William Timothy Mantlo (born November 9, 1951) is an American

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writer, primarily at

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. He is best known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: ''

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'' and ''

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'', as well as co-creating the characters

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and

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. 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.

Early life

Bill Mantlo was born in

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, 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,"Micromails: Meet the Micro-Makers: Bill Mantlo," ''Micronauts'' #7 (Marvel Comics, July 1979). he focused on painting and photography. Following his graduation, Mantlo held various civil service positions and worked as a portrait photographer.

Career

Comics

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

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. Mantlo's first credits were as a colorist, on several comics

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d from October 1974 to April 1975. Soon afterword, Mantlo wrote a fill-in script for a

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story in ''

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'', which led to a permanent writing position on that title. While scripting ''Deadly Hands'', Mantlo and artist

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created

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, comics' first superhero of

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descent. Around this time, Marvel's then editor-in-chief

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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." 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

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properties

and

, also known as ''Rom: Spaceknight''. Mantlo recalled how one Christmas, he examined some

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from

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'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, Mantlo convinced then-editor-in-chief

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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. ''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 ''

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'' 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

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

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, and Steven Grant co-wrote ''

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'' #25 (1980) which featured a new story starring Spider-Man vs. the Hulk set at the

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. While writing ''The

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'' he collaborated with artist Bob Hall, who said in 2013, "Bill was a peach — very helpful to me as I got started n 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." Mantlo began writing ''

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'' 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

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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 ditor

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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." Mantlo and artist

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co-created the superhero pair

in ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' #64 (March 1982). Mantlo, Gruenwald, and Grant reunited to co-write ''

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'', the first

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published by Marvel Comics. Other work by Mantlo includes runs as the regular writer on '' Iron Man'' and ''

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''.

Public defender

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. He wrote briefly for

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in 1988, scripting the '' Invasion!'' miniseries. By this time he had passed the

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, and in 1987 began working as a

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public defender in

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Personal life

Mantlo was married to Karen Mantlo (née Pocock), for some years a

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in the comics industry. They have a son, Adam, and a daughter, Corinna (born 1980). On July 17, 1992, Mantlo was struck by a car while

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. The driver of the car fled the scene and was never identified. Mantlo suffered severe head trauma. According to his biographer, cartoonist David Yurkovich, in 2006, "For a while Bill was comatose. Although no longer in a coma, the brain damage he suffered in the accident is irreparable. His activities of daily living are severely curtailed and he resides in a healthcare facility where he receives full-time care."

Awards

''Micronauts'' won the 1979 Eagle Award for Favourite New Comic Title. In 2014, Mantlo received the Bill Finger Award.

Selected bibliography

Marvel Comics

* ''

'' #29–66, ''Annual'' #1–2 (1985–1989) * ''

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'' (Killraven) #33, 38 (1975–1976) * ''Amazing High Adventure'' #4-5 (1986) * ''

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'' #181, 222, 237, ''Annual'' #10–11, 17 (1976–1983) * ''

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'' #32–35 (1975–1976) * '' The Avengers'' #174, 188, 206, 210, ''Annual'' #9, 12 (1978–1983) * '' Battlestar Galactica'' #8-9 (1979) * '' Captain America'' #256, 291 (1981-1984) * ''

'' #8–17 (1976–1978) * ''

'' (1983–1984 mini-series) #1–4, (1985–1987 ongoing series) #1–11 * '' Daredevil'' #140 (1976) * ''

'' #7–14, 16–27, 29–32 (1974–1977) * ''

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'' #30 (1975) * '' Epic Illustrated'' #5 (1981) * '' Fantastic Four'' #172, 182–183, 193–194, 216–218, ''Annual'' #13 (1976–1980) * ''

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'' #29-31 (1975) * ''

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'' #18 (1975) * ''

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'' #16 (1976) * '' Heroes for Hope: Starring the X-Men'' #1 (1985) * ''

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'' (comic book series) #30–31 (black-and-white magazine) #1–9 (1979–1981) * '' Human Fly'' #1-19 (1977-1979) * ''

'' #245–313, ''Annual'' #10–13 (1980–1985) * ''The Incredible Hulk Versus Quasimodo'' #1 (1983) * '' Iron Man'' #78, 86–87, 95–115, Annual #4 (1975–1978) * ''

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'' #1–4 (1984 mini-series) * '' John Carter, Warlord of Mars Annual'' #2 (1978) * ''

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'' #1-7 (1978) * ''Marvel Chillers'':

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#1-2 (1975) * '' Marvel Classics Comics'' #15 (adaptation of ''

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''), 18 (adaptation of ''The

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'') * ''

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'' #7, 16, 19, 25, 27-28, 43, 47, 56-58 (1983-1991) * ''

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'' #14 (1985) * ''Marvel Graphic Novel: Cloak and Dagger and Power Pack: Shelter from the Storm'' #1 (1990) * ''Marvel Graphic Novel: Cloak and Dagger: Predator and Prey'' #1 (1988) * ''

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'' #26, 28, 31, 44 (1975-1978) * ''

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'' #4, 7, 10, 22, 24 (1976–1980) * ''

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'' #27 (1976) * ''Marvel Spotlight'' vol. 2 #9-11 (1980-1981) * ''

'' #1-3 (1982) * '' Marvel Super-Heroes'' vol. 2 #10, 15 (1992-1993) * ''

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'' #25, 31, 33 (1983-1984) * ''

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'' #38–51, 53–56, 72, 134–135, 140, ''Annual'' #1, 6 (1975–1984) * '' Marvel Two-in-One'' #11–12, 14–19, 21–24, 47–48, 99 (1975–1983) * ''

'' #1–58, ''Annual'' #1–2 (1979–1984) * '' Power Man'' #27, 29 (1975-1976) * ''

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'' #1 (1984) * ''

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'' #1–4 (1985 mini-series) * ''

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'' #5-7 (1985) * ''

'' #1–4 (1985 mini-series) * ''

'' #1–75, ''Annual'' #1–4 (1979–1986) * '' Savage Sword of Conan'' #110 (1985) * ''

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'' #1–8 (1985–1986) * '' Skull the Slayer'' #5-8 (1976) * '' Son of Satan'' #8 (1977) * ''

'' #6, 9–10, 12–15, 17–34, 36–40, 42, 53, 61–89, 104, 120, ''Annual'' #1, 4 (1977–1986) * ''

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'' vol. 2 #1-6Issue #7 credits Mantlo as the writer of the "Cloak & Dagger" story but the issue was in fact wholly written by "Dr. Strange" writer Peter B. Gillis. The letters pages in later issues corrected this error. (1987) * ''

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'' #4, 9-14 (1976-1977) * '' Swords of the Swashbucklers'' #1–12 (1985–1987) * ''

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'' #22-29, ''Annual'' #2-3 (1978-1979) * '' Team America'' #3-9 (1982-1983) * ''

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'' #240–241, 309 (1975–1981) * ''

Transformers ''Transformers'' is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Tomy, Takara Tomy. It primarily follows the Autobots and the Decepticons, two alien robot factions at war that can transform into other forms ...

'' #1–2 (1985) * ''

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'' #1–4 (1982–1983 mini-series) * ''

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'' #11 * '' What If...?'' #21, 31, 36 (1980-1982) * ''

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'' #96, 106 (1975–1977) * ''X-Men and the Micronauts'' #1–4 (1984 mini-series)

Other publishers

* ''

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'' #109 (

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) (1979) * '' Invasion!'' #1–3 (

) (1989)

Notes

References

External links

*
ComicBookRealm.com: Bill Mantlo
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at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators

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The Hulk Library: Tribute to Bill Mantlo
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Summit Business Media: ''National Underwriter Life & Health'': Tragic Tale
(archive
here

Summit Business Media: ''National Underwriter Life & Health'': Make Mine Mantlo
(editorial based on "Tragic Tale")
Tragic Tale: Bill's Last Words
(the last entries from Mantlo's journal, 1995) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mantlo, Bill 1951 births American comics writers Bill Finger Award winners Cooper Union alumni High School of Art and Design alumni Living people Marvel Comics writers New York (state) lawyers People with traumatic brain injuries Public defenders Writers from Brooklyn