Steve Engelhart
| Steve Englehart | |
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Englehart photographed in 1982 at Comic-Con.
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| Born | April 22, 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Pseudonym(s) | John Harkness Cliff Garnett |
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Notable works
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The Avengers Captain America Detective Comics Doctor Strange Green Lantern Justice League of America |
| Awards |
Eagle Awards Roll of Honour, 1978 Inkpot Award, 1979 |
| http://www.steveenglehart.com | |
Steve Englehart (born April 22, 1947) is an American writer of comic books and novels. He is best known for his work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s and 1980s. His pseudonyms have included John Harkness and Cliff Garnett.
Steve Englehart majored in psychology at Wesleyan University, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969.
Englehart's first work in comics was as an art assistant to Neal Adams on a 10-page story by writer Denny O'Neil in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #10 (March 1971). After briefly serving as a member of the Crusty Bunkers, Englehart found his true calling as a writer. He began with a co-writing credit, with Gardner Fox, on the six-page, Englehart-drawn "Retribution" in Warren's Eerie #35 (Sept. 1971). Then, as Marvel editor Roy Thomas said in a 2007 interview, Englehart became
...a summer replacement or some such for [writer] Gary Friedrich. When Gary wanted to go away for a while, he got Steve, who was sort of a young aspiring artist when he came up to Neal [Adams]'s studio, and he ended up at Marvel as a proofreader. Then he wanted to write, and I believe he wrote a few pages of a sample script. Anyway, I gave him "The Beast" [in Amazing Adventures] to try out on, and that worked out pretty well.
Englehart said he had first done uncredited co-scripting on a number of stories:
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