15 Facts About Don Perlin

Donald David Perlin was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor.

Don Perlin is best known for Marvel Comics' Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight, The Defenders, and Ghost Rider.

Don Perlin recalled he spent three weeks as a ghost artist pencilling over Jules Feiffer's layouts on Will Eisner's newspaper-insert comics feature The Spirit.

The group gave up the studio in 1953 when Don Perlin was drafted into the United States Army.

From 1955 to 1958, Don Perlin concentrated on war comics for Charlton Comics, while turning in the occasional assignment for Atlas.

Don Perlin's credited output slowed after that, and he took on work in technical illustrating and package design for several years.

Don Perlin had continued in commercial art and package design as his primary employment all these years, Perlin recalled, when had an offer to return to comics full-time:.

Don Perlin went on to become the regular artist for the supernatural-motorcyclist series Ghost Rider from 1977 to 1981, and a handful of other issues through 1983.

Don Perlin contributed stories starring characters including the Inhumans, Spider-Man, and the Sub-Mariner.

McKenzie and Don Perlin received credit for the idea on the letters page at Stern's insistence.

In 1980, Don Perlin began working on Man-Thing with Chris Claremont, beginning with a crossover with Doctor Strange and continuing until the second to last issue of the series in 1981.

Don Perlin joined Jim Shooter's Valiant Comics in 1991, pencilling the series Solar, Man of the Atom and Bloodshot and editing Solar, Man of the Atom, Shadowman, and Magnus Robot Fighter.

Shortly after Valiant's mid-1990s takeover by Acclaim Entertainment, Don Perlin went into semi-retirement.

In 2012, Don Perlin pencilled a new Bloodshot story for the Bloodshoot: Blood of the Machine Hardcover, written by Kevin VanHook and inked by Bob Wiacek, his original collaborators on the series.

Don Perlin won the 1997 National Cartoonists Society Comic Books Award.