Mike Curtis

Mike Curtis is an American writer who scripts the Dick Tracy comic strip with Joe Staton as artist. He has been working professionally in comic books as a writer since the mid-1980s. He has also been a newspaper editor, deputy sheriff, comic book publisher, movie theater manager, TV horror movie host, Santa Claus for 39 years in the family tradition and is a Baptist minister. Curtis is currently best known for Dick Tracy, but he is also the third largest collector of Superman memorabilia in the United States. He has been exhibiting and writing about Superman since 1973. In the 1970s he was a horror movie TV Host on Channel 6 in Jackson, Tennessee, as Count Basil on Shock Theater. He brought back the character in 2010 as horror host guest at the SIVADS OF MARCH event in Memphis, Tennessee honoring that city's horror host. In the 1980s, Curtis entered the comic book field by writing Richie Rich, Casper The Friendly Ghost and New Kids on the Block for Harvey Comics. While there, he also designed the Harvey Enchanted Forest map and scripted several pilots for Casper TV series and specials.