“When I was little, I used to have nightmares about Godzilla walking out of the Great South Bay, because we had a fire alarm out where we lived that sounded just like his feet.”

English-born American comic book writer and novelist

Chris Claremont is an English-born American comic book writer and novelist. He is best known for his long run on Uncanny X-Men, which lasted from 1975 to 1991 and became the defining stretch of his career. During that period, he helped shape the modern X-Men by developing strong female characters and bringing more complex literary themes into superhero stories. Under his stewardship, X-Men grew from an underperforming title into one of Marvel’s most popular series, and for a time it was the best-selling comic book in the world.