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{{Creator 
|name=Ben Raab
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|Born= New York City, October 13th, 1970.
|Died= N/A
|Nationality= [[Image:mini_usa.gif]] American
|Occupation=[[:Category:Writers|Writer]]
|Website= [http://www.benraab.com/ Ben Raab]
|Results=[[Image:Winner.jpg|16 px]] '''[[Best Story Norway|Best Story (Norway)]]''' [[Image:Winner.jpg|16 px]]<br><small>
[[Best story 2001 (Norway)|2001]]: "[[The Invisible Phantom]]"<br></small>
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'''Benjamin "Ben" Raab''' is a comic book writer and editor. He has written stories for [[Marvel Comics]], [[DC Comics]], [[Moonstone Books]], [[Egmont]], WildStorm, Malibu Comics, Harris Publications and Ludovico Technique LLC. 
== Biography ==
Raab is a native of Cedarhurst, NY, and attended Lawrence High School. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1992 with a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Composition. While an assistant editor at Marvel he joined New York University's ''Stan-hattan Project''. Administered by Raab's then Marvel editorial colleague James Felder, the project sought out and trained potential comic book writers. 

In 1999, Raab got in touch with the publishers of the Swedish ''[[Fantomen]]'' comic book and wrote scripts for their production of [[The Phantom|Phantom]] comics until 2003. When Raab learned that [[Moonstone Books]] had obtained the rights to produce Phantom comics in the US, he contacted them and offered his services. He was Moonstone's main Phantom writer from 2002 to 2006. One of his last Phantom projects for Moonstone was the graphic novel "[[Legacy]]", a re-telling of the Phantom's origin. According to Raab, this was his most ambitious project so far. 

Other writing work by Raab includes stints writing ''Excalibur'', ''New Mutants: Truth or Death'', ''Union Jack'' and ''X-Men/Alpha Flight''. He also had a run on Green Lantern and ''The Human Race'' for DC Comics, as well as the miniseries, ''Legend of The Hawkman''. For Ludovico Technique he wrote ''Living in Infamy''.

== Phantom work by Ben Raab ==

==== [[Team Fantomen stories]] ====

{| {{table}}
!# !!Title !!Writer !!Artist
|-
|1||"[[The Temple]]" || Raab || [[Joan Boix|Boix]]
|-
|2||"[[The Doomsday Sect]]" || Raab || [[César Spadari|Spadari]]
|-
|3||"[[The Spear of Destiny, Part 1]]" || Raab || [[Joan Boix|Boix]]
|-
|4||"[[The Spear of Destiny, Part 2]]" || Raab || [[Joan Boix|Boix]]
|-
|5||"[[The Spear of Destiny, Part 3]]" || Raab || [[Joan Boix|Boix]]
|-
|6||"[[The Spear of Destiny, Part 4]]" || Raab || [[Joan Boix|Boix]]
|-
|7||"[[Revenge of the Mafia]]" || Raab || [[Romano Felmang|Felmang]]
|-
|8||"[[The Hero]]" || Raab || [[Dan Davis|Davis]]
|-
|9||"[[The Invisible Phantom]]" [[Image:Winner.jpg|16px|Norway - 2001]] || Raab || [[Paul Ryan|Ryan]]
|-
|10||"[[The First Assignment]]" || Raab || [[Roy Mann|Mann]]
|-
|11||"[[The Apprentice]]" || Raab || [[Heiner Bade|Bade]]
|}

==== [[Moonstone stories]] ====
{| {{table}}
!# !!Title !!Writer !!Artist
|-
| 1 || "[[The Ghost Killer]]" || Raab || [[Fernando Blanco|Blanco]]
|-
| 2 || "[[The Singh Web]]"  || Raab || Blanco
|-
| 3 || "[[The Hunt]]" || Raab || [[Lou Manna|Manna]]
|-
| 4 || "[[Stones of Blood Part 1]]" || Raab || [[Pat Quinn|Quinn]]
|-
| 5 || "[[Stones of Blood Part 2]]" || Raab || Quinn
|-
| 6 || "[[Curse of the Phantom Part 1]]" || Raab || [[Nick Derington|Derington]]
|-
| 7 || "[[Curse of the Phantom Part 2]]" || Raab || Derington
|-
| 8 || "[[The Aviatrix Part 1]]" || Raab || Quinn, [[Ken Wheaton|Wheaton]]
|-
| 9 || "[[The Aviatrix Part 2]]" || Raab || Quinn, Wheaton
|-
| 10 || "[[Legacy]]" || Raab || Quinn
|-
| 11 || "[[Nanamaru]]" || Raab || [[Rich Burchett|Burchett]]
|-
| 12 || "[[Blackguard]]" || Raab || Quinn
|-
|}

==External links==
*[http://www.benraab.com/ Ben Raab official web site]
*[http://www.deepwoods.org/raab_interview.html Interview with Raab at Deepwoods.org]
*[http://marvel.com/catalog/?writer=Ben%20Raab Ben Raab on Marvel.com]
*[http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=4560 Small town villians: Ben Raab talks ''Living in Infamy'']

[[Category:Writers|Raab, Ben]]