James Dale Robinson is a British writer of comic books and screenplays who is also known for his interest in vintage collectibles and memorabilia. James Robinson has been writing for over two decades, with an early comics work, "Grendel: The Devil's Whisper", appearing in the 1989 series of British anthology A1. In 1997, Robinson's work on the title garnered him an Eisner Award for "Best Serialized Story".Also at DC, he did a miniseries involving the company's original Vigilante character as well as producing the Sandman spin-off mini-series Witchcraft for Vertigo. Robinson also wrote a brief but very well remembered run of Wildcats, teamed up with artist Travis Charest, that further developed the book's mythology, along with a spinoff mini-series called Team One.
Similarly, he served as a transition writer on the Marvel Comics titles, Cable and Generation X. Leave It to Chance, created by Robinson with penciller Paul Smith, won Robinson two more Eisner Awards in 1997, for "Best New Series" and "Best Title for Younger Readers".
His other work includes Ectokid, one of the series created by horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker for Marvel Comics' Razorline imprint, and Firearm for Malibu Comics' Ultraverse line.
Robinson has previously written the Batman story "Blades" as one of his several stints at writing stories for the anthology title Legends of the Dark Knight.
On February 8, 2008, Robinson was appointed the new writer of the DC flagship title, Superman; this run included the storyline "The Coming of Atlas". He wrote the 2009-2010 mini-series Justice League: Cry for Justice and took over writing duties on Justice League of America in October 2009 with art by Mark Bagley.. Robinson was joined by artist Brett Booth on Justice League of America in February 2011. Robinson said in 2010 he will write a series starring The Shade, a character closely identified with his Starman series.
In addition to his work in comics, Robinson wrote the screenplay for the 1993 direct-to-video film Firearm, and wrote and directed the 2002 feature Comic Book Villains, starring Cary Elwes and Michael Rapaport, as well as producing the screenplay for the 1995 film Cyber Bandits (with Martin Kemp, Alexandra Paul, Grace Jones and singer Adam Ant). In 2009, he and Jann Jones, co-ordinating editor of the Johnny DC comics imprint, announced their engagement.