Viper Comics announced that it has hired Howard Mackie as a Contributing Editor.  Mackie brings with him over twenty years of experience at Marvel Comics and will be “working with the executive team on ways to maximize Viper’s presence in the entertainment industry, with creative teams in an editorial capacity and even writing the odd book here and there.”

Howard Mackie is a comic book writer and editor probably best known for writing the 1990 revival of Ghost Rider and contributing to the Spider-Man Clone Saga.  In the fall of 2009 Mackie teamed with Tom DeFalco to write Spider-Man: Clone Saga, a six issue miniseries which retold the story the way Mackie had originally intended.