She’d gone straight, leaving her criminal past behind, and she wanted Bruce Wayne’s help with her investments:īruce was suspicious and had his business manager Lucius Fox, another character created by Wein, investigate her. He was the regular writer on the book, and reintroduced the character via her alter ego, Selina Kyle. Then Len Wein brought her back in Batman #308 in 1979.

Her depictions varied wildly, different costumes were used, and she had no sustained runs. Her popular turn on the Batman television show in the 1960s had ended a decade-long hiatus for the character, but no one at DC was able to figure out what to do with her after that. Throughout the 1970s, Catwoman was adrift at DC Comics. However, most fans are unaware of his important role in revitalizing a different female character in the Bat-mythos, Catwoman. In the late 1980s, as an editor he okayed the shooting of Barbara Gordon, formerly Batgirl, in an attack that left her paralyzed in Batman: The Killing Joke. Wein is also remembered for one dark moment in the Batman universe. He was a fan made good, who used to tour the DC offices as a teen in the 1960s before finally landing a writing job there, and his love for the genre led to decades of great stories. Over the course of his career, Wein wrote or edited nearly every major superhero at both DC and Marvel, leaving his mark on all of them. He then edited Moore again on Watchmen, the most famous superhero graphic novel of all time. Plus he co-created Swamp Thing, edited Alan Moore’s brilliant run on the book. And if that wasn’t enough, he also co-created the bulk of the new X-Men that revitalized the franchise in the 1970s, including Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Storm. “Legendary” is no exaggeration either the man co-created Wolverine, one of the most famous superheroes of all time. Legendary comic book creator Len Wein passed away yesterday at the age of 69.

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