Mike Conroy is an ex-comic book retailer best known for co-creating the Eagle Awards in 1976. An accountant by profession, in the mid-1990s he concentrated on his freelance writing, ultimately replacing Phil Hall as news editor of the trade magazine Comics International.
He also writes for Panini, Eaglemoss, and SFX among others, primarily in his role as a comics historian. For Chrysalis/Collins & Brown, he has written two books on comics, 500 Comicbook Action Heroes (2002) and its companion 500 Comicbook Villains (2004).
In December 2006 it was announced that Cosmic Publications had bought Comics International from Dez Skinn's company Quality Communications, and Conroy was to be the title's new editor.