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'''Bill Mantlo''' (born November 9, 1951) is an American comic-book writer, best-known for his work on two licensed toy properties ''Micronauts'' and the long-running ''Rom: Space Knight''. Mantlo plotted out the stories of the [[The Transformers (comic issue)|first]] and [[Power Play!|second issues]] of the [[Generation 1 (Marvel comic)|Marvel G1 comic]]. | '''Bill Mantlo''' (born November 9, 1951) is an American comic-book writer, best-known for his work on two licensed toy properties ''Micronauts'' and the long-running ''Rom: Space Knight''. Mantlo plotted out the stories of the [[The Transformers (comic issue)|first]] and [[Power Play!|second issues]] of the [[Generation 1 (Marvel comic)|Marvel G1 comic]]. | ||
Having written for nearly every on-going Marvel title in the 1970's, by the mid-1980's Mantlo had entered law school and ceased working in the comics field to become a public defender. Struck by a car while rollerblading in 1992, Mantlo suffered severe head trauma and spent over a year in a coma. He has since been institutionalized and is not expected to fully recover. | Having written for nearly every on-going Marvel title in the 1970's, by the mid-1980's Mantlo had entered law school and ceased working in the comics field to become a public defender. Struck by a car while rollerblading in 1992, Mantlo suffered severe head trauma and spent over a year in a coma. He has since been institutionalized and is not expected to fully recover. | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mantlo Bill Mantlo's profile on Wikipedia.] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mantlo Bill Mantlo's profile on Wikipedia.] | ||
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Bill Mantlo (born November 9, 1951) is an American comic-book writer, best-known for his work on two licensed toy properties Micronauts and the long-running Rom: Space Knight. Mantlo plotted out the stories of the first and second issues of the Marvel G1 comic.
Having written for nearly every on-going Marvel title in the 1970's, by the mid-1980's Mantlo had entered law school and ceased working in the comics field to become a public defender. Struck by a car while rollerblading in 1992, Mantlo suffered severe head trauma and spent over a year in a coma. He has since been institutionalized and is not expected to fully recover.
