Marv Wolfman
Marvin, Marv ' A. Wolfman ( born May 13, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic book writer. Wolfman was best known as the creator of the comic book character Blade, but also as the author of series such as Teen Titans and Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Life and work
Wolfman began in 1968 to work as a professional comic book writer. After he had texted stories for various humorous series for various publishers, Wolfman went in 1974 with his friend Len Wein a strong bond with the market giants Marvel Comics one. There he took over in addition to his duties as editor and author of jobs, from 1975 as Editor -in- Chief.
As an author Wolfman wrote, among other stories for the series Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and Doctor Strange. However, his most important work at Marvel should the horror series Tomb of Dracula are for which he wrote hundreds of stories. Together with his friend, the artist Gene Colan, he created for Tomb of Dracula the series Blade that the theme of the Vamprismus in a modern way - re-interpreted - especially under inclusions of elements of biker culture. Almost 20 years after Wolfman had created initially only moderately successful figure of the vampire hunter and half- vampire Blade, the character experienced a sudden increase in popularity due to their processing in a number of movies in which the actor Wesley Snipes took on the lead role.
After a dispute with Marvel's editor in chief Jim Shooter returned Wolfman 1980 DC Comics back. There he took over the rebooted series The New Teen Titans which became the most popular and commercially successful series in the program of DC within a short time. His first partner at The New Teen Titans was the artist George Pérez. While Pérez left the series already mid-1980s, Wolfman was the title - which was continued under various names such as New Titans or Teen Titans - another ten years - a total of 1980 to 1995 nearly fifteen years - faithful. As the successor of Wolfman Perez were doing made artists such as Tom Grummett, Eduardo Barreto and William Rosado aside. The ink drawings took over artists such as José Luis García- López or Romeo Tanghal.
In the early 1980s Wolfman also worked on the series Batman, Superman ( with artist Gil Kane ), dial h for hero ( with Carmine Infantino ) and Nightforce ( with Gene Colan ).
1985/1986 put Wolfman and George Pérez, the twelve-part miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths before, with the DC celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, but above all put the restart of all of his series to the factory. Nearly fifteen years later Wolfman also wrote a avge on the Crisis series based novel of the same title, but the focus is mainly on the figure of the police officers and superhero Barry Allen.
After the end of the award winning Crisis miniseries Wolfman took over the Superman series Adventures of Superman, which he supervised until 1988. As a signatory of the Impressionist artist Jerry Ordway he was doing on the side. Then Wolfman wrote almost two years, from 1989 to 1991, stories for the traditional series Batman, most of which were put in the picture by Jim Aparo.
2005 Wolfman wrote the novelization of the movie Superman Returns before he took over the post of editor for the publisher Impact Comics 2006. More recently Wolfman created 12 issues of the series Nightwing (2006-2007 ), which is about the adventures of one of the most popular heroes in the publishing program of DC - the Wolfman himself had created in the early 1980s during his run on Teen Titans - as well as a mini-series about the Mage Raven. There were also works for selling direct selling video movies such as Condor for Pow Entertainment and Janus Contract for Warner Home Video.
Prizes and awards
Received to the prices Wolfman in time for his work include the Shazam Award for Best Author ( 1973), the Kirby Award in the category for best limited series (1985 ), as well as nominations for Favorite Author of the comics ' buyer's Guide Award in 1986 and 1989.