993) by writer-penciler Mike Collins and inker José Marzan Jr.[4] Rights to the character later reverted to Morisi.

[7] A later incarnation, Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt, was published by Dynamite Entertainment for ten issues from September 2012 to July 2013, by Alex Ross, co-writer Steve Darnall, and Jonathan Lau.

[8] A trade paperback omnibus edition reprinting all ten issues was published by Dynamite Entertainment in March 2015, including a complete cover gallery and the origin story by Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt creator, Pete Morisi.

The characters’ faces and the comic's text reveal an odd disconnect: the dialogue and narration convey the situation's drama, yet the facial expressions don't.