10 Facts About Mark Gruenwald

Mark Eugene Gruenwald was an American comic book writer, editor, and occasional penciler known for his long association with Marvel Comics.

Mark Gruenwald got his start in comics fandom, publishing his own fanzine, Omniverse, which explored the concept of continuity.

Mark Gruenwald made a deliberate effort to create villains who would be specific to Captain America, as opposed to generic foes who could as easily have been introduced in another comic.

At one point Mark Gruenwald owned a replica of Captain America's shield – the same shield now owned by Stephen Colbert.

Mark Gruenwald's 60-issue run on Quasar realized Gruenwald's ambition to write his own kind of superhero.

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Mark Gruenwald was famous for a perfect recollection of even the most trivial details.

Mark Gruenwald was a recurring character with Tom DeFalco in the single-panel comic The Bull's Eye that ran in Marvel comics in the late 1980s–early 1990s, created by Rick Parker and Barry Dutter.

In 1996, Mark Gruenwald succumbed to a heart attack, the result of an unsuspected congenital heart defect.

Mark Gruenwald was a well-known practical joker and, due to his young age, many of his friends and co-workers initially believed the reports of his death to be just another joke.

In 2006, Mark Gruenwald was officially named the "Patron Saint of Marveldom" in the new "Bullpen Bulletins" pages.