Brooklyn-born Marv Wolfman is a writer best known as a writer of comic books, including The New Teen Titans, Tomb of Dracula, and Crisis on Infinate Earths,.

Marv was active in comic book fandom before breaking into professional comics at DC in 1968 with his friend and frequent collaborator Len Wein.

When Marv first began working for DC Comics, he received DC's first writing credit on their mystery magazines. In those days Gerry Conway wrote pages between the actual stories which had the book's hosts tell you what was coming up. In one, knowing Marv wrote the next story, he wrote that the following story was told to him by a wandering Wolfman. The comics code, which did not permit the mention of werewolves or wolfmen at the time, demanded it be removed. DC informed the code organization that the Wolfman in question was the name of the author, so the code insisted that he be given a credit to show that the Wolfman in question was a real person and not a monster. Once Marv was given a credit, the other writers demanded them, too. Soon, credits were routinly given to all writers and artists.

In 1974 Marv Wolfman and Len Wein moved to Marvel Comics as protégés of then-editor Roy Thomas. When Thomas stepped down, Len and Marv took over as editors. Initially Len was in charge of the color comics and Marv the black and white titles. After about a year, Marv succeeded Len as editor-in-chief of the color line. One innovation which Marv instituted was the "warehouse story"; when writers and artists missed deadlines, it cost Marvel a great deal of money to delay the release of a scheduled issue, and using reprints to tread water wasn't as appealing to readers. So, Marv had various creative teams produce complete stories for various titles, which were then stored for possible later use if a book went off schedule, allowing the editor to keep the book on track with an entirely original story that wouldn't alienate readers.

Because Marvel was producing an ever-expanding line of comics, Marv found it difficult to both supervise their titles and still write comics. He opted to step down as editor-in-chief in order to spend more time editing and writing.

While at Marvel Marv wrote lengthy runs of Amazing Spider-Man (where he co-created the Black Cat); Fantastic Four; and Doctor Strange and created the space-faring hero Nova.

His work on Tomb of Dracula with artist Gene Colan became one of the high points of the 1970's horror trend in comics. Taking Bram Stoker's basic story, Marv created his own vampire mythology and introduced a set of new characters, including Blade.

In 1980, Marv returned to DC where with penciller George Pérez he relaunched DC's Teen Titans. The New Teen Titans added the Wolfman-Pérez creations Raven, Starfire and Cyborg to the old team's Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash and Beast Boy (renamed Changeling). The series became DC's first new hit in years, and its first serious competitor to Marvel since the early 1970s.

In 1985, Marv and George Pérez launched Crisis on Infinite Earths, a 12-issue limited series celebrating DC's 50th anniversary. Featuring a cast of thousands and a timeline that ranged from the beginning of the universe to the end of time, it killed scores of characters, integrated a number of heroes from other companies to DC continuity, and re-wrote 50 years of DC universe history in order to streamline it.

Marv was also involved in the "post-Crisis" relaunch of the Superman line, reinventing nemesis Lex Luthor and initially scripting the Adventures of Superman title.

Marv spent much of the late 1980s and early 1990s working in animation, on series including Reboot, Transformers: Beast Machines, and Superman.

In the 1990s Marv began writing in comics again, scripting Defexx, the flagship title of Devil's Due Productions's Aftermath line. He also wrote an "Infinite Crisis" issue of DC's "Secret Files", and consulted with writer Geoff Johns on several issues of The Teen Titans.

Marv also wrote a novel based on Crisis on Infinite Earths, but rather than following the original plot, he created a new story starring the Barry Allen Flash that takes place during the original Crisis story. Marv wrote the novelization of the film Superman Returns, and worked on a direct-to-video animated movie, Condor, for Stan Lee's Pow Entertainment.

In 2006, Marv was editorial director of Impact Comics, publisher of educational manga-style comics for high school students.

Also in 2006, Marv returned to familiar territory as writer of Nightwing for DC. He is also currently working on a direct-to-DVD movie adaptation of the popular "Judas Contract" storyline from his tenure with George Perez on The New Teen Titans.

In 2007, Marv's 120-page graphic novel Homeland: The Illustrated History of the State of Israel (illustrated by Mario Ruiz) was released by Valor Comics, and has already won two prestigious awards. Marv's Superman Returns novelization won the first Scribe Award (an industry award given by fellow writers) for adapted novelization.

Visit Marv’s official site at www.marvwolfman.com.