![]() ![]() ![]() While I was in the hospital at age seven, my dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. In a 2003 interview, Len Wein recalled having been "a very sickly kid. Wein's younger brother, Michael, died in 2007. There he graduated from Division Avenue High School in 1966, and went on to an art degree from nearby Farmingdale State College. ![]() One of two children of Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein, he lived in The Bronx until age 7, when he moved with his family to Levittown, New York, on Long Island. Wein was born on June 12, 1948, in New York City, and was raised in a Jewish household. Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen. Leonard Norman Wein ( / w iː n/ J– 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). Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, 2008 ![]()
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