Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen.

[3] One of two children of Phillip and Rosalyn (née Bauman) Wein,[4] he lived in The Bronx until age 7, when he moved with his family to Levittown, New York, on Long Island.

"[6] Approximately once a month, as a teenager, Wein and his friend Marv Wolfman took DC Comics' weekly Thursday afternoon tour of the company's offices.

[6] Wolfman was active in fanzine culture,[7] and together he and Wein produced sample superhero stories to show to the DC editorial staff.

Later that year, Wein was writing anthological mystery stories for DC's The House of Secrets and Marvel's Tower of Shadows and Chamber of Darkness.

Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson created the horror character the Swamp Thing in The House of Secrets #92 (July 1971).

[15] Libra, a supervillain created by Wein and Dillin in Justice League of America #111 (June 1974),[16] would play a leading role in Grant Morrison's Final Crisis storyline in 2008.

In the fall of 1972, Wein and writers Gerry Conway and Steve Englehart crafted a metafictional unofficial crossover spanning titles from both major comics companies.

These issues were then scripted as Uncanny X-Men #94-95 by Chris Claremont, who subsequently developed the title into one of Marvel's leading franchises.

[36] In 1986, he wrote a revival of the Blue Beetle,[37] two issues of the DC Challenge limited series,[38] and dialogued the miniseries Legends over the plots of John Ostrander.

Following his second stint at DC and a move to the West Coast, Wein served as editor-in-chief of Disney Comics for three years in the early 1990s.

After leaving Disney, Wein began writing and story editing for such animated television series as X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man, Street Fighter, ExoSquad, Phantom 2040, Godzilla, Pocket Dragon Adventures, ReBoot and War Planets: Shadow Raiders.

Wein collaborated with writer Kurt Busiek and artist Kelley Jones on the four-issue miniseries Conan: The Book of Thoth for Dark Horse Comics.

From 2005 to 2008, Wein appeared as a recurring panelist on the Los Angeles-based stage revival of the TV game show What's My Line?

[41] He wrote the storyline for the Watchmen video game, The End Is Nigh, which serves as a backstory to both the comic and the film adaptation.

Wein's first wife was Glynis Oliver,[49] a comics colorist who spent years on the X-Men titles; they were married some time prior to 1972.

[1] On April 6, 2009, Wein's California home burned down with considerable loss of property and mementos, including his Shazam Awards.