A regular contributor to Marvel\'s letter columns as a teen, Don Mcgregor broke into comics writing short stories for Warren\'s Publishing black-and-white magazines Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.
Buckler was also editor of the short-lived Solson Publications and wrote two books on comic b.
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Buckler\'s DC work includes Lois Lane, The Secret Society of Super-Villains, and World\'s Finest, as well as the groundbreaking Superman vs.
Among his most notable work for Marvel: In the 1970s he helped introduce Deathlok in the pages of Astonishing Tales; penciled several storylines in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man; and enjoyed runs on Fantastic Four, Thor, and other monthly titles, including the first solo series featuring the Black Panther.
Rich Buckler (1949-2017) was a versatile artist who drew hundreds of pages for Marvel, DC, Archie, Warren, and others, during his long career.
Mcgregor has also written the syndicated Zorro newspaper strip, and published the prose fictions Dragonflame & Other Bedtime Nightmares and The Variable Syndrome, among other works.
Craig Russell, the latter following up storylines from Jungle Action in the Marvel Comics Presents anthology and a four-issue miniseries, Black Panther: Panther\'s Prey.
The 1980s would also see Mcgregor return to Killraven and Black Panther; the former in a lushly illustrated graphic novel with P. (with Marshall Rogers and Gene Colan), both published by Eclipse, and a pair of well- received noir detective miniseries, Nathaniel Dusk (also illustrated by Colan) for DC comics.
His later works include the graphic novel and subsequent series Sabre (with artist Paul Gulacy) and Detectives Inc.
In this series, too, Mcgregor pushed back against the presumptions of racism: Killraven featured mainstream comics\' first interracial kiss.
Craig Russell on Killraven in Amazing Adventures a science-fiction romance about an earthbound hero\'s struggles against Martian invaders.
Concurrent with his work on the Panther, Mcgregor collaborated with artist P.
His groundbreaking run brought a new social relevance to the series, and McGregor\'s vision of T\'Challa, his people, and the nation of Wakanda remains influential to this day.
Making the jump to Marvel Comics as a writer-editor in the mid-1970s, he combined a penchant for densely descriptive prose captions and character- riven narrative with the excitement of super hero drama on the first solo series devoted to the adventures of the Black Panther.
A regular contributor to Marvel\'s letter columns as a teen, Don Mcgregor broke into comics writing short stories for Warren\'s Publishing black-and-white magazines Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella
