Terry Collins

Writer, Teacher, Researcher, Poet

GRAPHIC NOVELS / PRINT FICTION & NON FICTION

Archie Comics             Archie's Pal Jughead (monthly writer), assisted with creating a new direction and look for the iconic character.

Caliber Press             Explorers, an original creator-owned adventure series about Xenology, Inc, a family of scientists and adventurers who travel the world seeking out the unknown. Critically-acclaimed and called by one reviewers as “a cross between Jonny Quest and The Fantastic Four. “All-ages title with co-creator Bill Neville.

Capstone Publishing            Written over twenty titles under the Capstone umbrella, most recently a “choose your own ending” book on Ancient China, a picture book on how to use punctuation and grammar “whatever says mark,” and a cause and effect title on the Westward Migration. Upcoming titles include a biography on John Deere, a graphic novel study of survivors of major earthquakes, and a series of Scooby-Doo non-fiction titles explaining the “truth” behind zombies, ghosts and sea monsters.

UNMASKING MONSTERS WITH SCOOBY-DOO 

Scooby-Doo and the Truth Behind Ghosts (2015)

Scooby-Doo and the Truth Behind Sea Monsters (2015)

Scooby-Doo and the Truth Behind Zombies (2015)

HISTORY CHRONICLES 

Nickolas Flux and the Gold Rush

Nickolas Flux and the Attack on Pearl Harbor                                                

AMERICAN GRAPHIC

Elvis Presley: A Graphic Novel

Robert E. Lee: The Story of the Great Confederate General

Michael Jackson: King of Pop

Louis Armstrong: Jazz Legend           

GRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS 

Digging For Pompeii

Building the Great Wall of China

Tracking Bigfoot

The Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellers

Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming

Bigfoot and Adaptation

CARTOON NATION

The FBI

Liberty

Women’s Right to Vote

Custom Comics            RaceWarrior, a weekly series tie-in with NASCAR / Winston Cup Racing for the year 2000-01. Part of the concept and development team, as well as series writer. Corporate sponsors included 7-UP and Lance Snacks. Estimated distribution of each issue was an amazing 1,000,000 copies!

DC Comics                Hundreds of scripts for the Looney Tunes and Cartoon Network line of titles: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, The Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote, Tasmanian Devil, Sylvester & Tweety, Tiny Toon Adventures, Secret Squirrel, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Cow & Chicken, Scooby-Doo, Funky Phantom, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, & Yogi Bear.

Explorer Press            The Andy Griffith Story, an acclaimed full-length biography on the life and career of the famous North Carolina actor. Remains the only comprehensive and full-length biography on Griffith to date.

Harlequin/Gold Eagle            Mainstream adult Science Fiction novels under the house name of "James Axler." Word counts approximately 90,000-100,000 words. The last of the three, Dark Emblem, was rated by fans and critics as one of the most accompshed Deathlands novels ever written in the decades old series.

DEATHLANDS

Watersleep                       

Freedom Lost           

Dark Emblem           

Heinemann Library            Authored two graphic novels under the "24 Hour History" banner, in which a detailed and extensively researched look is taken at a 24 hour period of crucial American history. Titles:The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Image Comics            Geminar,  an original creator-owned graphic novel about a reluctant space-fairing super-hero. Stellar artwork by co-creator Al Bigley.

Innovation                  Lost in Space, Quantum Leap, Lucifer's Hammer

Kappa Books                         Three lines of licensed coloring and activity books featuring DreamWorks animated film properties. Created all puzzles and interior prose. Books were published in 32, 48 and 96 page configurations.

KUNG FU PANDA

Panda Power

Panda-Monium

Kung Fu Crew

Go Po!

MADAGASCAR 2

Mane Man

Just Plane Crazy

Crateful of Characters

Flight of the Penguins

MONSTERS VS ALIENS 

Monster Mission

Freedom Fight

Aliens Attack!

Living Large

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON

Fired Up

Mighty & Mean

Landoll's   Wrote the entire line of titles (picture books, story books, coloring/activity books) based on the Dreamworks motion picture SMALL SOLDIERS. Also wrote for the Dreamworks properties ANTZ and CHICKEN RUN. Created several original seasonal story books for Christmas and Halloween. Wrote assorted Bible-themed activity books and a series of juvenile titles based on Hanna-Barbera's SCOOBY-DOO.

Marvel Comics   Four issue mini-series Coneheads, featuring the characters from NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Numerous issues of the now-legendary Nickelodeon animated series The Ren and Stimpy Show.

McGraw Hill   Lead writer and researcher for McGraw-Hill’s “Jamestown Education” imprint on the American History Ink and World History Ink series of graphic novels (10 books per series). Each series spotlighted pivotal events in history for children and middle grade readers by setting fictional protagonists in the midst of real world events. Titles included: The Underground Railroad, The Taj Mahal, Internment of Japanese Americans, Hurricane Katrina, The Civil Rights Movement, The Cattle Drives, and numerous others.

Millennium    Assorted action and horror mini-series titles: Doc Savage: Doom Dynasty, Doc Savage: Repel, H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (modern day revival), Captain Satan, Anne Rice's The Witching Hour.

NEP Press                 The Tick: Karma Tornado (part of FOX KIDS NETWORK animated series).

Simon and Schuster            Twenty juvenile novels, 8X8 books, coloring/activity books, chapter books and picture books based on the Nickelodeon stable of characters. Selected by Steven Spielberg & Universal Studios to write E.T. Junior novelization for the “Special Edition” Movie Re-Release.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

Tea at the Treedome

The World’s Greatest Valentine

SpongeBob NaturePants (New York Times Bestseller)

JIMMY NEUTRON

Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

Chew On This!

Canine Catastrophe

Too Many Jimmys

CATDOG 

The Perfect Bone

A Rancid Little Christmas

Catdog's New Car

The Icky Icky Island of Doctor Devine

ROCKET POWER

Avalanche Trail

Hit The Streets!

Surf’s Up!

High Flying Sam

BOB THE BUILDER 

Bob’s Bedtime

Bob's Christmas Surprise

RUGRATS

Spike Speaks!

THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS 

A Scary Oddparents Halloween

E.T. 

E.T. Junior Novelization

WaRP Graphics            Elfquest: Blood of Ten Chiefs (monthly writer), Elfquest: New Blood, Elfquest: Two Spear (five issue mini-series) – hailed by critics as one of the finest graphic novel series ever published in the Fantasy genre.