Tom Lyle
Thomas Stanford Lyle (November 2, 1953 – November 19, 2019) was an American comics artist, best known for his work on Starman and Robin for DC Comics, and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.
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- Birth Name
- Thomas Stanford Lyle
- Born
- 2 November 1953
- Birthplace
- Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
- Died
- 19 November 2019
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · illustrator
- Fields
- comic
- Languages
- English
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Thomas Stanford Lyle (November 2, 1953 – November 19, 2019) was an American comics artist, best known for his work on Starman and Robin for DC Comics, and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.
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• Birth Name — Thomas Stanford Lyle • Born — 2 November 1953 • Birthplace — Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. • Died — 19 November 2019 • Write — y • Pencil — y • Notable Works — The Comet Robin Spider-Man Starman • Website — http: tomlyle.blogspot.com/
Career
Career
Tom Lyle's comics career began in the mid-1980s penciling titles such Airboy, Strike!, and Airwolf for Eclipse Comics. From 1988 to 1990, he penciled DC Comics' Starman series with writer Roger Stern, introducing the second Blockbuster in Starman #9 (April 1989). Lyle worked on the first solo Robin limited series with writer Chuck Dixon. The series was reprinted a number of times, and led to two sequel miniseries – Robin II: Joker's Wild and Robin III: Cry of the Huntress – by the same creative team. Dixon and Lyle also co-created the Electrocutioner in Detective Comics #644 (May 1992) and Stephanie Brown in Detective Comics #647 (August 1992). Meanwhile, in 1991 he worked on The Comet for DC's Impact Comics imprint, which he pencilled and plotted, with writer Mark Waid contributing the scripts. In 1993, Lyle started working for Marvel Comics, as penciler of Spider-Man. He was one of the artists on the "Maximum Carnage" and "Clone Saga" storylines which ran through the Spider-Man titles, during which time he designed the original blue hoodie-and-red spandex costume worn by the Scarlet Spider, a clone of Spider-Man. He also co-created the character Annex in The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #27 with writer Jack C. Harris. Lyle penciled the three-issue miniseries Venom: Funeral Pyre, which co-starred the Punisher and introduced the villain Pyre. Lyle's other work for Marvel included Punisher vol. 3 with writer John Ostrander from 1995 to 1997, a Warlock mini-series which he wrote himself in 1998, and issues of Mutant X in 2000 and 2001. He drew several issues of Star Wars for Dark Horse Comics in 2000. He was the artist on the 2004 series Chickasaw Adventures for the Chickasaw Nation. Between 2005 and his death in 2019, he taught sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Tom Lyle is recorded with the occupation artist. Recorded as artist and illustrator.

Tom Lyle at a Comics Convention in NYC in 1992
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1953
Tom Lyle born at Jacksonville.
2019
Tom Lyle died.
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Tom Lyle was born at Jacksonville.
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- 1.Miller, John Jackson. Comics Industry Birthdays. Comics Buyer's Guide. June 10, 2005.
- 2.Marston, George. Tom Lyle Dies at Age 66. Newsarama. November 19, 2019.
- 3.Manning, Matthew K. DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. 235. 2010. 978-0-7566-6742-9.
- 4.credit. Tom+Lyle. Tom Lyle.
- 5.Manning, Matthew K. Batman: A Visual History. Dorling Kindersley. 177. 2014. 978-1465424563.
- 6.Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 248
- 7.Manning "1990s" in Dougall, p. 195
- 8.Manning "1990s" in Dougall, p. 196
- 9.Manning, Matthew K. Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. 263. 2008. 978-0756641238.
- 10.Manning "1990s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 274: "Continuing the epic 'Clone Saga', the team of artists Tom Lyle, Robert Brown, Roy Burdine, and Mark Bagley revealed the supposed final fate of the genius Jackal."
- 11.Lewis, Devin (Editor). "Scarlet Letters", Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider #1 (2017). Marvel Comics. p. 22
- 12.Cowsill, Alan. Spider-Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web-Slinging. Dorling Kindersley. 203. 2012. 978-0756692360.
- 13.ChickasawAdventures.com. Chickasaw Adventures.
- 14.Savannah College of Art and Design. Tom Lyle.
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