User blog:ARTaylor/RIP Len Wein

Famed Len Wein writer and editor has passed away. He died at the age of sixty-nine following an extended hospital stay after surgery. He is survived by his wife Christine Valada and several children.

Wein has worked on many, many high profile comics for both DC and Marvel Comics. He is best known as the creator of Swamp Thing for DC and Wolverine for Marvel. He famously worked on Giant Size X-Men and was the co-creator for Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus and was the editor on the famous and highly influential miniseries Watchmen. During his time at Marvel, he was nicknamed Lively Len.

In addition to being credited as the character creator in numerous series and films, he was a writer on animated series including X-Men, Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Avengers: United They Stand, and The Super Hero Squad Show. He also worked on numerous other animated series including The Transformers, Batman: The Animated Series, Street Fighter: The Animated Series, ReBoot, Beast Wars: Transformers, Godzilla: The Series, and RoboCop: Alpha Commando.

Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. He has been given special thanks in the films Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Doctor Strange, Logan, and Wonder Woman as well as the series Daredevil and Luke Cage.