Robert Ingersoll

Name:	Robert "Bob" Ingersoll
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Occupation:	Comic writer, short story writer, appellate attorney
Medium:	comics, prose
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Robert "Bob" Ingersoll is a fan turned professional comic and short story writer. He was an appellate attorney with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office in Cleveland, Ohio, until he retired in 2009.

Overview

Comic series he has written for include Donald Duck, The Green Hornet, House of Mystery, Justice Machine, Mickey Mouse, Moon Knight and Star Trek: All of Me. He was also a frequent contributor for Innovation Comics where he contributed to the Lost in Space and Quantum Leap comic books as well as being the regular writer on Hero Alliance.

Since 1983 Ingersoll has written "The Law Is a Ass" (sic; the title comes from Mr. Bumble's dialogue in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and preserves the character's grammatical error), a regular column in Comics Buyer's Guide, which was also published online by World Famous Comics.com from 1999 to 2003. The column examines the depiction of the law in comics and other fiction and compares it humorously to the reality of legal practice. On February 14, 2014 Ingersoll revived "The Law Is a Ass" on the ComicMix web site.

He is also the writer of several prose works. He wrote the horror story "Making the Leap" which was published in Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions (2003, ISBN 0-7582-0099-4). He is the co-author (with his fellow Comic Buyer's Guide columnist Tony Isabella) of the short story "If Wishes Were Horses..." (which was published in The Ultimate Super Villains, ISBN 1-57297-113-4, in 1996) and the novels Captain America: Liberty's Torch (1998 ISBN 0-425-16619-8) and Star Trek: The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse (A Sam Cogley Mystery) (2003, ISBN 0-7434-6497-4). He is co-author (with fellow comic-book creator Thomas F. Zahler) of the short story "'Til Death", which was published in Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Sky's the Limit in 2007.

In 1987 (in the pages of Secret Origins #14), writer John Ostrander named a piece of legislation "the Ingersoll Amendment" in the fictional DC universe.

Fannish Activity

Interviews

“I voted 10 times to save Robin, and I’ve got the $5 phone bill to prove it,” said Robert Ingersoll, a 36-year-old assistant public defender in Cleveland. “If I had known the margin would be only 72 votes, I would have voted 73 more times.”

While conceding that Robin’s character lacked definition, Mr. Ingersoll called his violent death gratuitous, since there were other ways to banish the Boy Wonder, like sending him to live in Addis Ababa with his long-lost mother, Dr. Sheila Haywood.

“For the first time in my life,” Mr. Ingersoll added, “I’m ashamed to be a comics fan.”

Dullea, Georgia. "Holy Bomb Blast! The Real Robin Fights On!" The New York Times. 1988-11-10.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ingersoll
• http://worldfamouscomics.com/law/^WBM
• https://www.comicmix.com/author/bob-ingersoll/^WBM
• Dullea, Georgia. "Holy Bomb Blast! The Real Robin Fights On!" The New York Times. 1988-11-10.