Gillis worked on Micronauts, Doctor Strange, What If...?, and a number of fan-favorite sci-fi titles.
Peter B. Gillis, a retired comic book writer whose best-known work came in the 1980s for Marvel and First Comics, has died. He was 71 years old. Gillis's career spanned five decades, beginning in 1978 and remaining extremely active throughout the 1980s. He worked sporadically after that, most recently on IDWs' 2010 adaptation of The Last Unicorn.
Gillis is arguably best known for the First Comics title Shatter, which was the first mainstream American comic published using art that was done directly on a computer. Created by and Mike Saenz, Shatter is a dystopian sci-fi series written by Gillis and featuring art by Saenz created in MacPaint on a Macintosh Plus. During his time at First Comics, Gillis also did long runs writing Warp and Starslayer .
At Marvel, Gillis similarly had a 20-issue run on Strange Tales, a Doctor Strange title, as well as a four-issue miniseries featuring the character. He wrote the bulk of Strikeforce: Morituri, a sci-fi series set within Marvel's multiverse, with artist Brent Anderson. He also wrote issues of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and a number of popular issues of Marvel's What If...?, making him primarily a Marvel talent in the minds of many readers.
— Marvel Entertainment June 21, 2024 Marvel was announcing based on a post shared to social media by Gillis's brother, Rob Gillis, who shared the following message to Facebook:Many of you know my brother Peter has been struggling almost the the last two years with health issues. Getting better, getting much worse, getting much better, getting far worse.
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