Comic Book Editor. He got his start in comics fandom, publishing his own fanzine, then he wrote for The Amazing World of DC Comics. In 1978 he was hired by Marvel Comics as an assistant editor. He was promoted to full editorship in 1982, and put in charge of The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider Woman, and What If. In 1982, he and several others co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first limited series published by Marvel Comics. He is well known for creating the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and for ten years he was the writer of Captain America. His wrote Quasar for five years, and the 12-issue miniseries Squadron Supreme. In September 1987, he became Marvel's executive editor. He had a reputation of being able to remember vast amounts of small detail about the characters and their histories; as an homage to this, Walt Simonson created the Time Variance Authority in Thor comics, a cosmic bureaucracy that regulates the Marvel Multiverse, with the TVA's staff all be clones of him. He was well known as a prankster, and many of his friends and co-workers thought the reports of his death to be just another joke. He arranged to be cremated, and to have his ashes mixed with the ink used to print the trade paperback of Squadron Supreme.
Comic Book Editor. He got his start in comics fandom, publishing his own fanzine, then he wrote for The Amazing World of DC Comics. In 1978 he was hired by Marvel Comics as an assistant editor. He was promoted to full editorship in 1982, and put in charge of The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider Woman, and What If. In 1982, he and several others co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first limited series published by Marvel Comics. He is well known for creating the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and for ten years he was the writer of Captain America. His wrote Quasar for five years, and the 12-issue miniseries Squadron Supreme. In September 1987, he became Marvel's executive editor. He had a reputation of being able to remember vast amounts of small detail about the characters and their histories; as an homage to this, Walt Simonson created the Time Variance Authority in Thor comics, a cosmic bureaucracy that regulates the Marvel Multiverse, with the TVA's staff all be clones of him. He was well known as a prankster, and many of his friends and co-workers thought the reports of his death to be just another joke. He arranged to be cremated, and to have his ashes mixed with the ink used to print the trade paperback of Squadron Supreme.
Bio by: Pete Mohney
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