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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Comic book writer, Television writer, Producer |
| Years active | 2008 - present |
| Notable work | GI Joe: Cobra, Transformers, Resistance |
Mike Costa is an American comic book and television writer. His first published work was 2008's The Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor with artist Fiona Staples for WildStorm. He also wrote Resistance , a comic book series based on the Resistance video games. Costa has written Transformers for IDW. Costa is currently writing IDW Publishing’s G.I. Joe: Cobra and Blackhawks for DC Comics. [1]
His work on the GI Joe franchise was critically acclaimed and lauded by Brian K. Vaughan as an example of a licensed comic equal in quality to mainstream or creator-owned works.[ citation needed ]
He began writing for the FOX TV show Lucifer in its first season, and became a producer after it moved to Netflix during the fourth season.
Mike Costa lives in Los Angeles, California where he is a writer and producer on Lucifer .
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