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Jo Duffy
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Biography
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Jo Duffy, also credited as Mary Jo Duffy, is an American comics writer and editor. She joined Marvel in the late 1970s and wrote titles including Power Man and Iron Fist, Star Wars and Doctor Strange. Her editorial career included work within Marvel’s Epic imprint.
Duffy also worked on the English-language adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira. Her role involved shaping the English script and its placement on the page after translation, within a production process that also adapted the artwork for the Epic edition. This work connects her superhero and science-fiction writing with an important early route through which Japanese manga reached English-language comics readers.
Reviewed 2026-09-06Selected sources
- Marvel — Women of Marvel welcomes Jo DuffyMarvel career and writing credits.
- Grand Comics Database — Jo DuffyName variants and editorial roles.
- ChronOtomo — The Making of Akira: The Epic Comic, Part IIReproduction of the contemporary production account distinguishing Duffy’s adaptation and balloon placement from the initial translation.