Mindy Newell

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Newell graduated from high school in 1971.{{Cite web|url=https://www.comicmix.com/2017/10/30/the-legendary-mindy-newell/|title=The Legendary Mindy Newell?|first= Mindy|last= Newell|date= October 30, 2017|publisher=Comicmix.com|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180930034021/https://www.comicmix.com/2017/10/30/the-legendary-mindy-newell/|archivedate= September 30, 2018|url-status= live|df= mdy-all|quote= Mindy Newell knows that if she could do it all over again she’d have gone to college for screenwriting and film editing. Instead she became a nurse to please her parents and pleasing your parents was what it was all about for nice Jewish girls who graduated from high school in 1971.}} She then attended the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to study nursing. Following her nursing schooling, Newell enrolled at Quinnipiac University and studied biology while working as a nurse.

A longtime fan of comics, particularly of Marvel's Spider-Man, Mindy Newell sent submissions to DC Comics in 1983 at a time when the company was actively looking for new talent. Her first professional work was her creation of the character Jenesis, which appeared in three issues of New Talent Showcase.{{cite journal|last= Greenberger|first= Robert|author-link= Robert Greenberger|title= New Talent and Bonus Babies|journal= Back Issue!|issue= 71|pages= 65–71|publisher= TwoMorrows Publishing|date= April 2014|location= Raleigh, North Carolina}} Editor Karen Berger called her in for an interview four days after DC received her submission.

Hired by editors Dick Giordano and Karen Berger, Newell wrote fill-in issues for Legion of Super-Heroes and Action Comics.{{gcdb|type=credit|search= Mindy+Newell|title= Mindy Newell}} While working as part of the new talent program, Newell became the writer of Wonder Woman.{{cite web |url= http://fivequestionswith.wordpress.com/mindy-newell/|title= Five Questions With...|first= Gail|last= Simone|author-link = Gail Simone|date= n.d.|publisher= Fivequestionswith.wordpress.com|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120309220431/http://fivequestionswith.wordpress.com/mindy-newell/|archivedate= March 9, 2012|url-status= live|df=mdy-all|accessdate= November 21, 2010}} She was the first credited woman to write the Wonder Woman series in an ongoing capacity but was limited in what she could write due to editorial mandates. In 1986, Newell and artist Gray Morrow collaborated on a Lois Lane limited series which dealt with the subject of missing children.{{cite journal|last = Zeno|first = Eddy|title = In Search of Social Issues The Real and Fictional Heroes of DC Comics|journal = Back Issue!|issue = 57|page = 57|publisher = TwoMorrows Publishing|date = July 2012|location= Raleigh, North Carolina}} In addition, Newell wrote Wonder Woman and Her Sister's Keeper, a seminal Catwoman limited series.{{cite book|last1=Manning|first1= Matthew K.|last2=Dolan|first2=Hannah, ed.|chapter= 1980s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|year=2010|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 239 |quote = Written by Mindy Newell, with art by J.J. Birch, Catwoman picked up where Frank Miller's "Year One" story arc left off.}} Newell also briefly worked on First Comics's American Flagg and Eclipse Comics's The New Wave.

Newell has always maintained a career as a nurse while writing comics, and has since returned to that occupation full-time.

Newell is a full-time nurse and mother, while still contributing to comics and other projects. Her former husband, John Higgins, is a British comic book writer, illustrator, and letterer.{{cite web|url=https://www.geek.com/comics/comics-trailblazer-mindy-newell-on-catwoman-marvel-and-beyond-1727170/|title= Comics Trailblazer Mindy Newell on Catwoman, Marvel, and Beyond!|first= Joseph|last= Corallo|date= January 5, 2018|publisher= Geek.com|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180930081129/https://www.geek.com/comics/comics-trailblazer-mindy-newell-on-catwoman-marvel-and-beyond-1727170/|archivedate= September 30, 2018|url-status= live|df= mdy-all}}

• Choices: A Pro-Choice Benefit Comic Anthology for the National Organization for Women #1 (1990)

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• Action Comics (Superman) #566 (1985), (Catwoman) #611–614 (1988)
• Amethyst vol. 2 #12, 15–16, Special #1 (1985–1986)
• Amethyst vol. 3 #1–4 (mini-series, 1987–1988)
• Catwoman #1–4 (mini-series, 1989)
• Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 (1986)
• Heroes Against Hunger #1 (two pages only, 1986)
• Legionnaires 3 #1–4 (with co-author Keith Giffen, pencils by Ernie Colón and inks by Karl Kesel, mini-series, 1986)
• Lois Lane #1–2 (art by Gray Morrow, miniseries) (1986)
• New Talent Showcase #5, 7–11, 13 (1984)
• Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #315–317, 320–325 (1984–1985)
• V #7 (1985)
• Wonder Woman #326–328 (1985)
• Wonder Woman vol. 2 #36–46, 49 (1989–1990)

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• Miracleman #8 (The New Wave preview) (1986)
• The New Wave #1–13 (1986–1987)
• The New Wave vs. the Volunteers #1–2 (1987)
• Tales of Terror #3 (1985)

• American Flagg! #46–49 (scripting over Howard Chaykin's plot, 1987)
• American Flagg! vol. 2 #1 (scripting over Howard Chaykin's plot, 1988)

• 2000 AD #1412–1419, with co-author and artist John Higgins (2004)

• Strip AIDS U.S.A. #1 (1988)

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• Daredevil Annual #10 (1994)
• Daredevil vs. Vapora #1 (1993)
• Marvel Comics Presents #135 (Black Widow) (1993)
• Power Pack Holiday Special #1 (1992)
• Thunderstrike #17 (1995)
• 2099 Special: The World of Doom #1 (1995)

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• Car Warriors #3–4 (Epic, 1991)
• Deathlok #25–27 (1993)
• The Marvel X-Men Collection #1–3 (1994)

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• [http://www.comicmix.com/author/mindy-newell/ Mindy Newell] at ComicMix
• {{Comicbookdb|type=creator|id=1710|title=Mindy Newell}}
• [http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/creator.php?creatorid=844 Mindy Newell] at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
• [http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/namn3.htm#N436 Mindy Newell] at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

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