{{short description|American lawyer and writer (born 1952)}} {{Other people|Bob or Robert Ingersoll|Robert Ingersoll (disambiguation)}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox comics creator | image = 10.15.11BobIngersollByLuigiNovi1.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Ingersoll at the 2011 New York Comic Con. | birthname = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|10|13|mf=y}} | birthplace = | deathdate = | deathplace = | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | area = | cartoonist = | write = y | pencil = | ink = | letter = | color = | edit = | publish = | alias = | signature = | notable works = "The Law is a Ass"<br>''Donald Duck''<br>''The Green Hornet''<br>''House of Mystery''<br>''Justice Machine''<br>''Moon Knight'' | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = | subcat = }} '''Robert Ingersoll''' (born October 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and writer. Ingersoll's full-time occupation was an appellate attorney with the Cuyahoga County Public Defender Office in Cleveland, Ohio, until he retired in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kleefield |first1=Sean |title=The Fantastic Four, Incorporated |url=http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2012/08/the-fantastic-four-incorporated.html |website=Kleefield on Comics |access-date=12 August 2024 |date=2 August 2012}}</ref> He is more widely known for his writing, in particular his work in comic books.
==Career== Comic series he has written for include ''Donald Duck'', ''The Green Hornet'',<ref>{{cite web |title=NOW Comics |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/now_comics |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |access-date=12 August 2024 |date=16 September 2021}}</ref> ''House of Mystery'', ''Justice Machine'', ''Mickey Mouse'', ''Moon Knight'' and ''Star Trek: All of Me''. He was also a frequent contributor for Innovation Comics where he contributed to the ''Lost in Space'' and ''Quantum Leap'' comic books as well as being the regular writer on ''Hero Alliance''.
Since 1983 Ingersoll has written "The Law Is a Ass" (sic; the title comes from Mr. Bumble's dialogue in Charles Dickens' ''Oliver Twist'' and preserves the character's grammatical error), a regular column in ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', which was also published online by World Famous Comics.com from 1999 to 2003.<ref name="s546">{{cite book | last=Weiner | first=R.G. | title=Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | series=Academic & Nonfiction Books anthology | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-7864-5340-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQD0WX6czQAC&pg=PA147 | access-date=2024-08-12 | page=147}}</ref><ref name="u033">{{cite book | last=Cremins | first=B. | title=Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia | publisher=University Press of Mississippi | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-4968-0879-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CiCHDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA156 | access-date=2024-08-12 | page=156}}</ref> The column examines the depiction of the law in comics and other fiction and compares it humorously to the reality of legal practice. On February 14, 2014 Ingersoll revived "The Law Is a Ass" on the ComicMix web site.
He is also the writer of several prose works. He wrote the horror story ''Making the Leap'' which was published in ''Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions'' (2003, {{ISBN|0-7582-0099-4}}). He is the co-author (with his fellow Comic Buyer's Guide columnist Tony Isabella) of the short story ''If Wishes Were Horses...'' (which was published in ''The Ultimate Super Villains'', {{ISBN|1-57297-113-4}}, in 1996) and the novels ''Captain America: Liberty's Torch'' (1998 {{ISBN|0-425-16619-8}}) and ''Star Trek: The Case Of The Colonist's Corpse (A Sam Cogley Mystery)'' (2003, {{ISBN|0-7434-6497-4}}).<ref name="x703">{{cite book | last=Phoenix | first=J. | title=Maximizing the Impact of Comics in Your Library: Graphic Novels, Manga, and More | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-4408-6886-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8t_EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136 | access-date=2024-08-12 | page=136}}</ref> He is co-author (with fellow comic-book creator Thomas F. Zahler) of the short story "'Til Death", which was published in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Sky's the Limit'' in 2007.
In 1987 (in the pages of ''Secret Origins'' #14), writer John Ostrander named a piece of legislation in the fictional DC universe the "Ingersoll Amendment".
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==External links== {{Commons category|Bob Ingersoll}} *[http://www.comicmix.com/author/bob-ingersoll/ at ComicMix]
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