# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-jurgens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:34:37.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-jurgens"
name: "Dan Jurgens"
slug: "dan-jurgens"
description: "Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline \"The Death of Superman\" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, Jon Kent, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for seven years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995."
tagline: "American comics artist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Jurgens_GalaxyCon_Minneapolis_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1959-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.12
  momentum:             2.216358839050132
  historical:           5.929666666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/thedanjurgens"
    handle:    "thedanjurgens"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1439564/"
    handle:    "nm1439564"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://danjurgens.com/index.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jurgens"
    title: "Dan Jurgens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jurgens"
    title: "Dan Jurgens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jurgens"
    title: "Dan Jurgens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%84_%EC%A0%80%EA%B1%B4%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "댄 저건스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jurgens"
    title: "Dan Jurgens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Jurgens"
    title: "Dan Jurgens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump