Roger Slifer

Roger Allen Slifer 1954. He had a sister, Connie. where he wrote for a number of comic-book series including The Defenders. He also became a colorist. Eventually, Slifer became a special projects editor at Marvel, overseeing comics magazines published by Marvel's parent company such as The Rampaging Hulk. During this time, Slifer worked on the Marvel Classics Comics line, in addition to film adaptations.

In 1979, Slifer (with the financial assistance of David Anthony Kraft), under the publishing imprint Excalibur Enterprises , published Collector's Classics #1: Manhunter: The Complete Saga, which reprinted the Archie Goodwin/Walt Simonson run of Manhunter backup stories from DC Comics' Detective Comics #437–443.

Slifer moved to DC Comics in February 1981, ostensibly as the company's first sales manager to comic book specialty stores. He continued writing sporadically, most notably on Omega Men, where he co-created the extraterrestrial alien mercenary anti-hero Lobo with artist Keith Giffen. Slifer served as an editor at DC from 1984 to 1985 and oversaw the Green Lantern/Green Arrow reprint series, New Talent Showcase, and World's Finest Comics. Slifer had been involved in the creators' rights issue since the late 1970s.

Animation After leaving DC, Slifer found work with Sunbow Entertainment, an animation production company with ties to Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions. Slifer eventually became a supervising producer, story editor, and writer for the animated television program Jem and the Holograms. He produced and was story editor on other animated series including G.I. Joe Extreme, My Little Pony 'n Friends, Transformers, Street Fighter, Conan the Adventurer, and Bucky O'Hare. and place him in an induced coma at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The nonprofit assistance organization The Hero Initiative helped raise money to assist in Slifer's legal case and medical care.

Slifer's sister Connie Carlton took over his care, and in late July 2012, Slifer was moved from UCLA's Ronald Reagan Neuroscience/Trauma Intensive Care Unit to Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. At that point, he was still comatose. Slifer's condition improved at Barlow, and he emerged from his coma. In late September 2012, he was transferred to the sub-acute care facility Goldstar Rehabilitation Services, in Santa Monica.

As of late February 2013, Slifer was awaiting surgery to replace the portion of his skull removed immediately after the crash. Carlton had arranged to transport Slifer to Indiana for further rehabilitation. He died on March 30, 2015.

Tributes Slifer had three fictional characters named at least in part after him: John Byrne's robot character Rog-2000 was named as such by Bob Layton in 1974, who was riffing on the amount of "Rogers" – specifically Slifer and Roger Stern – who contributed to the Contemporary Pictorial Literature fanzine. The true identity of Ghost Rider villain Inferno, created in 1974 by Tony Isabella and Jim Mooney, is that of a demon named "Slifer, Fear-Monger". Isabella had met Slifer through a mutual friend. An Egyptian God card in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, originally named , was renamed "Slifer the Sky Dragon" after Slifer by 4Kids Entertainment employee Sam Murakami.