Biography

Career

By the mid-1980s, Mantlo was enrolled in law school. While continuing to write for Marvel, his workload began to decrease. He wrote briefly for DC Comics in 1988, scripting the Invasion! miniseries. By this time he had passed the bar exam and was engaged in full-time work as a public defender in New York City.

In 1992, Mantlo was struck by a car while rollerblading. He suffered severe head trauma and spent over a year in a coma. He has since been institutionalized and is not expected to fully recover. In 2007, David Yurkovich released a benefit book called Mantlo: A Life in Comics, with proceeds going to pay for Mantlo's care.

Selected bibliography

• Alpha Flight
• The Champions
• Cloak and Dagger
• Daredevil
• Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
• The Defenders
• Howard the Duck (later issues of the series and the black-and-white magazine)
• The Incredible Hulk (starting with #245 - #313)
• Invasion!
• Iron Man (#95 - #115)
• Jack of Hearts
• Marvel Preview (#4, #7, #10 #24)
• Marvel Team-Up
• Micronauts
• Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man
• Rawhide Kid
• Rocket Raccoon's 4 issue Limited Series
• Rom (#1 - #75 & Annual #1 - #4, December 1979 - February 1986)
• Sectaurs
• Thor
• The Transformers
• The Vision and the Scarlet Witch mini series.
• Werewolf by Night
• ''X-Men

Footnotes

References

• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
• The Grand Comic-Book Database

External links

• The Bill Mantlo Benefit Book
• Howling Curmudgeons (November 10, 2004): "A Tribute to Bill Mantlo", by Matt Rossi
• The Hulk Library: "Tribute to Bill Mantlo", by Miguel Colomo