Crux v. 2: Test of Time
Born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama, Mark Waid bought his first comic in 1966 at the beginning of TV's Batmania and has never once since entertained the notion of not buying comics.  In 1987, Mark joined DC Comics as a staff editor and two years later left to pursue a full-time freelance career that spanned the 1990s and into the early 2000s.  That period led to award-winning runs onThe Flashfor DC Comics andCaptain Americafor Marvel Comics.  In 1996, he co-created the Eisner award winningKingdom Comeat DC Comics.  Since then, he has worked for every major comics publisher and has authored a broader range of well-known comics characters---includingSuperman,Batman,Spider-Man, theX-Men, andArchie---than any other writer in the history of the medium.  With his encyclopedic knowledge of comics history, Mark also serves as an historian; he has published hundreds of articles and four books on the subject, and has fielded research questions from sources as diverse as Time, Variety, and the Library of Congress.  Mark writesRuseat CrossGen, nominated for a 2002 Harvey Award as Best Series and for Best Single Story, and for which Mark himself was nominated as Best Writer.