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Biography

Early career

Englehart's first work in comics was as an art assistant to Neal Adams on a story in Vampirella Vol. 1, #10 (March 1971). However, Englehart found his true calling as a writer. Influenced by writer Roy Thomas, who edited his first stories for Marvel, Englehart brought a complex, freewheeling style to Marvel's comics, (Avengers #105-151; Captain America #153-186; Defenders #1-11) often dealing with philosophical or political issues in a superhero story, such as a celebrated run on Captain America (with artists Sal Buscema and Frank Robbins) that reflected the then-ongoing Watergate scandal. Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 (April 1970), the first of a landmark run by artist Neal Adams and writer Denny ONeil. ... Vampirella is a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J. Ackerman for Warren Publishings namesake black-and-white horror-comics magazine, and developed by Archie Goodwin with artists Frank Frazetta and Tom Sutton. ... Roy Thomas (born November 22, 1940, Missouri, United States) is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lees first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. ... Captain America, the alter ego of Steve Rogers (in some accounts Steven Rogers), is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... Cover to Avengers Annual #17. ... Frank Robbins served as the penciler on Power Man #32-34 (1976) His work also appeared in Captain America, Detective Comics, Fear, Ghost Rider, House of Mystery, House of Secrets, Human Fly, The Invaders, Man From Atlantis, The Shadow and Weird War Tales. ... The term Watergate refers to a series of events, spanning from 1972 to 1974, that gained its name from burglaries of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel complex in Washington, D.C.. Though then-President Nixon had endured two years of mounting political embarrassments, the...

Modern Age work

Englehart also wrote The Avengers from 1972 to 1976, and had a brief but potent run on Doctor Strange (originally with artist Frank Brunner, later with Gene Colan), in which Strange's mentor, the Ancient One, died, and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme. Englehart and Brunner, audaciously, also created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-neg ("Genesis" spelled backward) goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches the beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically, the original creation (Marvel Premiere #14). Editor-in-chief Stan Lee, seeing the issue after publication, wrote Englehart and Brunner to print a retraction saying this was not God but a god, so as to avoid offending religious readers. The writer and artist concocted a fake fan letter from a fictitious minister praising the story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter, and dropped the retraction order.^[1] The Avengers are a superhero team, consisting of many of Marvel Comics most popular heroes. ... Doctor Strange is a fictional comic book sorcerer and superhero in the Marvel Comics Marvel universe. ... American comic book artist, particularly known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s. ... Gene Colan (born September 1, 1926) is an American comic book illustrator who sometimes worked under the name Adam Austin. ... In the Marvel Universe, The Ancient One was Dr. Stranges mentor and previous sorceror supreme. ... Stan Lee at the 1973 San Diego comic con Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922, New York, New York) is an American writer, editor, Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist, who — with several artist co-creators, especially Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko — introduced complex, naturalistic...

Englehart notably reconciled the existence of Captain America and sidekick Bucky in Marvel's 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics, an anomaly that had been ignored since Cap's 1964 reintroduction to Marvel, in which his newly-retconned history stated that he had been in suspended animation since the end of World War II, when Bucky had been killed. (Captain America #155-156) Atlas Comics is the 1950s comic book publishing company that would evolve into Marvel Comics. ... Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to the act of changing previously established details of a fictional setting, often without providing an explanation for the changes within the context of that setting. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

DC Comics

In 1976, after a dispute with incoming Marvel editor-in-chief Gerry Conway, Englehart moved to DC Comics. There he wrote Justice League of America, with artist Dick Dillin (Justice League of America #139-146,149,150), and a critically lauded eight-issue arc of Batman stories in Detective Comics #469-476, (with pencilers Walt Simonson and Marshall Rogers and inker Terry Austin). Englehart temporarily left comics at this juncture, moving to Europe before his first issue of Detective was published. During this time he wrote a fantasy/occult novel, The Point Man (Dell Publishing, Aug. 1981, ISBN 0-440-12378-X). Gerard F. Gerry Conway (September 10, 1952 - ) is an American writer of comic books and television shows. ... The Justice League is a DC Comics superhero team. ... Richard Allen Dick Dillin (b. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still sometimes as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Categories: Comics stubs | Batman | DC Comics titles ... In producing a comic book, the penciller (or penciler) draws the comic based on the script created by the writer. ... Star Slammers graphic novel (1983) Walter or, usually, Walt Simonson (born September 2, 1946) is a comic book writer and artist. ... Marshall Rogers is a comic book artist who has worked for Marvel and DC Comics since the 1970s. ... The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book, or graphic novel. ... Terry Austin is an American comic book artist, working primarily as an inker. ... Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to the knowledge of the secret or knowledge of the hidden and often popularly meaning knowledge of the supernatural, as opposed to knowledge of the visible or knowledge of the measurable, usually referred to as science. ... Dell Publishing was an American publisher of books, magazines, and comic books. ...

His run on Detective Comics was reprinted into trade paperback in 1999 as Batman: Strange Apparitions (ISBN 1-56389-500-5). In 2006, Englehart reunited with Rogers and Austin on the miniseries Batman: Dark Detective (reprinted as a trade paperback, ISBN 1-4012-0898-3). A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ...

Return to Marvel

In 1983, Marvel's creator-owned imprint Epic Comics published Coyote, a series he had earlier created at Eclipse Comics with Rogers, in collaboration with artist Steve Leialoha (and later Chas Truog and Todd McFarlane). Creator ownership is an arrangement in which the creator or creators of a work of fiction retain full ownership of the material, regardless of whether it is self-published or by a corporate publisher. ... Epic Comics was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s. ... Coyote is a comic book character created by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers for Eclipse Comics that was first published in Eclipse Magazine. ... Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several influential indendent publishers during the 1980s. ... Cover for Spider-Woman #8 (November 1978). ... Spawn #1 (1992), featuring one of McFarlanes most popular creations Todd McFarlane (born March 16, 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur. ...

Englehart returned to mainstream comics later that decade with stints on West Coast Avengers, the second Vision and the Scarlet Witch miniseries (with artist Richard Howell), and Fantastic Four (during which editorial disputes led to his using the pseudonym John Harkness)^[2], and The Silver Surfer. The West Coast Avengers was a spin-off superhero team of the Avengers, as well as the title of their comic book series. ... The Fantastic Four is Marvel Comics flagship comic book superhero team, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and debuting in The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. ... The Silver Surfer as illustrated by Alex Ross on the cover of Marvels #3 (1994). ...

Other work

Around this time, Englehart also wrote DC Comics' Green Lantern, and in 1987 wrote the DC crossover series Millennium. In 1992, he co-created the Ultraverse comics universe for Malibu Comics. His Malibu creation Night Man was later adapted for a syndicated television series. Cover to Green Lantern: Rebirth #6, art by Ethan Van Sciver. ... The Ultraverse was the name given to a comic book imprint published by Malibu Comics. ... Malibu Comics was a comic book publisher in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles. ... Night Man (or NightMan) was an American television program running from September 1997 to May 1999. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...

Englehart wrote a screenplay for an as-yet unmade film, Majorca. The screenplay was published as a book by Black Coat Press. ^[3], He has admitted to writing the novel Hellstorm in the TALON Force series under the house pseudonym of Cliff Garnett. ^[4],

In the 2000s, Englehart has combined occasional comics writing with scripting for TV and computer games and writing books. He has also written a number of series novels under house pseudonyms.^[5] This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

Quotes

Steve Englehart: "We'd rampage around New York City. There was one night when a bunch of us, including Jim Starlin, went out on the town. We partied all day, then did some more acid, then roamed around town until dawn and saw all sorts of amazing things (most of which ended up in Master of Kung Fu, which Jim and I were doing at the time)." ^[6]

Footnotes

References

• Steve Englehart official site
• The Grand Comics Database
• Batman-On-Film.com Batman on Film (Nov. 27, 2006): Steve Englehart interview]