Steve Englehart

Steve Englehart ( born April 22, 1947 in Indianapolis ) ( pseudonyms: John Harkness, Cliff Garnett ) is an American comic book writer.

Life and work

Englehart began in the early 1970s to work in the comic book industry. His first published work, he delivered yet as a character wizard of the artist Neal Adams for a black and white story in the comic book Vampirella # 10 of Warren Publishing's Publishing House published in March 1971. The drawing, however, gave Englehart on a short time later to instead strive for a career as an author.

With the assistance of Roy Thomas Englehart received 1972 Author orders for different series of the publisher Marvel Comics. His most important work during this period, he for the series The Avengers, which he wrote 1972-1976. There were stories for the series Captain America and Doctor Strange. His artistic partner in both projects, the latter were the artist Sal Buscema and Frank Robbins or Gene Colan.

After a dispute with Marvel editor Gerry Conway Englehart moved in 1976 to DC Comics, Marvel's biggest rival, for whom he worked on the series Justice League of America and Detective Comics in the late 1970s. He was supported by the subscribers Dick Dillin ( Justice League ) and Walt Simonson or Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin. In particular, Englehart's eight-part run on Detective Comics is considered today by many critics as one of the highlights of the series and has been reprinted again and again, so as a mini series called "the Shadow of Batman " and the anthology under the title "Strange Apparitions ". Englehart's Batman story The Laughing Fish was founded in 1992 by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini in an episode of their animated series Batman: The Animated Series adapted.

After a brief move to Europe, during which he wrote the novel, The Point Man, which was published in 1981 by Dell Publishing's, Englehart returned as an author to Marvel Comics. His work in the 1980s, among other stories for the Marvel series West Coast Avengers, Fantastic Four, as well as for the mini-series Vision and the Scarlet Witch. For DC he wrote, meanwhile, the mini-series Millennium ( 1988) and some Green Lantern stories.

2005 was followed by the miniseries Batman: Dark Detective, for Englehart teamed up again with Austin and Rogers.

Further work Englehart are the screenplay and the novel Majorca Hellstorm.

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• Born in 1947
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