| Marc Guggenheim | |
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| Born | September 24, 1970 |
Marc Guggenheim (born September 24, 1970) is an American television writer-producer and a writer for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. His brother is screenwriter Eric Guggenheim.
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Marc Guggenheim was born and raised on Long Island, New York. He worked in Boston, Massachusetts, as a lawyer and part-time writer for five years. After a romantic comedy script led to a few meetings with producers, he moves to California to pursue a career as a screenwriter. A script for The Practice was his first produced work. He eventually served as a supervising editor for Law & Order, Jack and Bobby, CSI: Miami, and In Justice.
With Greg Berlanti, Guggenheim is the co-creator of the ABC show Eli Stone. He later become executive producer of ABC's No Ordinary Family.
He served as an intern at Marvel for a time in 1990 for editor Terry Kavanaugh, and was the colorist for an eight-page Iceman/Human Torch story while there. His writing experiences also include the comic books Aquaman for DC Comics, Wolverine and The Punisher for Marvel, and scripts for the Rare Game Perfect Dark Zero. He wrote Blade for 12 issues with artist Howard Chaykin.
In 2006, Guggenheim took over the writing The Flash.[1] Guggenheim's run concluded with the death of the fourth Flash, Bart Allen.
In 2007, Guggenheim became one of the rotating team of writers on The Amazing Spider-Man. His first story appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #546. He also launched a creator-owned comic, Resurrection, for Oni Press.
He wrote the comic book Young X-Men for Marvel which was launched in April 2008, and in 2008 was working on a comic with Hugh Jackman and Virgin Comics, Nowhere Man,[2] and on Super Zombies for Dynamite Entertainment[3] and Stephen King.[4]
He wrote the script for the 2009 video game X-Men Origins: Wolverine, developed by Raven Software, a video game based on the film of the same name.
Guggenheim was intended to take over Action Comics after the War of the Supermen limited series,[5] but has been replaced by Paul Cornell instead Guggenheim will write another project.[6] His other project is in fact writer of Justice Society of America.[7]