Dennis 'Denny' O’Neil, the acclaimed comic book writer and editor known for his iconic work on Batman, TheQuestion and GreenLantern and GreenArrow has died
For a veteran with lengthy stints at Marvel and DC, it might be a surprise to learn that O’Neil started in comics “kind of as a joke,” as he put it in the 1980s. He received a job offer from Stan Lee to write for Marvel while working as a journalist, then went on to work for Charlton Comics and DC as he moved more concretely into the industry.
During O’Neil’s first stint at DC, he worked on projects that have subsequently become touchstones for the characters moving forward, including teaming Green Lantern and Green Arrow for a series of stories that saw them traveling the U.S. and dealing with contemporary social issues and taking Batman back to his darker roots after the success of the brighter 1960s Adam West ABC series. Both of these projects were co-created with artist Neal Adams.
RIP Denny O’ Neil—one of visionary architects of DC Comics who helped revive Batman in the 1970’s and remains my favorite Green Lantern writer to date. Through his editing and writing, Denny was one of the earliest writers whose work and focus on social issues pushed comics 1/
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