14 Facts About Bob Haney

Bob Haney co-created the Teen Titans as well as characters such as Metamorpho, Eclipso, Cain, and the Super-Sons.

From 1948 to 1955 Bob Haney wrote crime and war comics for a number of publishers, including Fawcett, Standard, Hillman, Harvey, and St John.

In large part due to the anti-comic book campaign launched by Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in 1953, most of Bob Haney's publishers went out of business in the 1950s.

Bob Haney frequently claimed to have co-created the Doom Patrol with Arnold Drake and worked with him on the first few issues, but Drake insisted that Bob Haney worked on the first issue only, and that his only role in creating Doom Patrol was co-creating the character Negative Man.

In 1964, Bob Haney created the Teen Titans with artists Bruno Premiani and Nick Cardy.

Bob Haney stated in 1995 that "The most creative single thing I ever did was Metamorpho".

Bob Haney frequently disregarded continuity by scripting stories which contradicted DC's canon or by writing major heroes in an out-of-character fashion.

Bob Haney wrote the "Unknown Soldier" feature in Star Spangled War Stories in 1971 and 1972.

Bob Haney returned in 1977 and oversaw the series being renamed after the character.

When comics and animation work petered out in the late 1980s, Bob Haney turned to other forms of writing, including a book on carpentry.

Bob Haney died at age 78 on November 25,2004, in La Mesa, California.

Bob Haney is interred at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, California.

Bob Haney was awarded the Bill Finger Award posthumously in 2011.

Bob Haney's brother-in-law was Ned Chase, the father of actor Chevy Chase.