21 Facts About Len Wein

Leonard Norman Wein was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men.

Len Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.

Len Wein was born on June 12,1948, in New York City, and was raised in a Jewish household.

One of two children of Phillip and Rosalyn Len Wein, he lived in The Bronx until age 7, when he moved with his family to Levittown, New York, on Long Island.

Wolfman was active in fanzine culture, and together he and Len Wein produced sample superhero stories to show to the DC editorial staff.

At that point, Len Wein was more interested in becoming an artist than a writer.

Later that year, Len Wein was writing anthological mystery stories for DC's The House of Secrets and Marvel's Tower of Shadows and Chamber of Darkness.

Len Wein additionally began writing for DC's romance comic Secret Hearts and the company's toyline tie-in Hot Wheels; Skywald Publications' horror-comics magazines Nightmare and Psycho and its short-lived Western comic books The Bravados and The Sundance Kid; and Gold Key Comics' Mod Wheels, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, the toyline tie-in Microbots, and the TV-series tie-ins Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.

Len Wein co-created the Human Target with artist Carmine Infantino and wrote the character's appearances as a backup feature in Action Comics, Detective Comics, and The Brave and the Bold.

Len Wein briefly wrote the "Batman" feature in Detective Comics and produced a storyline with artist Jim Aparo and in which Batman was framed for the murder of Talia al Ghul and battled Sterling Silversmith for the first time.

Len Wein succeeded Roy Thomas as editor-in-chief of the color-comics line in 1974, staying a little over a year before handing the reins to Wolfman.

Len Wein co-created Wolverine with Roy Thomas, and artist John Romita Sr.

Len Wein plotted the early "new X-Men" stories with artist Cockrum.

In 1977, following an offer to script the "Batman" feature in Detective Comics, Len Wein left Marvel to work exclusively at DC Comics as a scriptwriter and editor.

Len Wein scripted Batman and collaborated on Green Lantern with artists Dave Gibbons and Mark Farmer.

Len Wein collaborated with writer Kurt Busiek and artist Kelley Jones on the four-issue miniseries Conan: The Book of Thoth for Dark Horse Comics.

Len Wein has scripted the comics series The Victorian for Penny-Farthing Press and has written comic-book stories for Bongo Comics' TV-series tie-ins The Simpsons and Futurama.

Len Wein was interviewed for commentary tracks on comics-related DVDs, including the animated Justice League: The New Frontier film, the live-action Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and X-Men films, the X-Men Origins: Wolverine film, the Watchmen film, the Swamp Thing TV-series sets, the Human Target first season TV series, and the July 2008 History Channel specials Batman Unmasked and Batman Tech.

Len Wein wrote the storyline for the Watchmen video game, The End Is Nigh, which serves as a backstory to both the comic and the film adaptation.

In 2012, Len Wein worked on the Before Watchmen project, writing the mini-series Ozymandias with art by Jae Lee and the serialized feature "Curse of the Crimson Corsair" with art by Watchmen colorist John Higgins.

Len Wein indicated on the show that she would use the money to recover or replace much of the artwork and books the couple lost in the fire.