American comic book writer (born 1947)
Steve Englehart
(
;
[3]
born April 22, 1947
[4]
) is an American writer of
comic books
and novels. He is best known for his work at
Marvel Comics
and
DC Comics
in the 1970s and 1980s. His
pseudonyms
have included
John Harkness
and
Cliff Garnett
.
Early life
[
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]
Steve Englehart majored in psychology at
Wesleyan University
, where he was a member of The
Kappa Alpha Society
, earning his
Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1969.
[5]
He had served in the
United States Army
, but was
honorably discharged
as a
conscientious objector
to the
Vietnam War
.
[6]
Career
[
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]
Marvel Comics
[
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]
Englehart's first work in comics was as an art assistant to
Neal Adams
on a 10-page story by writer
Denny O'Neil
in
Warren Publishing
's black-and-white
horror comics
magazine
Vampirella
#10 (March 1971).
[7]
After briefly serving as a member of the
Crusty Bunkers
,
[8]
Englehart started working as a full-time writer. He began with a co-writing credit, with
Gardner Fox
, on the six-page, Englehart-drawn "Retribution" in Warren's
Eerie
#35 (Sept. 1971). Then, as Marvel editor
Roy Thomas
said in a 2007 interview, Englehart became
...a summer replacement or some such for [writer]
Gary Friedrich
. When Gary wanted to go away for a while, he got Steve, who was sort of a young aspiring artist when he came up to Neal [Adams]'s studio, and he ended up at Marvel as a
proofreader
. Then he wanted to write, and I believe he wrote a few pages of a sample script. Anyway, I gave him "
The Beast
" [in
Amazing Adventures
] to try out on, and that worked out pretty well.
[9]
Englehart said he had first done uncredited co-scripting on a number of stories:
When Gary Friedrich's
Sgt. Fury
#94 came in, de facto editor-in-chief Roy Thomas wanted major revisions in the script and had me do them. Evidently he liked the result, because right after that, Gary turned back a job he'd been holding onto - dialoguing a little story plotted by
Al Hewetson
- and Roy asked me to script it from scratch. That was [the seven-page] "Terror of the Pterodactyl" [drawn by
Syd Shores
, in
Monsters on the Prowl
#15 (Feb. 1972)] and my first credited job.... Over the next six months, even as my credited stories began to appear, I continued to do uncredited collaborations - sometimes by design and sometimes at the last minute."
[10]
This uncredited work included Friedrich's
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos
#97,
Iron Man
#45, and
The Incredible Hulk
vol. 2, #152, plus two
romance comics
stories and a
Western
tale.
[10]
Englehart then wrote two romance stories under the pseudonym
Anne Spencer
, in
Our Love
#18 (Aug. 1972) and
My Love
#19 (Sept. 1972), and, under his own name, a standalone supernatural story in the anthology
Journey into Mystery
vol. 2, #1 (Oct. 1972)
[11]
During his first credited superhero work, on a series starring erstwhile
X-Men
member the
Beast
in
Amazing Adventures
vol. 2, #12?17 (May 1972 ? March 1973), Englehart integrated the
Patsy Walker
character, the star of a
teen
romantic
-
comedy
series, into the
Marvel Universe
alongside the company's superheroes.
[12]
He and artist
Sal Buscema
launched
The Defenders
as an ongoing series in August 1972
[13]
[14]
and introduced the
Valkyrie
to the team in issue #4 (Feb. 1973).
[15]
Englehart has stated that he added the Valkyrie to the Defenders "to provide some texture to the group."
[16]
He wrote
The Avengers
from issue #105 (Nov. 1972) to #152 (Oct. 1976). During his time on that title, he wrote several major storylines including "The Avengers Defenders War" in issues #115?118 (Sept.?Dec. 1973), crossing over into
The Defenders
#8?11 (Sept.?Dec. 1973);
[17]
"The Celestial Madonna" in #129?135 (Nov. 1974 ? May 1975) and
Giant-Size Avengers
#2?4 (Nov. 1974 ? May 1975);
[18]
[19]
[20]
and "The Serpent Crown" in #141?144 (Nov. 1975 ? Feb. 1976) and #147?149 (May?July 1976).
[21]
In the fall of 1972, Englehart and writers
Gerry Conway
and
Len Wein
crafted a
metafictional
unofficial
crossover
spanning titles from both major comics companies. Each comic featured Englehart, Conway, and Wein, as well as Wein's first wife
Glynis
,
interacting with
Marvel or DC characters at the
Rutland Halloween Parade
in
Rutland, Vermont
. Beginning in
Amazing Adventures
#16 (by Englehart with art by
Bob Brown
and
Frank McLaughlin
), the story continued in
Justice League of America
#103 (by Wein,
Dick Dillin
and
Dick Giordano
), and concluded in
Thor
#207 (by Conway and penciler
John Buscema
). As Englehart explained in 2010, "It certainly seemed like a radical concept and we knew that we had to be subtle (laughs) and each story had to stand on its own, but we really worked it out. It's really worthwhile to read those stories back to back to back ? it didn't matter to us that one was at DC and two were at Marvel ? I think it was us being creative, thinking what would be really cool to do."
[22]
[23]
[24]
Englehart had a run on
Doctor Strange
(originally with artist
Frank Brunner
, later with
Gene Colan
), in which Strange's mentor, the
Ancient One
, died, and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme. Englehart and Brunner, audaciously, also created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-Neg ("Genesis" spelled backward) goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches the beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically, the original creation (
Marvel Premiere
#14). Editor-in-chief
Stan Lee
, seeing the issue after publication, ordered Englehart and Brunner to print a retraction saying this was not God but
a
god, so as to avoid offending religious readers. The writer and artist concocted a fake
letter
from a fictitious minister praising the story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter, and dropped the retraction order.
[25]
Englehart's
Doctor Strange
#14 featured a crossover story with
The Tomb of Dracula
#44, another series which was being drawn by Gene Colan at the time.
[26]
In Englehart's final story for the series, he sent Dr. Strange back in time to meet
Benjamin Franklin
.
[27]
Describing that time, Englehart said in 1998,
We'd rampage around New York City. There was one night when a bunch of us, including
Jim Starlin
, went out on the town. We partied all day, then did some more
acid
, then roamed around town until dawn and saw all sorts of amazing things (most of which ended up in
Master of Kung Fu
, which Jim and I were doing at the time).
[28]
Englehart and artist Starlin co-created the character
Shang-Chi
, Master of Kung Fu,
[29]
[30]
though they only worked on the early issues of the series. Englehart reconciled the existence of
Captain America
and sidekick
Bucky
in Marvel's 1950s precursor,
Atlas Comics
, an anomaly that had been ignored since Captain America's 1964 reintroduction to Marvel presented him as having been in
suspended animation
since 1945. Englehart's newly
retconned
history stated that the
1950s Captain America
and Bucky had been different characters from the ones who had debuted in the 1940s.
[31]
[32]
[33]
This was followed by
an extended storyline
of Steve Rogers becoming so profoundly disillusioned with the United States
[34]
[35]
that he temporarily abandoned his Captain America identity to become
Nomad
[36]
until he decided to refocus his purpose as the defender of America's ideals, not necessarily its government.
[37]
The Englehart/Sal Buscema run on the
Captain America
title saw the series become one of Marvel's top-sellers.
[38]
In 2010,
Comics Bulletin
ranked Englehart's work on
Captain America
,
The Avengers
, and
Doctor Strange
fourth, eighth, and ninth, respectively, on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".
[39]
In March 1976,
[40]
Englehart had a falling-out with Marvel and left the company.
DC Comics
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]
Englehart, in fact, planned to quit comics altogether and pursue novels, but
DC Comics
publisher
Jenette Kahn
persuaded him to come to DC. His only previous credited work for the company had been scripting the
Batman
story "Night of the Stalker!" in
Detective Comics
#439 (Feb?March 1974).
[41]
"I said, 'Okay I'll fix
Justice League [of America]
for you, but I'm only going to do this for a year."
[42]
To that end, he wrote
Justice League of America
#139?146 and 149?150, with artist
Dick Dillin
, and additionally wrote an eight-issue arc of Batman stories in
Detective Comics
#469?476, with
pencilers
Walt Simonson
and
Marshall Rogers
. In this arc, he recreated the Batman as a pulp-oriented, dark character;
[43]
the
Joker
's persona as a homicidal maniac; and introduced love interest
Silver St. Cloud
.
[44]
Englehart claims this storyline was adapted as the
first Batman film
in 1989, with Englehart providing uncredited development.
[45]
The Englehart and Rogers pairing was described in 2009 by comics writer and historian
Robert Greenberger
as "one of the greatest" creative teams to work on the Batman character.
[46]
DC Comics writer and executive
Paul Levitz
noted that "Arguably fans' best-loved version of Batman in the mid-1970s, writer Steve Englehart and penciller Rogers's
Detective
run featured an unambiguously homicidal Joker...in noirish, moodily rendered stories that evoked the classic Kane-Robinson era."
[47]
In their story "The Laughing Fish", the
Joker
is brazen enough to disfigure fish with a rictus grin, then expects to be granted a federal
trademark
on them, only to start killing bureaucrats who try to explain that obtaining such a claim on a natural resource is legally impossible.
[48]
The
Detective Comics
storyline was reprinted in trade paperback in 1999 as
Batman: Strange Apparitions
.
[49]
Englehart and Rogers had a short run on DC's revived
Mister Miracle
series as well.
[50]
His run on
Justice League of America
included another unofficial crossover between DC and Marvel in issue #142 by reworking his character
Mantis
into the DC Universe as a character named "Willow".
[51]
Other contributions to the series were crafting a new origin for the team
[52]
and the induction of the character
Hawkwoman
into the team's membership.
[53]
Englehart temporarily left comics at this juncture, moving to Europe before his first issue of
Detective
was published. During this time he wrote a
fantasy
/
occult
novel,
The Point Man
,
[54]
which was republished in 2010.
[55]
A 25-page Englehart-Rogers story featuring
Madame Xanadu
, originally commissioned for
Doorway to Nightmare
, sat in inventory for years before being published as the
one-shot
Madame Xanadu
in 1981, in DC's first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the "
direct market
" of fans and collectors.
[56]
Return to Marvel
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]
In 1983, Marvel's
creator-owned
imprint
Epic Comics
published
Coyote
, a series he had earlier created at
Eclipse Comics
with Rogers, in collaboration with artist
Steve Leialoha
. Among those he collaborated with on the title was a young
Todd McFarlane
, whom Englehart hired on the basis of McFarlane's
Coyote
art samples, which was McFarlane's first comic book work.
[57]
[58]
[59]
Englehart returned to mainstream Marvel comics later that decade with stints on
West Coast Avengers
, the second
Vision
and the
Scarlet Witch
limited series (with artist
Richard Howell
),
Silver Surfer
(again with Rogers), and
Fantastic Four
(during which editorial disputes led to his using the pseudonym
John Harkness
, a name he had first used on his last issue of
Mister Miracle
). Englehart was going to be the regular writer of
Daredevil
in 1986 but left after only one issue due to an editorial conflict.
[60]
Simultaneously, Englehart wrote DC Comics'
Green Lantern
, overseeing the title's name change to
Green Lantern Corps.
[61]
During that time he also wrote both the DC weekly crossover series
Millennium
(Jan?Feb 1988)
[62]
and the first two issues of the spin-off
The New Guardians
. Issue #2 was notable for featuring the villain
SnowFlame
, a superpowered human who derived his powers from cocaine.
[63]
Other comic work
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]
In 1992,
Jim Shooter
hired Englehart to write for
Valiant Comics
where he scripted issue #1?4 of
X-O-Manowar
and the first issue of
Shadowman
.
[64]
Also in 1992, he co-created the
Ultraverse
comics universe for
Malibu Comics
and wrote
Night Man
and the superhero-team series
The Strangers
.
Night Man
was later adapted for a
syndicated television series
which ran for two seasons. Englehart wrote three episodes of the television series.
[65]
He also wrote issues of other Malibu comic series like
Freex
,
Hardcase
and
Prototype
.
For
Claypool Comics
, he wrote the supernatural series
Phantom of Fear City
#1?12 (May 1993 ? May 1995) and, for
Topps Comics
, several
Jurassic Park
limited series in the years 1993 to 1995.
Return to Marvel and DC
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]
In the early 2000s, Englehart returned to comics to write the miniseries
Hellcat
,
Fantastic Four: Big Town
and
Avengers: Celestial Quest
for Marvel and stories for
The
Batman Chronicles
and
Legends of the DC Universe
for DC. In 2005, he reunited with Rogers and Austin on the
miniseries
Batman: Dark Detective
,
[66]
[67]
elements of which he alleged were adapted into the Batman film
The Dark Knight
.
[68]
The next year, he wrote a storyline featuring the
Detroit Era Justice League
and the
Justice Society of America
that ran in
JLA Classified
#22?25 and
JSA Classified
#14?16 for DC, and the one-shot
Strange Westerns starring the
Black Rider
for Marvel.
Novels
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Starting in 1994, he wrote a series of young adult books for
Avon
, including the
DNAgers
series
[69]
(with his wife, Terry) and the
Countdown
series.
[70]
Countdown to Flight
[71]
was selected by
NASA
for its school curriculum on the
Wright Brothers
.
[72]
In the mid-2000s, Englehart turned his 1980 novel,
The Point Man
, into Book Zero for a series concerning its hero, Max August. The first sequel,
The Long Man
,
[73]
was published in 2009,
The Plain Man
in 2011,
[74]
and
The Arena Man
in 2013. In the series, Max became immortal in 1985 and is dealing with the consequences two decades later in real time.
He has admitted to writing the novel
Hellstorm
in the TALON Force series under the house pseudonym
Cliff Garnett
.
[75]
Film and TV
[
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]
For producer
Michael Uslan
, Englehart wrote early treatments and served as script doctor for the
Batman
film
that was based on his comics series; it was later scripted by
Sam Hamm
and directed by
Tim Burton
.
[76]
He wrote three episodes of the television series
Night Man
, an adaptation of the
comic series
of the same name that he had created for Malibu Comics.
[65]
Englehart also worked in animation, with episodes of
Street Fighter
and
G.I. Joe Extreme
, and wrote one of the three episodes in Disney's
Atlantis: Milo's Return
film. His screenplay for an unproduced film,
Majorca
, was published as a book by Black Coat Press.
[77]
Several of Englehart's characters appear in the
Marvel Cinematic Universe
. The 2014 film
Guardians of the Galaxy
featured his character
Star-Lord
.
[78]
He returned in its 2017 sequel
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
, which also featured
Mantis
.
[79]
Both characters appear in
Avengers: Infinity War
(2018),
Avengers: Endgame
(2019),
Thor: Love and Thunder
,
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
(both 2022), and
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
(2023).
[80]
The 2021 film
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
features his character
Shang-Chi
.
Music
[
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]
in 2019, Steve Englehart appeared in the music video for "Welcome To My World" by ZorDonofDoom.
[81]
In 2021, Englehart created titles and themes based on
Shang-Chi
for the album
Prism Club
from InRage Entertainment.
[82]
Personal life
[
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]
Englehart married Marie-Therese (Terry) Beach in 1975.
[83]
They have two sons, Alex and Eric.
[84]
Awards
[
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]
- 1977: nominated for Favourite Comicbook Writer at the
Eagle Awards
[85]
- 1978: Favourite Writer at the Eagle Awards
[86]
- 1978: Roll of Honour at the Eagle Awards
[86]
- 1978: nominated for Favourite Single Story at the Eagle Awards for
Detective Comics
#472:
I am the Batman
with
Marshall Rogers
[86]
- 1978: nominated for Favourite Continued Story at the Eagle Awards for
Detective Comics
#471?472 with Marshall Rogers
[86]
- 1979:
Inkpot Award
[87]
- 1979: nominated for Best Comic Book Writer (US) at the Eagle Awards
[88]
- 1979: nominated for Best Continued Story at the Eagle Awards for
Detective Comics
#475?476 with Marshall Rogers
[88]
Bibliography
[
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]
Comics work includes:
Antarctic Press
[
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]
Claypool Comics
[
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]
- Phantom of Fear City
#1?12 (1993?1995)
DC Comics
[
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]
Deluxe Comics
[
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]
Eclipse Comics
[
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]
Malibu Comics
[
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]
- Break-Thru
#1?2 (1993?1994)
- Freex
#6 (1993)
- Hardcase
#4 (1993)
- Mantra
#12 (1994)
- Night Man
#1?23 (1993?1995)
- Night Man: The Pilgrim Conundrum Saga
#1 (1995)
- Prototype
#5 (1993)
- Solitaire
#3 (1994)
- Solution
#5 (1994)
- Strangers
#1?24 (1993?1995)
- Strangers: The Pilgrim Conundrum Saga
#1 (1995)
- Ultraverse
Origins
#1 (1994)
- Ultraverse Premiere
#0 (1993)
Marvel Comics
[
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]
- Amazing Adventures
vol. 2 #12?17 (1972?1973)
- Amazing High Adventure
#1?3 (1984?1986)
- The Avengers
#105?144, 147?152 (1972?1976)
- Avengers: Celestial Quest
#1?8 (2001?2002)
- Avengers: The Ultron Imperative
#1 (2001)
- Captain America
#153?167, 169?186 (1972?1975)
- Captain Marvel
#33?46 (1974?1976)
- Daredevil
#237 (1986)
- Deadly Hands of Kung Fu
#1?2 (1974)
- The Defenders
#1?11 (1972?1973)
- Doc Savage
#1?5 (1972?1973)
- Doctor Strange
vol. 2 #1?18 (1974?1976)
- Fantastic Four
#304?333,
Annual
#20?21 (1987?1989)
- Fantastic Four: Big Town
#1?4 (2001)
- Giant-Size Avengers
#2?4 (1974?1975)
- Hellcat
#1?3 (2000)
- Heroes for Hope
Starring the X-Men
#1 (1985)
- Hero for Hire
#5?14, 16 (1973)
- The Incredible Hulk
#159?171 (1973?1974)
- Journey into Mystery
vol. 2 #1 (1972)
- Justice
#2?5, 7 (1986?1987)
- Kull the Destroyer
#12?15 (1974)
- Marvel Fanfare
#51 (1990)
- Marvel Premiere
#9?14 (1973?1974)
- Marvel Preview
#4 (1976)
- Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns
#1 (2006)
- Master of Kung Fu
#17?19 (1974)
- Monsters on the Prowl
#15 (1972)
- My Love
vol. 2 #16, 19 (1972)
- Night Man
#∞, #1?4 (1995?1996)
- Night Man vs.
Wolverine
#0 (1995)
- Our Love Story
#15, 18 (1972)
- Power Man
#26 (1975)
- Savage Sword of Conan
#2 (1974)
- Silver Surfer
vol. 3 #1?20, 22?31,
Annual
#1?2 (1987?1989)
- Skull the Slayer
#4 (1976)
- Special Marvel Edition
#15?16 (1973?1974)
- Super-Villain Team-Up
#5?8 (1976)
- Thor Annual
#5 (1976)
- The Vision and the Scarlet Witch
vol. 2 #1?12 (1985?1986)
- West Coast Avengers
vol. 2 #1?29, 31?37, 39,
Annual
#1?3 (1985?1988)
Epic Comics
[
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]
Star Reach
[
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]
Topps Comics
[
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]
- Jurassic Park
: Raptor
#1?2 (1993)
- Jurassic Park: Raptors Attack
#1?4 (1994)
- Jurassic Park: Raptors Hijack
#1?4 (1994)
- Return to Jurassic Park
#1?4 (1995)
Valiant Comics
[
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]
Warren Publishing
[
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]
Television and film credits
[
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]
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[
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]
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.
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Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 175: "The great Marvel artist Gene Colan was doing superb work illustrating both
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. So it made sense for
Strange
writer Steve Englehart and
Tomb
author Marv Wolfman to devise a crossover story."
- ^
Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 174: "The year 1976 was the 200th anniversary of the United States' Declaration of Independence. So it was appropriate that several of the major events in Marvel history that year dealt with political themes...In September, just before departing from Marvel for DC Comics, writer Steve Englehart sent Dr. Strange back through time to meet one of the men responsible for the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin."
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- ^
Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 156: "In his first story line as
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writer, Steve Englehart revealed that an unnamed teacher had rediscovered the 'Super-Soldier serum' in the 1950s and he and a student used it to turn themselves into new versions of Captain America and Bucky."
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When Steve and I [Sal Buscema] got on the book...if I remember correctly, the book hit #5 in sales. It really shot up the charts.
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Batman was now a true creature of the night, and every artist and writer team worth their creative salt wanted a piece of him. One of the greatest of such pairs consisted of writer Steve Englehart and artist Marshall Rogers...when Rogers joined Englehart in
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issue #471 (August 1977), their styles meshed with such ease that the result gave the impression of years' worth of collaboration.
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gave an equal spotlight to all the defenders of Space Sector 2814."
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