Alan Zelenetz

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
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer

While working for Marvel Comics, Zelenetz was the main author and researcher for The Official Handbook of the Conan Universe,[1] a guide to the Hyborian Age, the fictional setting of the Conan the Barbarian stories.

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

Selected filmography
  • Pi (1998) (Judaica advisor)
  • Darkon (2006) (producer, executive producer;)* Darkonthemovie.com
  • The Funeral Party (2007) (co-producer)
  • Andorra scheduled in (2007) (producer)

Selected comics bibliography

References
  1. The Official Handbook of the Conan Universe, as mentioned in Comicvine
Preceded by
Doug Moench		 Thor writer
1983
(with Bob Hall in early 1983)		 Succeeded by
Walt Simonson


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