Roy William Thomas Jr. (born November 22, 1940) is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E. Howard's character and helped launch a sword and sorcery trend in comics. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes – particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America – and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's X-Men and The Avengers, and DC Comics' All-Star Squadron, among other titles. Among the comics characters he co-created are Wolverine, Vision, Doc Samson, Carol Danvers, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Ultron, Yellowjacket, Defenders, Man-Thing, Red Sonja, Morbius, Ghost Rider, Squadron Supreme, Invaders, Black Knight (Dane Whitman), Nighthawk, Havok, Banshee, Sunfire, Thundra, Arkon, Killraven, Wendell Vaughn, Red Wolf, Red Guardian, Daimon Hellstrom, Brother Voodoo and Valkyrie. Thomas was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2011 and into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame in 2022. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Thomas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• VisionQuest — Characters
• Wonder Man — Thanks
• 2025Captain America: Brave New World — Thanks
• Daredevil: Born Again — Thanks
• Eyes of Wakanda — Thanks
• 2025Red Sonja — Adaptation
• 2025Thunderbolts* — Thanks
• Agatha All Along — Thanks
• 2024Deadpool & Wolverine — Characters
• 2024Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One — Characters
• 2024Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three — Characters
• X-Men '97 — Thanks
• 2023Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — Thanks
• 2023Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — Thanks
• 2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — Thanks
• Moon Knight — Thanks
• 2022Morbius — Thanks
• Ms. Marvel — Thanks
• 2022Thor: Love and Thunder — Thanks
• 2022Werewolf by Night — Characters
• 2021Black Widow — Thanks
• Hawkeye — Thanks
• Loki — Thanks
• The Falcon and the Winter Soldier — Thanks
• WandaVision — Characters, Thanks
• What If...? — Thanks
• DC's Stargirl — Thanks
• Helstrom — Characters
• 2019Captain Marvel — Thanks
• 2018Black Panther — Thanks
• 2018Team Darryl — Characters
• 2017Logan — Thanks
• Marvel's Iron Fist — Comic Book
• Marvel's The Defenders — Comic Book
• DC's Legends of Tomorrow — Thanks
• 2016Red Sonja: Queen of Plagues — Characters
• The Flash — Thanks
• 2011Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — Characters
• Young Justice — Characters
• 1997Conan — Co-Producer
• Conan the Adventurer — Characters
• G.I. Joe Extreme — Writer
• Xena: Warrior Princess — Story
• Conan the Adventurer — Writer
• Super Force — Writer
• 1985Red Sonja — Characters
• 1984Conan the Destroyer — Story
• 1983Fire and Ice — Screenplay
• 1960Tall Story — Spectator (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (13)

• 2026Stan Lee: The Final Chapter — Self
• 2023Stan Lee — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Marvel's Behind the Mask — Self
• Slugfest — Self
• 2019A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian — Self
• 2019Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee — Self
• 2019Geek, and You Shall Find — Self
• 2017Batman & Bill — Self
• Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics — Self
• 2016Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years — Self
• 2014Diagram for Delinquents — Himself
• 2007Sin and Salvation: The Comic Book Origin of Ghost Rider — Himself
• 2007The Legends Behind the Comic Books — Self