Ben Raab


Benjamin Raab is an American screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer and editor.
WWW benraab.com

Early life

Raab is a native of Cedarhurst, New York, and attended Lawrence High School. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Composition.

Career

Raab made his Marvel debut as an interviewer for artist Gary Kwapisz in Marvel Age Special: The Punisher Anniversary Magazine. In the letters section of X-Men vol. 2 #31, Raab was announced as the new assistant editor on X-Men books edited by Bob Harras, receiving that credit on several titles cover-dated April 1994 to September 1996, including X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine, X-Force and Generation X. During that time, Raab also joined New York University's Stan-hattan Project. Administered by his editorial colleague James Felder, the project sought out and trained potential comic book writers.
Written work by Raab includes stints on The Phantom and Excalibur as well as the second of volume of X-Men/Alpha Flight and Union Jack with artist John Cassaday for Marvel Comics. For DC Comics, Raab penned a number of issues on Green Lantern following Judd Winick's run, co-wrote several Teen Titans-centric short stories and mini-series with Geoff Johns as well as The Human Race mini-series, the Elseworlds one-shot JLA: Shogun of Steel and several titles for the Wildstorm imprint. Later work includes the four-issue series Living in Infamy for Ludovico Technique, co-written with Deric A. Hughes, and the 96-page graphic novel The Phantom: Legacy, a retelling of the character's origin. In 2009, Raab served as the editor for The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks series by Moonstone Books. In 2012, Raab and artist Pat Quinn began self-publishing their 8-issue series Cryptopia, previously released as a one-shot via Image.
Raab and his writing partner Deric A. Hughes were staff writers on Warehouse 13 writing their first episode "Duped" which aired August 25, 2009. They penned seven episodes over the 5 season run and eventually became the producers on the final season. In 2015, Raab and Hughes joined Beauty & the Beast as supervising producers penning four episodes of the show. Following the series conclusion, they contributed to the 2016–2017 season of The Flash writing the episode "King Shark", before joining Season 3 as co-executive producers and writers. The duo subsequently joined the writing team of the third season of Scream and acted as writers and producers for the final season of Arrow.

Marvel Comics

As editor

Assistant editor:
Reprint editor:

As writer

DC Comics

Wildstorm

Other publishers

  • Lee Falk's Fantomen :
  • * "Simsons bojor"
  • * "Domedagssekten"
  • * "Ödets spjut"
  • * "I maffians våld"
  • * "Hjälten"
  • * "Den osynlige Fantomen"
  • * "Det första uppdraget"
  • * "Trollkarlens lärling"
  • Cryptopia :
  • *Image Introduces... Cryptopia
  • * Issues #2–3 were self-published digitally under the Wondermasons label.
  • * Issues #4–5 were self-published digitally via Comixology under the Wondermasons label.
  • The Phantom :
  • *The Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks includes:
  • ** The Phantom: The Ghost Killer
  • ** The Phantom: The Singh Web
  • *The Phantom: The Hunt
  • *The Phantom vol. 5 :
  • ** The Phantom: Death in the Deep Woods collects:
  • *** "Stones of Blood"
  • *** "Curse of the Phantom"
  • ** "The Aviatrix"
  • ** "Nanamaru"
  • *The Phantom: Legacy and the Law collects:
  • ** The Phantom: Legacy
  • ** The Phantom: Law of the Jungle
  • *The Phantom: Generations #1 collected in The Phantom: Generations
  • *The Phantom: Ghost Who Walks #5–12
  • Comiculture #1–2: "The Lost Tribe"
  • Vampirella vol. 2 #13–14: "Wilding Sanction, Parts 3 and 4"
  • Moonstone Monsters: Sea Creatures: "Croaked"
  • Vampi: Vicious Rampage #1–2
  • Living in Infamy #1–4
  • 7 Brothers vol. 2 #1–5 collected as 7 Brothers: The Blood That Runs
  • Space Doubles: Set the Controls: "AKA"
  • Warehouse 13 #1, 5 collected as Warehouse 13
  • Heavy Metal #283: "Der Fischerhaus"
  • ''Love is Love''