Mike Costa


Mike Costa is an American comic book and television writer. His first published work was 2008's The Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor with artist Fiona Staples for WildStorm. He also wrote Resistance, a comic book series based on the Resistance video games. Costa has written Transformers for IDW. Costa is currently writing IDW Publishing’s G.I. Joe: Cobra and Blackhawks for DC Comics.
His work on the GI Joe franchise was critically acclaimed and lauded by Brian K. Vaughan as an example of a licensed comic equal in quality to mainstream or creator-owned works.
He began writing for the FOX TV show Lucifer in its first season, and became a producer after it moved to Netflix during the fourth season.

Wildstorm

  • Secret History of The Authority: Hawksmoor
  • *Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor collects:
  • ** "Uptown & Downtown"
  • ** "Housing & Development"
  • ** "Bridge & Tunnel"
  • ** "Parks & Recreation"
  • ** "Highways & Byways"
  • ** "Town & Country"
  • Resistance
  • *Resistance collects:
  • ** "Dancers On A Plane"
  • ** "False Start"
  • ** "Fool's House"
  • ** "Untitled"
  • ** "Target With Five Faces"
  • ** "White Flag"

    IDW Publishing

  • G.I. Joe: Cobra vol. 1
  • * volume 1 collects:
  • ** "Charmer"
  • ** "In The Grass"
  • ** "Oil"
  • ** "Eyes"
  • ** "Cobra"
  • The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #13, "Uneasy Lies the Head", #16, "The Man of Steel collected in Volume 4
  • The Transformers #1-31
  • *Volume 1: For All Mankind collects:
  • ** "...For All Mankind"
  • ** "Things Fall Apart"
  • *Volume 2: International Incident collects:
  • ** "All His Engines"
  • ** "Scrapper"
  • ** "International Incident"
  • *Volume 3: Revenge of the Decepticons collects:
  • ** "Heart Like A Wheel"
  • ** "Revenge of the Decepticons"
  • *Volume 5: Chaos Theory collects:
  • ** "Space Opera"
  • ** "Chaos Theory"
  • *Volume 6: Police Action collects:
  • ** "Police Action"
  • ** "Ride-Along"
  • *Volume 7: Chaos collects:
  • ** "Chaos"
  • ** "Pax Cybertronia"
  • G.I. Joe: Cobra vol. 2 #1-13
  • *Volume 2 collects:
  • ** "Forked Tongue"
  • ** "Scales"
  • ** "Fangs"
  • ** "Cold-Blooded"
  • ** "Chameleon: Changing Colors; Speed Trap"
  • *Volume 3 collects:
  • ** "Serpent's Tale, Part 1: The Nest"
  • ** "Serpent's Tale Part 2: The Nest"
  • ** "Serpent's Tale part 3: Green Dreams"
  • ** "Serpent's Tale Part 4: Viper's Nest"
  • ** "Serpent's Tale, Part 5: Viper's Nest"
  • *Volume 4 collects:
  • ** "Sidewinder"
  • ** "Constrictor"
  • ** "Rattler"
  • ** "King Cobra"
  • The Transformers: Ironhide
  • *The Transformers: Ironhide collects:
  • ** "The Iron Age"
  • ** "Iron In The Blood"
  • ** "Ironing Out the Details"
  • ** "Any Old Iron"
  • G.I. Joe: Cobra vol. 3 #0-21
  • *G.I. Joe: Cobra Civil War Compendium collects:
  • ** "G.I. Joe: Cobra Civil War" #0
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 3"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 6"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 9"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 12"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 15"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 18"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 21"
  • ** "Cobra Civil War Part 24"
  • *G.I. Joe: Complete Cobra Command collects:
  • ** "Cobra Command Part 3"
  • ** "Cobra Command Part 6"
  • ** "Cobra Command Part 9"
  • ** "The Last Laugh: Cobra Command Aftermath"
  • *G.I. Joe: Cobra - Son of the Snake collects:
  • ** "Son of the Snake, Part 1: A New Era"
  • ** "Son of the Snake, Part 2: G.I. Joe Underground"
  • ** "Son of the Snake, Part 3: Lies and Betrayals"
  • ** "Son of the Snake, Part 4; The Hunt is On!"
  • *G.I. Joe: Cobra - Oktober Guard collects:
  • ** "Oktober Guard, Part 1: Blood Lines"
  • ** "Oktober Guard, Part 2: Oktober is Coming!"
  • ** "Oktober Guard, Part 3: The Ocktober Guard"
  • ** "Oktober Guard, Part 4: Oktober is Burning!"
  • ** "Oktober Guard, Part 5: Oktober Ends!"
  • Smoke and Mirrors
  • Haunted Horror #2-3, #5-8
  • G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files #1-9
  • *Volume 1 collects:
  • ** "Snakes and Tigers"
  • *Volume 2 collects:
  • ** "The Boy Most Likely To....."
  • ** "The House Always Wins"
  • G.I. JOE: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra
  • *G.I. JOE: Snake Eyes, Agent of Cobra collects:
  • ** "Part One: The Tin Man"
  • ** "Part Two: The Dark Sister"
  • ** "Part Three: The Lost Boy"
  • ** "Part Four: Knight Errant"
  • ** "Part Five: The Silent Warrior"

    DC Comics

  • Blackhawks #1-6
  • *Volume 1: The Great Leap Forward collects:
  • ** "Blackhawks"
  • ** "Blades"
  • ** "Beauty"
  • ** "Bones"
  • ** "Burial"
  • ** "Obsolescence Part 1: Technical"
  • ** "Obsolescence Part 2: Functional"
  • ** "Obsolescence Part 3: Planned"

    Marvel Comics

  • A+X #6, "The Thing + Gambit"
  • All-New X-Men/Indestructible Hulk/Superior Spider-Man Team-Up: The Arms of the Octopus
  • Scarlet Spiders
  • * Spider-Verse collects:
  • ** "The Widow"
  • ** "The Other"
  • ** "The Hero"
  • Avengers: Millennium
  • Spider-Verse vol. 2
  • Web Warriors #1-11
  • *Volume 1: Electroverse collects:
  • ** "Static"
  • ** "Charge"
  • ** "Capacity"
  • ** "Resistance"
  • ** "Insulation"
  • *Volume 2: Spiders Vs. collects:
  • ** "Nobody Knows Nothing"
  • ** "Tangled States - Part One: Anarchy"
  • ** "Tangled States - Part Two: Technocracy"
  • ** "Tangled States - Part Three: Brave New World"
  • ** "Tangled States - Part Four: Monarchy"
  • ** "Tangled States - Part Five: Democracy"
  • Venom vol. 3 #1-6
  • *Volume 1: Homecoming collects:
  • ** "Homecoming"
  • Venom vol. 1 #150-165
  • Venom: First Host #1-5

    Avatar Press

  • God Is Dead #1-48
  • *Volume 1 #1-6
  • *Volume 2 #7-12
  • *volume 3 #13-18
  • *Volume 4 #19-24
  • *Volume 5 #25-30
  • *Volume 6 #31-36
  • *Volume 7 #37-42
  • *Volume 8 #43-48

    Boundless Comics

  • Belladonna #0
  • Lookers #0

    Personal life

Mike Costa lives in Los Angeles, California where he is a writer and producer on Lucifer.