COMIC ARTIST

Len Wein

1948 - 2017

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Leonard Norman Wein (; June 12, 1948 – September 10, 2017) was 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Len Wein has received more than 706,000 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Len Wein is the 164th most popular comic artist (down from 158th in 2019), the 10,590th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,278th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 710k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Len Wein ranks 164 out of 226. Before him are Seishi Kishimoto, Eduardo Risso, Yuu Watase, Makoto Yukimura, Moyoco Anno, and David Beauchard. After him are Jim Starlin, Oh! great, Marv Wolfman, Alison Bechdel, Hiroyuki Takei, and John Byrne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Len Wein ranks 637. Before him are David Marks, Robert Taylor, Patricia A. McKillip, Marcia Strassman, Adolfas Šleževičius, and Bob Lanier. After him are T Bone Burnett, Lester Bangs, Mildrette Netter, Susan Bernard, Lewis Black, and Alf Hansen. Among people deceased in 2017, Len Wein ranks 534. Before him are Spartaco Landini, Jerry Pournelle, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Larissa Volpert, Frank Schepke, and Josip Weber. After him are Tore Eriksson, Geri Allen, Leila Seth, Kurt Marti, Kirti Nidhi Bista, and Tsuyoshi Yamanaka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Len Wein ranks 10,590 out of 20,380. Before him are Hiro Yamamoto (1961), Marilee Stepan (1935), Anthony Doerr (1973), Chelsea Charms (1976), Jon-Erik Hexum (1957), and Virginia Davis (1918). After him are Shawn Kemp (1969), Paul Winter (1939), Fred Clark (1914), Paul Sereno (1957), Arthur Wesley Dow (1857), and Alphonzo Bell (1875).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Len Wein ranks 37. Before him are Rose O'Neill (1874), Mike Mignola (1960), George Herriman (1880), Mort Walker (1923), Neal Adams (1941), and Harvey Kurtzman (1924). After him are Jim Starlin (1949), Marv Wolfman (1946), Alison Bechdel (1960), Harvey Pekar (1939), Bill Watterson (1958), and Scott Adams (1957).

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