I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

The following year Wein scripted the rebooted Wonder Woman series over penciller George Pérez's plots. Won First Place Award from First Comics News. He has scripted the comics series The Victorian for Penny-Farthing Press and has written comic-book stories for Bongo Comics' TV-series tie-ins The Simpsons and Futurama.

Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008. Len Wein (pron. : /ˈwiːn/; born June 12 1948 New York City New York) is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler Storm and Colossus).