He would write whole paragraphs about what people were wearing.

According to former Marvel editor-in-chief Bob Harras, 'He lived it and breathed it. This approach drew immediate positive reaction. Claremont approached the job as a method actor, developing the characters by examining their motives, desires and individual personalities.

Marvel's editor-in-chief at the time, Len Wein, who recognized Claremont's enthusiasm for the new X-Men that Wein and Dave Cockrum had created in 1975, hired Claremont, a relatively young writer, to take over the series as of issue #94 (May 1975), reasoning that doing so would not draw opposition from other writers, given the book's poor standing. One of the first new characters created by Claremont was Madrox the Multiple Man in Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4 (Feb. Though his acting career did not yield great success, he functioned well at Marvel, where he obtained a full-time position. The Claremont/Byrne team continued to work together when the character received its own self-titled series in November 1975 which lasted 15 issues. He was joined two issues later by artist John Byrne. As an entry into regular comics writing, Claremont was given the fledgling feature 'Iron Fist' in Marvel Premiere as of issue #23 (Aug. His first professional scripting assignment was Daredevil #102 (Aug. He graduated in 1972.Ĭlaremont's career began in 1969, as a college undergraduate, when he was hired as a gofer/editorial assistant at Marvel Comics. His first professional sale was a prose story. Instead, when he began at Bard College, he did so as a political theorist, studying acting and political theory, and writing novels with the hope of becoming a director. Forester.Ĭlaremont initially did not view the comic book industry as the place where he would make his career, as he believed the dwindling readership to be a sign that the industry was dying, and found the material being published to be uninteresting. He read works by science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, as well as writers of other genres such as Rudyard Kipling and C. Alienated by the sports-oriented suburbs, his grandmother purchased for him a subscription to Eagle when he was a child, and he grew up reading Dan Dare, finding them more exciting than the Batman and Superman comics of the 1950s and early 1960s.

His family moved to the United States when he was three, and he was raised primarily on Long Island. Claremont is Jewish on his mother's side, and lived in a kibbutz in Israel during his youth. His father was an internist and his mother was a pilot and caterer.

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