David Wohl is an American comic book writer and editor. He is best known as an editor at

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and

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and, at the latter, writing '' The Darkness'' and ''

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''.

Career

David Wohl began his creative career as a

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intern at

. He later became an assistant editor on titles ranging from ''

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'' to ''

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'', and later still was promoted to managing editor. In 1993, Wohl left Marvel to become editor-in-chief and executive vice president of

, eventually becoming president in 1999. While at Top Cow, he co-created and wrote such comic book franchises as '' The Darkness'', ''

'', and '' Aphrodite IX''. He worked as a producer on the ''

'' television series that aired on

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for two seasons. Several episodes of the series were based on Wohl's original story ideas. In 2003, Wohl joined

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's Tiger Hill Entertainment as creative director, working with Clive Barker on '' Demonik'' for Majesco Entertainment and with Woo on '' Stranglehold'' for

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. In 2006, Wohl became vice president of development for the fledgling animation company Blockade. As of the late 2000s, the company has four shows in production, led by a television series based on

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's '' Heavenly Sword'' videogame franchise. Wohl has also worked on comics for

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's ''

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'' and New Regency's ''Se7en'' franchise. After a two-year stint as editor-in-chief of Radical Comics, Wohl resumed his role at Blockade, and is currently creating and writing several new projects with Aspen Comics and served as producer on the film adaptation of ''

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'', released in April, 2016, as well as ''

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'' (currently in development). Wohl has also recently taken a position as consultant at DC Entertainment, editing several comic lines. Wohl's most recent series for Aspen are " Executive Assistant: Iris" (currently in Active Development with "

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" production company Mad Chance) and " Santeria: The Goddess Kiss" (released in 2016).

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* Witchblade Living people American comics writers Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Jewish American comics writers Marvel Comics people {{US-comics-writer-stub