There he spent his teen years at Will Rogers High School and in used magazine stores searching for EC Comics.
His classmates at Will Rogers included illustrator Paul Davis and Broomhilda creator Russell Myers forming a cartoonist's club that met daily at the Owl Drugstore at 11th Street and Pittsburg in Tulsa.
After one year at the University of Oklahoma, Goodwin moved to New York City to attend classes at what became the School of Visual Arts.
[7] Goodwin began as an artist drawing cartoons for magazines and as a freelance "writer and occasional art assistant" to Leonard Starr's newspaper comic strip Mary Perkins, On Stage.
According to Goodwin's wife Anne T. Murphy, the magazine's editors "then were so delighted when he wrote back to say that it was his real name that they used the anecdote as the introduction to the story, which ran in the July 1962 issue.
Star Hawks was a comic strip created by Ron Goulart and Gil Kane, first published on October 3, 1977, that ran through May 2, 1981 by United Feature Syndicate.
Combat, Our Fighting Forces, and Star Spangled War Stories,[9] and replaced Julius Schwartz as editor of Detective Comics[9] for one year.
Goodwin's collaboration with Walt Simonson on the "Manhunter" back-up feature in Detective Comics won several awards.
[14][15] Goodwin also wrote the Batman lead feature in Detective Comics, where his collaborators included artists Jim Aparo,[16] Sal Amendola, Howard Chaykin,[17] and Alex Toth.
[18] Goodwin first worked for Marvel Comics in 1968 and was the original writer on the Iron Man series which launched that year.
[20] Luke Cage, the first African American superhero to star in an eponymous Marvel comic book series, was created by Goodwin and artist John Romita Sr. in June 1972.
[21] While briefly writing The Tomb of Dracula series, Goodwin and artist Gene Colan introduced the supporting character Rachel van Helsing.
He explained, "[Marvel editor-in-chief] Jim Shooter keeps saying of me: 'Well, here's this guy, in one meeting, he suddenly spews out half the ideas for the New Universe.'
"[27] During Goodwin and Infantino's tenure on Marvel's Star Wars series, it was one of the industry's top selling titles.
[28] He wrote comic book adaptations for Marvel of the two Star Wars sequels as well as other science-fiction films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner.
One reviewer praised Archie Goodwin's script adaptation, which he felt improved on some flaws in the film: "Goodwin... seems to get more into the class divisions on board the Nostromo between Ripley and Parker... [T]he characters are a bit more fleshed out..." Heavy Metal published an eight-page teaser for the book in Heavy Metal magazine in vol.
"[4] Goodwin was at the time still working for Marvel as a writer, and Shooter recalls concocting a plan whereby the company "pretended that Archie reported to Stan.
Archie also gave many writers and artists their first jobs in comic including Todd McFarlane in Coyote #11-14 with his first cover on issue 13.
[9] Goodwin's Creepy work is cited by editor Mark Chiarello as informing the creation of the Batman: Black & White series.
In the same years, he also won Shazam Awards for Best Individual Short Story for "The Himalayan Incident" in Detective Comics No.
Goodwin stated in his final interview, "I think that Manhunter is one of just several projects that I've worked on that I consider a highlight in my career.
In 1993, he won the Wizard Fan Award with Denny O'Neil, Joe Quesada and Kevin Nowlan for the Favorite Miniseries for Batman: Sword of Azrael.
[39] As well as receiving the UK Comic Art Award for Best Graphic Novel with Scott Hampton for Batman: Night Cries.
1997 brought more Harvey Awards to Archie by winning Best Domestic Reprint Project, with Bob Kahan, for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns 10th Anniversary Edition Hardcover.
First with Gary Gianni for Best Short Story for "Heroes" from Batman: Black & White and another with James Robinson, Tony Harris and Wade Von Grawbadger for Best Serialized Story for Starman "Sand and Stars" (Issues #20-23) Goodwin was honored posthumously in 1998, by being named to the National Comics Award Roll of Honour and he was entered into the Eisner Hall of Fame.
He is name-checked in issues of Marvel's Star Wars comics including in the alien-language words "Niwdoog Eihcra", his name in reverse.
[42] The scene has often been interpreted as an allegory for Goodwin's relationship with Jim Shooter, but Cerebus writer/artist Dave Sim denies this and said "I have nothing but the greatest respect for Archie and in no way intended anything but a little 'hello' to one of my favorite New Yorkers.
5, (July 1989) Goodwin appears as King Archibald the First in the short story The Alien-Ated Legion, which parodies the mature approach of Epic Comics.
34 (April 1946) and remained unnamed until it was given a name on a Gotham City map made for the Batman: No Man's Land crossover event in 1999.
13 (June 1999) features the last appearance of the characters with Mr. Nice leaving the group to fulfill a prophecy, with the issue being dedicated to Archie Goodwin.