DAVID MICHELINIE

'David Michelinie' (born May 6 1948) is an American comic book writer.
Some of his earliest work is for DC Comics's ''House of Secrets'' and a run on ''Swamp Thing'' (Vol. 1, #14-18, 21 and 22), following Len Wein and preceding Gerry Conway, illustrated by Nestor Redondo.
His most famous works include two noted runs on the ''Iron Man'' series, with co-writer (and inker) Bob Layton, in the late 1970s and early 1980s which introduced the character's serious problem with alcoholism, his specialized power armor variants and his new enmities with Justin Hammer and Victor Von Doom. His most noted cliffhanger was when Tony Stark was thrown out of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s helicarrier and had to don his armor completely to use its flight function before he hit the ground.
In the late 1980s, he also wrote a popular run on ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' series which featured the art of Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen and introduced the popular supervillain Venom. Michelinie had planned to introduce Venom earlier and did include a 'teaser' scene in ''Web of Spider-Man'' #18, where Peter Parker is pushed into the path of an oncoming train. Spider-Man's 'spider sense' should have warned him, but the alien costume that is part of Venom nullified this power of Spider-Man's. This was the first of what was to be several clues leading to the reveal of Venom. Michelinie stopped writing ''Web of Spider-Man'' shortly after and was not able to continue the introduction of Venom until his time of writing on ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', which started with issue #290.
He also has the record of having the second longest run on ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' comic (behind only Stan Lee).
Michelinie returned to creating comics by teaming-up with Bob Layton and Dick Giordano to form Future Comics. The company closed down after only two and a half years in business in 2004.

Contents

Selected bibliography

Marvel Comics

References

Selected bibliography

Marvel Comics

★ ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #205, 290-292, 296-352, 359-388 (Volume One)

★ ''Amazing Spider-Man Annual'' #21-26, 28, 1995

★ ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #173-175

★ ''Spider-Man'' #35

★ '' #1-6

★ ''Web of Spider-Man'' #8-9, 14-19, 23-24, 70

★ ''Iron Man'' #116 to 153 (select)

★ ''Iron Man'' #215 to 232 (more select)

References

★ Michelinie's Spider-Man Credits