Len
Wein broke into the comic book business in the late 1960s, often co-writing
with his friend Marv Wolfman. In 1972, Wein and artist Berni Wrightson created
the horror comic Swamp Thing for DC Comics.
In the early 1970s he moved to Marvel Comics. Wein worked at Marvel as a writer/editor. He had lengthy and memorable runs on Amazing Spider-Man, Hulk, Thor and Fantastic Four.
However, he is probably best-known for co-creating, in 1975, the New X-Men
team that would eventually become the biggest-selling comic title. Wein had
a strong hand in the creation of such characters as Nightcrawler, Storm,
Colossus and Wolverine (who had made his debut in Wein's run
on Hulk).
In the
late 1970s Wein moved back to DC, principally as an editor, where he oversaw
such successes as The New Teen Titans and Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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Marvel Comics Group
During the 1980s ,Wein commisssioned an update of the Charlton Comics library of characters from writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons. This eventually developed into the acclaimed Watchmen series, which Wein edited.
In recent years, Wein has devoted more of his time writing for animation and TV, including an intriguing work called Gene Pool (with Wolfman).
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