Kelly attended Freeport High School and went on to receive his MFA at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he still teaches Writing for Animation/Writing for Comics. At NYU, he was recruited into Marvel Comics' editor James Felder's Stan-hattan Project, a program that trained potential comic book writers at the university. After six months of working in the class, Felder offered Kelly a job scripting Fantastic Four 2099 over a Karl Kesel plot.[1] Kelly took the assignment, but his first published work for Marvel was 1996's 2099: World of Tomorrow #1–8 and Marvel Fanfare vol.2 #2–3.
In 1997, Kelly began his first monthly assignment, Deadpool, initially pencilled by Ed McGuinness. The title was immediately well received by fans and critics. At one point it was due to be canceled with #25, but a write-in and Internet campaign by fans led Marvel to reverse their decision. Kelly left the title with #33 in 1999. In 1997, Kelly also became the writer of Daredevil, on which he was accompanied by well-known Daredevil artist Gene Colan.
At around the same time he produced a Daredevil/Deadpool '97 Annual with artist Bernard Chang which pitted the two characters against each other and was generally well received. Kelly left Daredevil with #375 in 1998.
Kelly's next major Marvel assignment was in late 1997, at the company's then bestselling title, X-Men, where he worked with penciller Carlos Pacheco. However, Kelly's stint on the title, and his friend Steven T. Seagle's run on sister title Uncanny X-Men, was cut short when the creators quit, blaming constant editorial interference. Kelly's last issue was #85 in 1999.
Kelly then began to work for Marvel's competitor DC Comics, specifically their Action Comics title starring Superman with #760 in October 1999. He stayed on the title for almost five years (up until #813, May 2004), working mainly with penciller Pasqual Ferry.
In December 2000, Kelly had a short stint as writer on the Superboy comic (#83–93), again mostly working with his Action Comics collaborator Ferry.
In 2002 he began a long run on DC's JLA (#61–93) comic book with penciller Doug Mahnke. After their run on that title finished the same creative team launched a twelve-issue limited series Justice League Elite featuring some of the characters from Action Comics #775.[2][3]
Kelly and Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada prepare a March 31, 2012 sneak preview of Ultimate Spider-Man for fans at Midtown Comics in Manhattan, the day before the series' broadcast TV debut.
Kelly has produced three creator-owned works: Steampunk, pencilled by Chris Bachalo and published by DC through Wildstorm'sCliffhanger imprint in 2000 (a second part, Drama Obscura, brought closure to the story, but Kelly has said he intends to eventually continue the book); M. Rex with penciller Duncan Rouleau, which was published by the now-defunct Avalon Studios (it was canceled after two issues); and Ballast, with penciller Ilya, a one-shot published by Active Images.[4]
Kelly is a part of the Man of Action collective of creators (along with Joe Casey, Duncan Rouleau, Steven T. Seagle), who created the series Ben 10, currently airing on Cartoon Network. Around the same time Ben 10 began to air, he was also hired as a story editor on TMNT: Fast Forward. With Man of Action Studios, he is also a Supervising Producer on Disney/Marvel's Disney XD series, Ultimate Spider-Man.
Kelly wrote the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "My Neighbour Was a Skrull" featuring the Skrulls, as well as the series premiere of Chaotic, a new animated series based on the trading card game. He also co-wrote Darksiders, a video game for THQ.
In 2007, he shot a short film, Brother's Day, which was a selection in the Brooklyn International Film Festival.
Deadpool Classic Volume 5 (collects #26–33 and the Baby's First Deadpool Book one-shot, tpb, 272 pages, 2011, ISBN0-7851-5519-8)
Deadpool by Joe Kelly Omnibus (collects #0–33, -1, Annual '97 and '98, Baby's First Deadpool Book and the short story from Deadpool vol. 2 #900, hc, 1,160 pages, 2014, ISBN0-7851-8559-3)
"Norah's Last Night in NYC" (with J. M. Ken Niimura, co-feature in #647, 2010)
Spider-Man/Deadpool #1–5, 8–10, 13–14 and 17–18 (with Ed McGuinness, 2016–2017) collected as Spider-Man/Deadpool by Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness (hc, 264 pages, 2018, ISBN1-302-90372-1)
Non-Stop Spider-Man #1–5 (with Chris Bachalo, Dale Eaglesham (#1) and Gerardo Sandoval + Cory Smith (#5), 2021) collected as Non-Stop Spider-Man: Big Brain Play (tpb, 128 pages, 2022, ISBN1-302-92748-5)
"A Hero's Journey" (with Pasqual Ferry, Duncan Rouleau and various artists, in #800, 2003)
"The Harvest" (with Tom Raney (#801), Tom Derenick (#802) and Pasqual Ferry, in #801–805, 2003)
"Hungry Ghost" (with Pasqual Ferry, in #806–808, 2003)
"The Creeping Death" (with Pasqual Ferry, in #809, 2004)
Superman: The Man of Steel — Believe (digest-sized tpb, 128 pages, 2013, ISBN1-4012-4705-9) includes:
"Walking Midnight" (with Pasqual Ferry, Kano, Duncan Rouleau, Dave Bullock and Renato Guedes, in #810, 2004)
Superboy vol. 3 #83–93 (with Pasqual Ferry, Paco Medina (#86–87) and Carlo Barberi (#89); issues #87–90 and 92–93 are co-written by Kelly and Eddie Berganza, 2001)
"This is Your Life, Part 3" (with Ed Benes, Tom Derenick, Karl Kerschl, Duncan Rouleau, Dale Eaglesham and Ed McGuinness, in Adventures of Superman #649, 2006)
"Captain Stoneheart and the Truth Fairy" (with Chris Bachalo, in #7, 2007) collected in Volume 1: Wounded Animals (hc, 168 pages, 2007, ISBN1-58240-691-X; tpb, 2008, ISBN1-58240-934-X)
This issue was reprinted in a separate volume with bonus material and a CD featuring a reading of the story as Captain Stoneheart and the Truth Fairy (hc, 80 pages, 2008, ISBN1-58240-865-3)
"Planet of the Ungulates" (with Peter Gross, co-feature in The Pilot one-shot, 2007) collected in Volume 2: Fatal Diseases (hc, 168 pages, 2009, ISBN1-60706-088-4; tpb, 2010, ISBN1-60706-177-5)
Four Eyes #1–4 (with Max Fiumara, 2008–2010) collected as Volume 1: Forged in Flames (tpb, 96 pages, 2010, ISBN1-60706-292-5)
Four Eyes: Hearts of Fire #1–4 (with Max Fiumara and Rafael Ortiz (#2–3), 2016) collected as Volume 2: Hearts of Fire (tpb, 104 pages, 2016, ISBN1-63215-806-X)
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