Grant Morrison - Appearances As A Comics Character

Appearances As A Comics Character

Grant Morrison first appeared as a comics character with a cameo in Animal Man #14. He made a full appearance at the end of issue #25 in 1990, and spent most of issue #26 in a lengthy conversation with the comic's title character on the impact of realism on comic books. The character appears the next year in Suicide Squad #58, written by John Ostrander, as one of several minor characters killed in one of the series' trademark suicide missions.

In Morrison's 2005-2006 Seven Soldiers miniseries and its tie-ins, there is a group of seven "reality engineers" who look like him. An eighth goes rogue, transforming into the silver-age character Zor, "The Terrible Time Tailor", looking like Morrison in a magician's costume but with dark hair and a beard. This character is defeated and Morrison himself, wearing a DC Comics-logo tie clip, then becomes the narrator for the final chapter.

He appeared in an issue of Simpsons Comics, where he is seen fighting with Mark Millar over the title of "Writer of X-Men".

In the notes to the Absolute Edition of DC: The New Frontier, writer Darwyn Cooke mentioned that this version of Captain Cold was visually based upon Morrison.

Although Comics Bulletin's Thom Young speculated that the bald near-future Batman depicted in Batman #666 was Morrison, the writer denies it, crediting the similar appearance to artist Andy Kubert.