Alan Hebden

Comics writer Alan Hebden was born on May 5th 1950, in Bristol, and is not yet dead. Comics were in his DNA: his father Eric was a comics writer, and was also in the army, which may explain Hebden junior's penchant for action-packed adventure stories full of derring-do. His career started with scripts for Commando, Victor and Hornet. For Battle Picture Weekly he wrote Rat Pack and Major Eazy (which he co-created).

Hebden's first work for 2000 AD was one of Tharg's Future Shocks in prog 27. He also wrote the M.A.C.H. One stories M.A.C.H. Woman and Death Ray; the Mean Team story Return of the Mean Team; and enough Future Shocks to fill a small library. Several series were created by him: Death Planet; Meltdown Man (with Massimo Belardinelli — it ran for 50 episodes); The Amazing Maze Dumoir (with Ian Gibson); and PSI-Testers.

Alan Hebden also wrote for Eagle (for which he created The Tower King, The Fifth Horseman and The Amstor Computer); Star-Lord (for which he created Holocaust and Mind Wars); and Tornado. In short, this entry would be a lot briefer if one were to list the things he hasn't done. Perhaps there is an anti-wiki somewhere in a parallel universe that does.