Tony Lee

Anthony John Lee (born 1970), known professionally as Tony Lee or by the pen name Jack Gatland, is a British comics writer, screenwriter, audio playwright, and novelist.

Early life Born in 1970, Tony Lee attended Hayes Manor School, now Rosedale College.

Career A #1 New York Times bestselling writer, Lee has written for various UK and US comic publishers including 2000 AD, IDW Publishing, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Del Rey and Walker Books. He has also worked on X-Men Unlimited, Doctor Who, Superboy, Star Trek, Starship Troopers, Sherlock Holmes and Spider-Man.

In 2023 it was announced that Lee was writing a 12-part series with Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson named The Mandrake Project , connected to his 2024 solo album of the same name for Z2 Publishing. The first four came out in 2024/25 and were collected into a "Year One" book - "Year Two" is being released at San Diego Comic Con in July 2026.

In 2008 Lee became the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who comic for IDW Publishing for both Tenth Doctor and Eleventh Doctor, and was one of the writers of the 2012 Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who crossover series.

Lee has also written audio dramas for Big Finish's Doctor Who, Confessions of Dorian Gray and Bernice Summerfield ranges, as well as a Robin of Sherwood audio drama for Spiteful Puppet / ITV. His novel Dodge & Twist was adapted by Lee into a full cast audio drama starring Matt Lucas for Audible/Amazon in 2019, and his adaptation of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and starring Adrian Lester was released in August 2020.

In April 2021, Lee announced that he had been writing crime novels under the pen name Jack Gatland and under his own Amazon-exclusive imprint, Hooded Man Media, since November 2020. Since that time, he has written over sixty novels focusing mainly on procedural, rural and cosy crime, as well as action thrillers. Under his own name, he has also been writing urban fantasies for Hooded Man Media.

As of July 2026, he has become a multi-million selling author because of this, with almost half a billion page reads on Kindle Unlimited.