# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/len-wein
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:10:45.998Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/len-wein"
name: "Len Wein"
slug: "len-wein"
description: "Leonard Norman Wein 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. Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen."
tagline: "American comic book writer and editor (1948–2017)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-06-12"
deathDate: "2017-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump