Steve Englehart was born on this day in 1947. By his mid-twenties,he was reshaping the Marvel Universe. At thirty, he was reinventing Batman. Englehart is easily one of the greatest comic book writers of all time, and probably the definitive writer of the 1970s.
One of the provocative things about Englehart is that he doesn’t win credit for creating that many provocative characters. In fact,hes probably most strongly associated with Mantis, a character he introduced in Avengers and held onto (in an incognito form) even when he moved to Justice League of America and beyond. But while Englehart certainly created some peculiar characters, or what he was really distinguished at was perfecting characters that already existed.
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Source: comicsalliance.com