# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walt-simonson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:37:17.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walt-simonson"
name: "Walt Simonson"
slug: "walt-simonson"
description: "Walter Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics' Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill. He is also known for the creator-owned work Star Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis. He has also worked on other Marvel titles such as X-Factor and Fantastic Four, on DC Comics books including Detective Comics, Manhunter, Metal Men and Orion, and on licensed properties such as Star Wars, Alien, Battlestar Galactica and Robocop vs. Terminator."
tagline: "American comic book writer and artist (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/4.20.08WaltSimonsonByLuigiNovi.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1946-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.802248339294839
  historical:           11.60943733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "WalterSimonson"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1277476/"
    handle:    "nm1277476"
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    title: "Walt Simonson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Simonson"
    title: "Walt Simonson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Simonson"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Simonson"
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    title: "Walter Simonson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "월트 사이먼슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walt Simonson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump