Few   writers/editors influenced Marvel more than Mark   Gruenwald (1953-1996). Famed for pioneering work   on Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and his magnum opus Squadron   Supreme, he also wrote a hundred-plus-issue run of   Captain America;   multiple Marvel Two-in-One sagas; and several   miniseries, including Contest of Champions, the first of Marvel’s multi-hero sagas. He explored the   Marvel Universe’s ancient history in a series of What   If? backup stories he also penciled.
A   professional comic book artist since the late 1980s, Kieron   Dwyer also works in film, television, books and   advertising. He co-created the Swing Town animated series, taught at the Academy of Art College,   produced storyboards for film and TV projects such as Batman Beyond and had his drawings   prominently featured in the motion picture Sky   High. Dwyer’s many Marvel credits include a long   run penciling Captain America, shorter stints on Avengers and Thing   and work on other titles such as Avengers   Spotlight, Classic X-Men, Deadpool/GLI: Summer Fun Spectacular, Solo Avengers and X-Factor. In addition to DC projects such as Action   Comics and Batman, Dwyer has co-created indie comics Night   Mary, Remains, Last of the Independents and Sea of Red.
His   place in Marvel history assured when he helped introduce Deathlok in the   pages of Astonishing Tales, Rich Buckler also penciled several   storylines in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man — along with runs on Jungle Action’s Black Panther, Fantastic Four, Thor   and other monthly titles, as well as Roy Thomas’s miniseries Saga of the Sub-Mariner and Saga of the Original Human Torch.   Buckler’s 1970s DC work includes Lois Lane, Secret Society of Super-Villains and World’s Finest, as well as the groundbreaking Superman   vs. Shazam. During the 1980s, he and Thomas   collaborated on All-Star Squadron. He worked in the barbarian and horror genres for both Marvel   and DC, illustrated Archie’s Mighty Crusaders, and contributed to black-and-white magazines for both Marvel   and Warren Publishing. He was editor of the short-lived Solson Publications   and wrote two books on comic-book art.
Al   Milgrom, A.K.A. “Editori-Al,” is renowned as writer,   editor, penciler and inker — and held most of those positions on Spectacular Spider-Man. He also   contributed to SSM’s   sibling Amazing Spider-Man. He penciled West Coast Avengers for four years and inked X-Factor for eight. His artwork has also appeared in Avengers, Captain   America, Thor and most X-titles, including the classic Kitty Pryde and Wolverine. As   editor, he oversaw Marvel’s Epic imprint and the sixty-issue run of Marvel Fanfare, where his satirical   self-portraits made his face as recognizable as any super hero’s mask. At DC,   he co-created Firestorm the Nuclear Man with Gerry Conway.