Background
Gentile was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
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Joe Gentile
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He is also known as a comic book writer and author Personal life
He is also the owner of a chain of comic book stores located in Illinois called Amazing Fantasy, which has 4 locations in the southside of Chicago. Publisher
Other well-known writers featured in more than one Moonstone publication include Craig Shaw Gardner, John Jakes, Peter David, Nancy Kilpatrick, Will Murray, Silvestre Szilagyi, Ron Goulart, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Max McCoy, Robert Weinberg, Robert J Randisi, James Reasoner, Robert Morrish and Max Allan Collins.
Comic writer
A lifelong comic book fan, Gentile"s forays into comic books have dealt with both original previously established media characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
All were published by Moonstone Books. He wrote an original graphic novel The Mysterious Traveler with art by Trevor Von Eeden, and two Sherlock Holmes comic book storylines in The Scorned Mistress Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #1, and followed it with a "Sherlock Holmes and The Clown Prince of London" with interior art by Rich Gulik and cover art by Drew Tucker.
In addition to Sherlock Holmes, he has also written for Buckaroo Banzai including "Return of the Screw", a three-issue story arc. = Print Gentile released his prose fiction short story, The Shrug of Atlas, in Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles.
The collection was nominated for a Bram Stoker award and led to the release of a follow-up volume, Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook, in 2007, which featured Gentile"s story "Until Tomorrow".
The first book was a success, selling out its first printing, and the second volume was also an unqualified success. The third Kolchak anthology is due 2008 from Moonstone Books. In 2007, Gentile"s story "The Mad Gasser of Mattoon" appeared in The Spider Chronicles, also from Moonstone Books.
