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Bill Mantlo (William Timothy Mantlo) was born on 9 November, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., is an American comic book writer. Discover Bill Mantlo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As William Timothy Mantlo
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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 9 November 1951
Birthday 9 November
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1951

William Timothy Mantlo (born November 9, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer, primarily at Marvel Comics.

He is best known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: Micronauts and Rom, as well as co-creating the characters Rocket Raccoon and Cloak and Dagger.

1970

By the mid to late 1970s he had written issues of nearly every Marvel title.

Later, he became a regular writer at Marvel, notably for the licensed properties Micronauts and Rom, also known as Rom: Spaceknight.

Mantlo recalled how one Christmas, he examined some action figures from Mego Corporation's Micronauts line, given to his son Adam.

He said he began to envision the characters "as small, microscopic even, inhabiting an other-verse apart from, but conjunctive with ours," and specified that,

"Space Glider seemed to suggest a Reed Richards nobility, an aspect of command, of dignity. Acroyear, faceless, his armor gleaming, a fantastic sword clenched in his coldly metallic hand, seemed to hearken back to a warrior Mr. Spock. For some reason Galactic Warrior seemed insect-like — I can almost hear clicks and whistles and strange scraping interjected into his speech. But Time Traveler — there was a mystery there, glimmerings of cosmic vastness, intimations of knowledge and space and time all having been broken down and reassembled to produce something entirely new, unexplainable, different."

Mantlo convinced then-editor-in-chief Jim Shooter to obtain the comics license for these toys; Shooter then hired Mantlo to script their series.

Mantlo and artist Michael Golden created the Micronauts' backstory of history, mythology, personalities, and an alphabet.

1974

A connection with a college friend in 1974 led Mantlo to a job as an assistant to Marvel Comics production manager John Verpoorten.

Mantlo's first credits were as a colorist, on several comics cover-dated from October 1974 to April 1975.

Soon afterward, Mantlo wrote a fill-in script for a Sons of the Tiger story in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, which led to a permanent writing position on that title.

While scripting Deadly Hands, Mantlo and artist George Pérez created White Tiger, comics' first superhero of Hispanic descent.

Around this time, Marvel's then editor-in-chief Marv Wolfman instituted a policy to avoid the many missed deadlines plaguing the company.

The policy was to have fill-in stories at the ready, should a title be in danger of missing its deadline.

Mantlo quickly became the "fill-in king", creating stories under very tight deadlines, many of which did find their way into print.

Wolfman explained that Mantlo "was both good and fast and at that point didn't have a lot of regular assignments."

1980

Mantlo concluded his first run on the series with a crossover with the Fantastic Four #218 (May 1980).

Mantlo, Mark Gruenwald, and Steven Grant co-wrote Marvel Treasury Edition #25 (1980) which featured a new story starring Spider-Man vs. the Hulk set at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Mantlo began writing The Incredible Hulk with issue #245 (March 1980).

His five-year run on the series was noted for his depiction of the Hulk as highly emotional and humanized, rather than bestial and savage.

Among the adversaries he created for the series were the U-Foes and the Soviet Super-Soldiers.

Summarizing his early years with the Hulk, Mantlo remarked, "I did retreads of old Hulk stories to try and find a new direction, and just kept doing more and more repetition of what had already happened. Then [editor] Al Milgrom said, ‘Well, don’t accept this. If you want to make changes, make them. Take some risks.’ That’s when we decided to give Hulk Bruce Banner’s intelligence. From that point on I felt as if I had finally had a direction and control over the character. So I guess I took a year and half or maybe two years to get to the point."

By the mid-1980s, he was enrolled in law school.

Though he continued writing for Marvel, his workload began to decrease due to disputes with management.

1982

Micronauts, along with Moon Knight and Ka-Zar the Savage, became one of Marvel's first ongoing series to be distributed exclusively to comic book stores beginning with issue #38 (Feb. 1982).

Mantlo's first run on The Spectacular Spider-Man featured frequent appearances by the White Tiger.

He used the series to wrap up unresolved plot elements from The Champions series and wrote a multiple-issue storyline that included the first work by artist Frank Miller on the Daredevil character.

Mantlo and artist Ed Hannigan co-created the superhero pair Cloak and Dagger in The Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (March 1982).

Mantlo, Gruenwald, and Grant reunited to co-write Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first limited series published by Marvel Comics.

Other work by Mantlo includes runs as the regular writer on Iron Man and Alpha Flight.

1987

By this time he had passed the bar exam, and in 1987 began working as a Legal Aid Society public defender in The Bronx.

Mantlo was married to Karen Mantlo (née Pocock), for some years a letterer in the comics industry.

1988

He wrote briefly for DC Comics in 1988, scripting the Invasion! miniseries.

1992

An attorney who worked as a public defender, Mantlo was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in 1992 and has been in institutional care ever since.

Bill Mantlo was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the oldest of three sons of William W. and Nancy Mantlo.

Growing up as a comics fan, Mantlo attended Manhattan's High School of Art & Design.

In college at the Cooper Union School of Art, he focused on painting and photography.

Following his graduation, Mantlo held various civil service positions and worked as a portrait photographer.

2013

While writing The Champions he collaborated with artist Bob Hall, who said in 2013, "Bill was a peach — very helpful to me as I got started [in the comics profession] ... I think we were both as enthusiastic as we could get about this particular comic, but more because we were working at Marvel than because of the book itself."