Michael Fleisher

Michael Fleisher (1942-2018) was an American comics writer. At DC Comics he wrote The Spectre in Adventure Comics and, from 1974, the western antihero Jonah Hex, whose title he scripted for more than a decade before continuing it in the sequel series Hex. At Marvel he wrote Ghost Rider, Spider-Woman, Conan the Barbarian and The Savage Sword of Conan, and he also worked for Warren Publishing and 2000 AD. He compiled the three-volume Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes (1976-1978). He later took a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Michigan and published a study of cattle raiding on the Tanzania-Kenya frontier.