Bruce Jones is the former Editor-at-Large for the weekly magazine "Autosport", the acknowledged world authority on motor sport at all levels, from the pinnacle of Formula One to the grass-roots formulae. The author of the best-selling "Ultimate Encyclopedia of Formula One" & "Fifty Years of the Formula One World Championship", he has contributed to many motor sport books & magazines worldwide, including biographies of Formula One team owners Frank Williams & Colin Chapman.
Leonard Norman Wein was born in New York on June 12, 1948. He received an art degree from Farmingdale State College. He would become a prolific comic book writer. He and Marv Wolfman sold their first work to DC Comics in 1968. Wein wrote for Batman, the Flash, Superman, the Justice League of America, and numerous other comics series. He and Bernie Wrightson created Swamp Thing, who first appeared in 1971. In 1975, Wein and David Cockrum created new characters for the relaunch of Marvel Comics' X-Men including Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Wolverine, who first appeared in an Incredible Hulk story Wein wrote. Wein was an editor for Marvel, DC and Disney Comics. In 1986, he was editor on the Watchmen series by Alan Moore. He had writing credits on numerous television shows, many of them based on characters he had helped create. He died on September 10, 2017 at the age of 69.
Russell DeHart Heath Jr. was born in Manhattan, New York on September 29, 1926. After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He had just finished basic training and was awaiting deployment when the war ended. Before becoming a comic book artist, he briefly worked in advertising. He worked for Timely Comics, mostly on westerns like Two-Gun Kid. As his career went along he began drawing more and more war comics including work on G.I. Combat for DC Comics. He also drew suspense, mystery, and romance comics. His work included Plastic Sam! for an early issue of Mad magazine and Cowgirls at War for The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor in 1973. He moved to California in the late 1970s and worked as a layout artist or designer on a number of animated series including The Karate Kid and G.I. Joe. He died from cancer on August 23, 2018 at the age of 91.