Danette "Dann" Thomas is an American comic book writer, the wife of comic book writer and editor Roy Thomas.
Background
She has at times collaborated with Thomas on All-Star Squadron, Arak, Son of Thunder, the Crimson Avenger miniseries and Avengers West Coast. Her husband credits her with the original idea for Arak, Son of Thunder, noting, "Danette Couto (soon to be Dann Thomas) had this idea: What if a Native American had discovered Europe?" She began co-writing the Arak title with issue #12 (August 1982) and would work with Thomas on most of his projects afterwards.
Career
Dann Thomas" earliest comic book cr appears on "The Sea of Number Return" (credited as "Adapted from a story by Danette Couto") in Savage Sword of Conan #66 (July 1981). Dann Thomas co-wrote Wonder Woman #300 (February 1983) and, as Roy Thomas noted in 1999 "became the first woman ever to receive scripting cr on the world"s foremost super-heroine." Dann Thomas" last new comic book writing appeared in Cadillacs and Dinosaurs #9 (November 1994), published by Topps Comics. The superheroine Firebrand of the All-Star Squadron takes her civilian name, Danette Reilly, from Dann Thomas.
Dann Thomas co-wrote later issues of All-Star Squadron, subsequent to the introduction of Firebrand.
Another character based upon Dann Thomas is a woman named Danette who appeared in the story "What If Conan the Barbarian Walked the Earth Today?" published in What If? #13 (February 1979).