David Michelinie (/mɪkəˈlaɪni/; born May 6, 1948) is an American comic book writer best known for scripting Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man and Iron Man and the DC Comics feature Superman in Action Comics. Among the characters he created or co-created are Venom, Carnage, Scott Lang / Ant-Man, and War Machine. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Michelinie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.