![]() ![]() He graduated in 1972.Ĭlaremont's career began in 1969, as a college undergraduate, when he was hired as a gofer/editorial assistant at Marvel Comics. His first professional sale was a prose story. Instead, when he began at Bard College, he did so as a political theorist, studying acting and political theory, and writing novels with the hope of becoming a director. Forester.Ĭlaremont initially did not view the comic book industry as the place where he would make his career, as he believed the dwindling readership to be a sign that the industry was dying, and found the material being published to be uninteresting. He read works by science fiction writers such as Robert Heinlein, as well as writers of other genres such as Rudyard Kipling and C. Alienated by the sports-oriented suburbs, his grandmother purchased for him a subscription to Eagle when he was a child, and he grew up reading Dan Dare, finding them more exciting than the Batman and Superman comics of the 1950s and early 1960s. His family moved to the United States when he was three, and he was raised primarily on Long Island. ![]() Claremont is Jewish on his mother's side, and lived in a kibbutz in Israel during his youth. His father was an internist and his mother was a pilot and caterer. ![]()
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