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Jenny Blake Isabella,
Martin Pasko to Receive
2026 Bill Finger Award

Jenny Blake Isabella and Martin Pasko have been selected to receive the 2026 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The selection, made by a blue-ribbon committee chaired by writer-historian Mark Evanier, was once again unanimous.

“As is always the case, the judges considered many nominations that were submitted to us and we picked two that stood out as the right choices,” Evanier remarked. “Both writers met our criteria of having generated a large and significant body of work that hasn’t received proper recognition and probably not proper compensation.”

Jenny Blake Isabella broke into comics under the birthname of Tony Isabella on Halloween 1972, being hired as an editorial assistant at Marvel Comics. The name Tony Isabella soon appeared as editor on Marvel’s British line as well as their line of black-and-white magazines in America. Soon, it also appeared in the writing credits of various Marvel comics, including Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Ghost Rider, The Champions, the Tigra feature in Marvel Chillers, and It!, The Living Colossus. For DC Comics, he wrote Hawkman and co-created Black Lightning with artist Trevor VonEeden. In 2025, she came out as transgender as Jenny Blake Isabella, as depicted in her autobiographical story for the anthology comic, DC Pride 2025.

Martin Pasko (1954–2020) began writing comics in 1972 for Warren Publishing and in 1973 began a long association with DC Comics and especially with editor Julius Schwartz, who gave him the nickname of “Pesky Pasko.” It was based on Pasko’s long presence on the letter pages in Schwartz’s comics, but soon Pasko was writing the exploits of, among other characters, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Dr. Fate, Metal Men, Swamp Thing, and the whole Justice League of America. He also wrote Star Trek titles for both DC and Marvel. Later in his career, he wrote for animated TV shows including Thundarr the Barbarian, Batman: The Animated Series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many more. He left us in 2020 from natural causes.