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Mark Gruenwald was Marvel’s keeper of continuity in the 1980s. He played an important role in the development of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. As a writer, he’s best known for the original Squadron Supreme series and the 60-issue Quasar series. Stephen Colbert is now in posession of Gruenwald’s Captain America shield and, when he died, Gruenwald’s ashes were mixed into the ink used in the first printing of the Squadron TPB. He got a letter published in Fantastic Four #20 (cover date – November 1963) at the age of 11.
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