Howard Mackie

American comic book editor and writer (born 1958)
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Howard Mackie (born January 22, 1958) is an American comic book editor and writer. He has worked almost exclusively for Marvel Comics and is best known as the co creator of the Danny Ketch version of the Ghost Rider character.

Mackie grew up in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, mostly raised by his mother, as his father died when he was seven.

Mackie started his career in comics in 1984 as an assistant editor for Mark Gruenwald. Early in Mackie's career, a running gag in Gruenwald's columns was that Mackie was a mysterious figure whose face no one at Marvel had ever seen. Promoted in early 1987 to Managing Editor of Special Projects, Mackie wrote Ghost Rider until issue #69 (Jan. 1996). He authored two Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher team up one shots, Hearts of Darkness (1991) and its sequel The Dark Design (1994). In 1992, Mackie became the regular writer of Web of Spider Man with #85. He would remain on various Spider Man titles through the Clone Saga. In January 1999, Mackie became the writer of both The Amazing Spider Man and the Peter Parker: Spider Man series when those two titles were relaunched with new first issues. Mackie left the Spider Man franchise with The Amazing Spider Man vol. 2, #29 (May 2001). Mackie's work on the X Men line included writing the spin off title X Factor from #115–149 (1995–1998) as well as its successor title Mutant X (1998–2001). He wrote several mini series featuring Gambit, Wolverine, and Rogue. In late 2009, Mackie teamed with Tom DeFalco to write the six issue miniseries Spider Man: Clone Saga, whose story was based on Mackie's original notes for the 1990s crossover. It was later collected in the trade paperback Spider Man: The Real Clone Saga. Mackie wrote The Ravagers series for DC Comics in 2012 as part of the "Second Wave" of The New 52.