As a writer and editor Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1976 as an assistant to Larry Lieber at Marvel Comics. At
Marvel Comics in the 1980s, he edited the
Spider-Man titles as well as
Marvel Team-Up and
Ka-Zar. Fingeroth was the group editor of the Spider-Man titles from 1991 to 1995, including the first part of the clone saga. As a writer, Fingeroth worked on
Darkhawk, writing all 50 issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on
Dazzler, wrote the
Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and
Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the
Howard the Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including
Avengers,
Daredevil,
Iron Man and
What If?, as well as the
Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel. Fingeroth resigned from Marvel in 1995 to become editor-in-chief of Virtual Comics for
Byron Preiss Multimedia and
AOL. From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of
Showtime's
WhirlGirl, for which he served as story editor. He edited
Write Now! (
TwoMorrows Publishing), a magazine about the craft of comics writing that he created, which ran for 20 issues from 2003 to 2009. He wrote the 2004 Continuum Publishing book
Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society. Fingeroth also wrote
The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels (featuring artwork by
Mike Manley).
As an educator and public speaker , Danny Fingeroth,
Arie Kaplan,
Jerry Robinson and Eddy Friedfeld at a
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art event, August 2006. Fingeroth has taught comics writing at
New York University,
The New School,
Media Bistro and Soho Gallery for Digital Art. He has been a speaker at the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium at
Parsons The New School for Design. He has also taught classes, and functioned as organizer, moderator and curator of events at the
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. In 2012, Fingeroth along with Karen Green, Graphic Novels Librarian (Columbia University) and Jeremy Dauber, Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (Columbia University) organized Comic New York , a symposium marking writer
Chris Claremont's donation of his archives of all his major writing projects over the previous 40 years to the university's
Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The symposium, which was held March 24–25, 2012 at Columbia's
Low Memorial Library, featured discussion panels with Fingeroth, Claremont, and numerous other mainstream and independent comics creators. ==Selected works==