Steve Englehart
Steve Englehart (born April 22, 1947 in Indianapolis ) (pseudonyms: John Harkness, Cliff Garnett) is an American comic author .
Life
Englehart started working in the comic industry in the early 1970s. He delivered his first published work as a drawing assistant to the artist Neal Adams for a black and white story published in March 1971 in the comic book Vampirella # 10 by Warren Publishing's. However, Englehart gave up drawing a short time later in order to seek a career as an author instead.
On the mediation of Roy Thomas , Englehart received writing orders for various series of the Marvel Comics publishing house from 1972 . His most important work during this time was for the series The Avengers , which he wrote between 1972 and 1976. There were also stories for the series Captain America and Doctor Strange . His artistic partners in the last two projects mentioned were the illustrators Sal Buscema and Frank Robbins or Gene Colan .
In 1976, after an argument with Marvel editor Gerry Conway , Englehart moved to DC Comics , Marvel's fiercest competitor, for whom he worked on the Justice League of America and Detective Comics series in the later 1970s . He was supported by the cartoonists Dick Dillin (Justice League) and Walt Simonson or Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin . In particular, Englehart's eight-part run of Detective Comics is still regarded by many critics as one of the highlights of the series and has been reprinted again and again, for example as a mini-series under the title "the Shadow of Batman" and as an anthology under the title "Strange Apparitions". Englehart's Batman story The Laughing Fish was adapted in 1992 by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini in an episode of their animated series Batman: The Animated Series .
After a brief relocation to Europe, during which he wrote the novel The Point Man , published in 1981 by Dell Publishings, Englehart returned to Marvel Comics as a writer. His work in the 1980s included stories for the Marvel series West Coast Avengers , Fantastic Four and the miniseries Vision and the Scarlet Witch . Meanwhile, he wrote the miniseries Millennium (1988) and some Green Lantern stories for DC .
In 2005 the miniseries Batman: Dark Detective followed , for which Englehart teamed up again with Austin and Rogers.
Other works by Englehart are the script Majorca and the novel Hellstorm .
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| SURNAME | Englehart, Steve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harkness, John; Garnett, Cliff |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic book writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Indianapolis |