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Alan Zelenetz is an American film producer and comic-book writer best known for co-creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics and a founder of Ovie Entertainment. Zelenetz also wrote several issues of Marvel's Moon Knight series, several issues of Thor and a run of Conan the King (issues #16–28).

Alan Zelenetz
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer

Biography

Before becoming a film producer, he was a junior high school principal at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, an Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn, and Solomon Schechter High School of New York.[1] One of the science teachers under his supervision was the father of Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi (1998) and Requiem for a Dream (2000).

Alan Zelenetz quit his job as a high school principal and worked his way through a position at Marvel. He did some volunteer proofreading work for a while, and then started to write for Thor, Conan the Barbarian, and Moon Knight. For Moon Knight, he introduced the Jewish identity of the character in the storyline.[1] In 1982, in Thor Annual #10, Zelenetz introduced the first Nigerian hero, Shango (recruited by Thor to confront Demogorge), in the history of Marvel.[2]

While working for Marvel Comics, Zelenetz was the main author and researcher for The Official Handbook of the Conan Universe,[3] a guide to the Hyborian Age, the fictional setting of the Conan the Barbarian stories.

He is also director of ICI, the Institute for Curricular Initiatives in New York City.[4]

Selected filmography

• Pi (1998) (Judaica advisor)
• Darkon (2006) (producer, executive producer;)
• The Funeral Party (2007) (co-producer)
• Andorra scheduled in (2007) (producer)

Selected comics bibliography

• Alien Legion (1984) 1-20
• Alien Legion (1987) 1
• Amazing High Adventure 4
• The Avengers vol.1 224
• Bizarre Adventures 32
• Conan The Barbarian 145
• Conan The King 20-27
• Epic Illustrated 30
• Official Handbook of the Conan Universe
• King Conan 16-19
• Kull the Conqueror 1-10
• Kull the Vale of Shadow OGN
• Marvel Age Annual 1
• Marvel Fanfare vol 1 13, 34-37
• Marvel Graphic Novel 15, 25
• Master of Kung Fu vol 1 123-125
• Moon Knight vol 1 18, 21–22, 27, 32, 36-38
• Moon Knight vol 2 1-4
• The Savage Sword of Conan 83. 86. 88. 95
• Thor vol 1 329–336, Annual 10-13
• What If? vol 1 35, 39, 41

References

External links

• Alan Zelenetz at IMDb
• Ovie Entertainment
• Works in Marvel Comics (as a writer)

Preceded by Doug Moench	Thor writer 1983 (with Bob Hall in early 1983)	Succeeded by Walt Simonson

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