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Living the Young Creator's life in New York, Steve Englehart got to be drinking buddies with an editorial assistant at Marvel Comics. One night the e.a. called to say he was going on vacation for six weeks; would Steve like to fill in for him on staff? Steve would, and once in the door at what was then a very small operation, he got a shot at writing a comic. It was a failing series called Captain America — but six months later it had become Marvel's leading seller, and Steve had all the work he could handle. He became Marvel's lead writer, adding The Hulk, The Avengers, Thor, Dr. Strange, and half a dozen other series. Then he was hired away by DC Comics to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the “definitive” version) that later became Warners' first Batman film. He was contracted to write the treatments that effected the transition of his series to the screen, and to act as a consultant on the film, which led to the Batman series and the rise of superhero films in general. Coming full circle, his latest Batman series, Dark Detective, was one of the bases for the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight.

After Batman he moved to California, got married, traveled around Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man) and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). But he still liked the pace and immediacy of comics, so he introduced Coyote, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series in fan polls. Other projects (Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, Fantastic Four), led to the San Diego Comic-Con calling him “comics' most successful writer, having had more hits with more characters at more companies than anyone else in comics history.” Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, and Brøderbund. And as his kids grew, he naturally told them stories, which led to a run of mid-grade books for Avon, including the DNAgers series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school programs on the invention of the aeroplane. Countdown to Flight is now part of many states' science curriculum.

In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse. Two of his contributions were The Night Man and The Strangers, and soon they were starring in episodes of DIC's animated series Ultraforce,  even though they weren't even in that group. The Saban Silver Surfer series, based on his Marvel stories, followed. So Steve was asked to write animation for Street Fighter, G.I. Joe, and Captain America while Glen Larson optioned the live-action version of Night Man. Steve's first script for that series (his first for live-action) was accepted with no rewrites and became the most popular episode of the season, appearing on four separate weeks (the average being two). Two more scripts followed in the second season.

Comics, games, and a free Christmas serial on his website called Rustle's Christmas Adventure got him to this point, which is mostly concerned with making the Max August novels as successful as everything that's gone before.