John Manard · CC BY-SA 4.0

Co-created Blade with artist Gene Colan at Marvel, and at DC created or co-created Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Deathstroke, and the Nightwing identity for Dick Grayson, characters that went on to anchor DC's Teen Titans line for decades. With George Pérez he wrote Crisis on Infinite Earths, the 1985 limited series that reshaped DC Comics' entire fictional universe.