Steve Englehart

Steve Englehart is an American writer. Englehart is best known for his eight-issue run on Detective Comics with penciler Marshall Rogers, starting with issue #469 in 1977. Most notable among these stories is The Laughing Fish/The Sign of the Joker! which was a strong influence on the first Warner Batman movie as well being adapted in a episode of the same name of the animated series that followed.

the so called 'Dark Detective' trilogy. The third installment remains unpublished for reasons unknown.

Night of the Stalker!
In 1974 Neal Adams came up with an idea for a Batman story in which there would be no dialogue. The story became Night of the Stalker!, plotted and drawn by Sal Amendola and Englehart was asked to add dialogue to the story. Realizing this was a mistake, editor Steve Englehart