Len Wein, the comic book writer and artist best known for his pivotal work on Marvel’s X-Men books and devising DC Comics’ pioneering eco-hero Swamp Thing, has died aged 69. He had suffered ill-health for some time, undergoing major heart surgery in 2015.
Wein was a comics super-fan long before he was a comics creator.
In a 2003 Comics Bulletin interview, he said that he was ‘a very sickly kid.’
“While I was in the hospital at age seven, my dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz.
