Scott Beatty has authored hundreds of adventures for many of comics’ most iconic characters including Batman and Robin tales for DC Comics, as well as The Phantom, Buck Rogers, and Sherlock Holmes for Dynamite Entertainment. Beatty has also contributed comic book stories to Antarctic Press, Crossgen Comics, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, and Marvel Entertainment.
Beatty co-wrote the critically acclaimed and best-selling Robin: Year One, Batgirl: Year One, Nightwing: Year One, and Joker: Last Laugh miniseries for DC with comics legend Chuck Dixon. Beatty’s and Dixon’s Batgirl: Year One—the middle arc of their Batman “Sidekick Trifecta” at DC—was named *Best Miniseries of 2003* by Wizard: The Comics Magazine and is considered the definitive Batgirl origin story. For its 20th Anniversary, DC Comics released an all-new softcover collection of Batgirl: Year One on September 26, 2023. A 20th Anniversary deluxe hardcover edition of Nightwing: Year One was released in August 2024, followed in September 2024 by a Batman Family Year One box set collecting all three Year One tales together for the first time!
Beatty's “Regnum Defende”—a two-part *Year One* styled origin of Batman’s valet Alfred Pennyworth as an agent of the British Secret Service—was one of the stories which inspired the recent Pennyworth streaming television series that lasted three seasons beginning on Hulu and concluding its run on HBOMax.
In addition to his comics work, Beatty has authored more than a dozen encyclopedic books about superheroes including DC Comics’ Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Justice League of America, and Marvel’s Avengers. Beatty’s “Ultimate Guides” for UK publisher Dorling-Kindersley in the early 2000s defined the standard for all genre character and movie guidebooks to follow. Beatty’s technically accurate The Batman Handbook, a literal guidebook on how to be the Dark Knight, was a top-selling title for Quirk Books.
Outside of comic books, Beatty has written G.I. Joe and Transformers animation for Hasbro, Inc.
Before he became a full-time freelance writer, Beatty launched ToyFare magazine as its founding Editor for Wizard Entertainment and guided it through its first two years of publication.
Beatty’s novels have included prose adaptations of his own Sherlock Holmes: Year One (Dynamite), in addition to the young readers hardcover Batman: Scarecrow's Panic Plot (DC/Capstone) and Tron Uprising: The Junior Novel (Disney).
Beatty's Loot Crate exclusive Star Wars Adventures: Destroyer Down graphic novel was the top selling comic book of 2017 with nearly a half-million copies shipped to LC subscribers.
In his role as superhero and pop culture scholar, Beatty has appeared on E! Entertainment Television and Prism Films documentaries, and is a frequent guest on comic book, graphic novel, and superhero podcasts. He is frequently called upon to write introductions and essays for superhero books and collected editions. Beatty wrote the foreword for DC Comics’ Batman in the Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1. His other recent works include the Marvel: Mini Book of Heroes and Mini-Book of Villains from Insight Editions.
