Archie Goodwin (comic book writer)

Archie Goodwin (September 9, 1937 – February 28, 1998) was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist.

Goodwin started his career as an artist, working as an assistant in comic strips and drawing cartoons for magazines. His first editorial work was for Redbook magazine. In the early 1960's, he worked for Warren Publishing where his career oriented towards writing. Goodwin wrote scripts for King Features Syndicate, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics (where he briefly replaced Julius Schwartz as editor of Detective Comics). In 1975, Goodwin was named as chief editor for Marvel Comics.

While Goodwin worked on numerous series throughout his career, his best remembered work was probably his adaptations of the Star Wars movie franchise to the comics. Goodwin wrote a comic book series and a daily comic strip based on the characters from the movies.

Goodwin set up the Marvel Graphic Novel series, Epic Illustrated magazine and the Epic Comics imprint at Marvel that gave a number of artists and writers their first break as well as allowing established Marvel staff to work with material too difficult for the monthly titles.

Goodwin died unexpectedly in 1998.