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Larry Gil
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Such a range of great storytelling. Very shocking and sad news.RIP
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James Best
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Co-created Wolverine and edited both Swamp Thing and Watchmen.
The angels have a new storyteller in their midst. I hope they are grateful.
Rest In Peace.
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Michael Casselman
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His work shaped my formative years as a comic reader. I can't imagine never having read and loved his Justice League, Batman or other DC work that I read either off-the-rack, in my earliest found back-issues or in a digest comic. One of the first names I came to recognize as I scanned story credits.
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Greg Nyman
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So sad to hear about Len's passing. I started paying attention to the credit boxes around the mid-70s, and I noticed that so many of the comics I enjoyed over the next several years were written by Len. RIP.
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John Byrne
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Co-created Wolverine and edited both Swamp Thing and Watchmen.••• He co-created Swamp Thing, with Bernie Wrightson, and the new X-Men with Dave Cockrum.
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Marc Baptiste
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So sorry to hear of this news. My deepest condolences to Len Wein's family and friends. Len Wein was a big favorite of mine (although I didn't know it for many years!!).
Marc
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Brian O'Neill
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Huge fan of his work, particularly since one of his stories ('Dark Messenger of Mercy, BATMAN # 307) was among the first comics I remember reading, at age 4. Shortly after leaving that title in 1980, he began editing books for DC, returning to JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, for a strong run highlighted by George Perez's too-short stint as artist, following Dick Dillin's death.Highlights of that era included the three classic early-80s JLA-JSA team-ups(and, yeah, the 1983 stinker);the epic two-parter featuring Starro, the team-up with Jonah Hex and other western heroes, and, of course, the 'jam' in # 200. Wein also took time to write the series' first Annual, featuring Dr. Destiny, with guest-shots by John 'GL' Stewart and the 70s version of Sandman. The early 80s was 'my' ear for the Justice League, and Wein was as much a part of that as editor as he'd been as writer a decade earlier.
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Trevor Smith
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Like a lot of you, Len was all over my personal "golden
years" of comic reading, so this is a really tough one.
Condolences to his family and friends.
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Eric Ladd
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Very nice story about Len: News from ME.
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Michael Penn
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I was glad that NPR recognized Mr. Wein:
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Steve Coates
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So, I was out to a comic show on the weekend and purchased some comics from the $2 bins, almost all from the early 1970s. One was Korak, son of Tarzan, volume 8, issue no. 46, from May-June 1972 and was the first DC issue. I am sure I owned it new back in '72 and certainly recognized it when I saw the Joe Kubert cover and the interiors were stories I had read and seen before. The Korak story was drawn by Frank Thorne, the Carson of Venus story was by Mike Kaluta and the final story of Pellucidar was drawn by Alan Weiss. All 3 stories were written by Len Wein.
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Brian Miller
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I was glad that NPR recognized Mr. Wein:
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Quite pleased to hear this yesterday on the drive home.
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