Personal Info

  • Known For

    Writing

  • Known Credits

    16

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    June 12, 1948 ( 69 years old )

  • Place of Birth

    New York City, New York, USA

  • Also Known As

    Len Wei

    Leonard Norman Wein

Len Wein

Leonard Norman Wein (/wiːn/; June 12, 1948 – September 10, 2017) was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus). Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen. Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.