House of Mystery

Bernard Albert Wrightson was born in Dundalk, Maryland on October 27, 1948. He learned comic book art from studying comics and from correspondence courses. His first published work, The Man Who Murdered Himself, appeared in House of Mystery, from DC, in 1969. He helped create the popular DC Comics character Swamp Thing, who first appeared in an issue of House of Secrets in 1971. Swamp Thing was promoted to his own series in 1972.

In 1974, Wrightson began working at Warren Publishing, where his work, including original material and adaptations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, appeared in Creepy and Eerie magazines. In 1983, he adapted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Marvel Comics. He also contributed character designs for films, including creatures, aliens and ghouls for The Mist, Galaxy Quest, and the original Ghostbusters. He died from brain cancer on March 18, 2017 at the age of 68.

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