Happy Birthday Len Wein

Prolific wrtier and editor Len Wein was born on this day. He is known for being editor in chief of Marvel Comics in the 70's as well as his run as a writer on the Amazing Spider-Man and is co-creator of SwampThing at DC Comics. Swamp Thing won him the Shazam award for best contining character and best story for issue #1. So he is an award winning writer. I once heard a story that he and Marv Wolfman started out together trying to get jobs at DC as artist. They both brought samples of their work, stories that they wrote and drew themselves, to Julie Schwartz. He took a look at both and told them you two aren't artist. You're writers. He hired them on the spot as writers for DC Comics. Happy Birthday Len.