23 Facts About Steve Englehart

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Steve Englehart is an American writer of comic books and novels.

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Steve Englehart is best known for his work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Steve Englehart's pseudonyms have included John Harkness and Cliff Garnett.

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Steve Englehart majored in psychology at Wesleyan University, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969.

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Steve Englehart had served in the United States Army, but was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.

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When Gary wanted to go away for a while, he got Steve Englehart, who was sort of a young aspiring artist when he came up to Neal [Adams]'s studio, and he ended up at Marvel as a proofreader.

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Steve Englehart said he had first done uncredited co-scripting on a number of stories:.

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Steve Englehart had a run on Doctor Strange, in which Strange's mentor, the Ancient One, died, and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme.

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Steve Englehart reconciled the existence of Captain America and sidekick Bucky in Marvel's 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics, an anomaly that had been ignored since Captain America's 1964 reintroduction to Marvel presented him as having been in suspended animation since 1945.

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Steve Englehart's newly retconned history stated that the 1950s Captain America and Bucky had been different characters from the ones who had debuted in the 1940s.

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In March 1976, Steve Englehart had a falling-out with Marvel and left the company.

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Steve Englehart temporarily left comics at this juncture, moving to Europe before his first issue of Detective was published.

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Steve Englehart returned to mainstream Marvel comics later that decade with stints on West Coast Avengers, the second Vision and the Scarlet Witch limited series, Silver Surfer, and Fantastic Four.

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Steve Englehart was going to be the regular writer of Daredevil in 1986 but left after only one issue due to an editorial conflict.

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Simultaneously, Steve Englehart wrote DC Comics' Green Lantern, overseeing the title's name change to Green Lantern Corps.

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Steve Englehart wrote issues of other Malibu comic series like Freex, Hardcase and Prototype.

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Steve Englehart has admitted to writing the novel Hellstorm in the TALON Force series under the house pseudonym Cliff Garnett.

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For producer Michael Uslan, Steve Englehart wrote early treatments and served as script doctor for the Batman film that was based on his comics series; it was later scripted by Sam Hamm and directed by Tim Burton.

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Steve Englehart wrote three episodes of the television series Night Man, an adaptation of the comic series of the same name that he had created for Malibu Comics.

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Several of Steve Englehart's characters appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Steve Englehart returned in its 2017 sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

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In 2019, Steve Englehart appeared in the music video for "Welcome To My World" by ZorDonofDoom.

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In 2021, Steve Englehart created titles and themes based on Shang-Chi for the album Prism Club from InRage Entertainment.