Mike W. Barr

Mike W. Barr, is an American writer of comic book, and mystery, and science fiction novels. Mike W. Barr was born on May 30, 1952. His introduction into comics writing came in DC Comics' Detective Comics #444, for which he wrote an 8-page back-up mystery feature starring the Elongated Man in late 1974/early 1975. His credits then skip ahead four years, when he wrote a further couple of back-up features for Detective Comics and House of Mystery as well as an issue of Captain America (#241) for Marvel in January 1980. By mid-1980 he was writing regularly for both DC and Marvel, and in 1981 penned stories for Marvel Team-Up and Mystery in Space as well as various Batman and Green Lantern titles, among others. Legion of Super-Heroes #277 (July 1981) saw him take on editorial duties at DC, while writing issues of Marvel's Star Trek comic, for whom he created the native American character Ensign Bearclaw and a pacifist Klingon named Konom. In December 1982, he debuted the first issue...