Sam Humphries


Sam Humphries is an American comic book writer located in London. Between 2018 and 2020, he co-hosted DC Daily on the DC Universe streaming platform.

Early life

Humphries was born in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Career

Humphries began his career in the early 2000s as a Consulting Editor for Gutsoon! Entertainment and, as part of his duties to "monitor the chatter" around the American comic book industry, joined the Warren Ellis Forum where he got acquainted with several professional and aspiring comic book creators. After the dissolution of Gutsoon!, Humphries went on to work at MySpace, where he developed several projects including the network's comics section and its most popular feature, MySpace Dark Horse Presents, the digital revival of Dark Horse's signature anthology series that had been canceled several years prior. Between 2010 and 2011, Humpries was a co-host on Meltcast, the official podcast of the comic book store Meltdown Comics.
Humphries made his debut as a writer in 2010, contributing short stories to Fraggle Rock and a CBGB-themed anthology published by Boom! Studios. In 2011, he self-published Our Love is Real, a sci-fi animal sex comic that brought him to the attention of comic book publishers. The following year, he was hired by Marvel to write an adaptation of John Carter: The Gods of Mars and take over the scripting duties of Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates after the departure of Jonathan Hickman. During his run on The Ultimates, Humphires wrote the storyline involving Captain America becoming the President of the United States, which received nation-wide coverage in the news. In 2013, he launched the second volume of Uncanny X-Force and wrote an Age of Ultron spin-off series, Avengers A.I.. After signing an exclusive contract with Marvel, Humphries worked on Legendary Star-Lord, one of the Guardians of the Galaxy spin-off series launched in anticipation of the 2014 film, and developed the multi-title crossover storyline "The Black Vortex". In 2016, Humphries joined DC Comics, launching Green Lanterns as part of the company's DC Rebirth initiative. In 2018, he took over Harley Quinn, staying on the title for the next two years. That same year, it was announced Humphries would resurrect the Silver Age title Dial H for Hero for Wonder Comics, DC's "pop-up" imprint curated by Brian Michael Bendis.
Humphries' creator-owned comics include his second self-published series Sacrifice with Dalton Rose, Jonesy with Caitlin Rose Boyle, published by Boom! Studios, and Blackbird with Jen Bartel, published by Image.
In addition to his work in comics, Humphries was a contributing writer for several comics-oriented websites such as Artbomb, Comic Book Resources and ComicsAlliance. In 2014, he co-wrote the mobile fighting game Marvel Contest of Champions, developed by Kabam.

Personal life

Humphries has epilepsy.

Early work

  • Free Comic Book Day 2010: Mouse Guard Spring 1153/Fraggle Rock: "The Birthday Present"
  • * Collected in Fraggle Rock Volume 1
  • * Collected in Fraggle Rock Omnibus
  • Our Love is Real
  • Sacrifice #1–6 collected as Sacrifice
  • Ahoy, Booty!: "Beach Bums"

    Boom! Studios

  • CBGB OMFUG #1: "The Helsinki Syndrome" collected in CBGB OMFUG
  • Fanboys vs. Zombies collected as:
  • *Wrecking Crew 4 Lyfe
  • *Appetite for Destruction
  • *Escape From San Diego
  • Higher Earth and Joe Eisma collected as:
  • *Volume 1
  • *Volume 2
  • Jonesy collected as:
  • *Volume 1
  • *Volume 2
  • *''Volume 3''

    Marvel Comics

  • John Carter: The Gods of Mars #1–5 collected as John Carter: The Gods of Mars
  • Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates, Billy Tan, Timothy Green II, Dale Eaglesham, Scot Eaton and Joe Bennett collected as:
  • *Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman Volume 2
  • ** Issues #10–12 are scripted by Humphries from Jonathan Hickman's plots.
  • *Ultimate Comics: Divided We Fall, United We Stand
  • *Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates by Sam Humphries Volume 1
  • Uncanny X-Force vol. 2, Adrian Alphona, Dexter Soy, Dalibor Talajić, Ramón K. Pérez, Angel Unzueta, Philippe Briones and Harvey Tolibao collected as:
  • *Let It Bleed
  • *Torn and Frayed
  • *The Great Corruption
  • Avengers A.I. collected as:
  • *Human After All
  • *12,000 A.D.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy:
  • *Legendary Star-Lord and Andrea Sorrentino collected as:
  • ** Face It, I Rule
  • ** Rise of the Black Vortex
  • *Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men: The Black Vortex includes:
  • ** Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men: The Black Vortex Alpha
  • ** Guardians Team-Up #3: "The Black Vortex, Chapter Six"
  • ** Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men: The Black Vortex Omega
  • *Secret Wars: Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde #1–3 collected as Secret Wars — Battleworld: Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde
  • *Star-Lord vol. 2 collected as:
  • ** First Fly
  • ** Out of Orbit
  • The Avengers vol. 5 #34.2: "Big City" collected in Avengers World: The Complete Collection
  • Secret Wars: Planet Hulk #1–5 collected as Secret Wars — Warzones: Planet Hulk
  • Weirdworld #1–6 collected as ''Weirdworld: Where Lost Things Go''

    DC Comics

  • Green Lanterns, Ronan Cliquet, Ed Benes, Miguel Mendonça, Neil Edwards, Carlo Barberi and Scott Godlewski collected as:
  • *Rage Planet
  • ** Includes the Green Lanterns: Rebirth one-shot
  • *The Phantom Lantern
  • *Polarity
  • *The First Ring
  • *Out of Time
  • Legion of Super-Heroes/Bugs Bunny Special collected in DC Meets Looney Tunes
  • Manhunter Special: "The Demon and the Infernal Prisons" collected in Jack Kirby 100th Celebration Collection
  • Batman: The Dawnbreaker collected in Dark Nights: Metal — Dark Knights Rising
  • Nightwing vol. 4 #35–41, Klaus Janson and Phil Jimenez collected as Nightwing: The Untouchable
  • Harley Quinn:
  • *Harley Quinn vol. 3, Sami Basri, Lucas Werneck, Otto Schmidt and Abel collected as:
  • ** Harley vs. Apokolips
  • ** Harley Destroys the Universe
  • ** The Trials of Harley Quinn
  • ** The Final Trial
  • ** Hollywood or Die
  • *Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red #15: "Happy Thanksquinning" collected in Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red
  • Dial H for Hero and Paulina Ganucheau collected as:
  • *Enter the Heroverse
  • *New Heroes of Metropolis
  • Dark Nights: Death Metal — Infinite Hour Exxxtreme: "Chapter Three" collected in ''Dark Nights: Death Metal — The Multiverse Who Laughs''

    Other publishers

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  • Image:
  • *Citizen Jack #1–6 collected as Citizen Jack
  • *Blackbird #1–6 collected as Blackbird: The Great Beast
  • Attack on Titan Anthology: "Playtime on Titan"
  • Goliath Girls #1–5
  • * The series was released simultaneously in English and Japanese