Tales of Zorro, edited by Richard Dean Starr and published by Moonstone Books in 2008. Comic books Since the 1990s Mangels has written comic book stories and text pieces for several major publishers. His work for DC Comics includes writing for Justice League Quarterly, Who's Who in the DC Universe, and Wonder Woman '77. His Marvel Comics work includes issues of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Unlimited, Mad Dog, Adventures of the X-Men, and Adventures of Spider-Man. For Dark Horse he wrote Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction, and he scripted a story in Wildstorm's Star Trek Special. Comics published by Image include the Bloodwulf mini-series, Badrock & Company, and Troll Halloween Special. For Innovation he scripted several tie-ins to the Child's Play, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Quantum Leap franchises. For WaRP he contributed scripts for Elfquest: Blood of Ten Chiefs. His Topps writing includes the comics adaptation of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday. He scripted Platinum Studio' graphic novel Super Larry, World's Toughest Man. For Microsoft he wrote the world's first interactive online comic series, RE-Man. Mangels served as editor of the anthology Gay Comix from 1991 to 1998, for issues #14-25 (plus one "special"). He also contributed stories, including creating an early openly gay superhero named Pride. Under his editorship, the series changed its name to "Gay Comics" (symbolically becoming a part of the mainstream instead of underground comix scene), published multiple issues per year, raised page and cover payment rates and instituted a reprint fee, enforced a gender-parity of 50% male and 50% female creators rule, and even occasionally brought in popular heterosexual creators to bump sales, such as George Pérez and Sam Kieth. A story that Mangels' commissioned for Gay Comics #19 from Alison Bechdel would later be expanded upon for Bechdel's Fun Home graphic novel, for which Bechdel thanked him during her keynote speech at the 2016 "Queers and Comics" symposium at City University of New York. Mangels has written non-fiction articles and reviews – often about the intersection of comics and Hollywood – for magazines such as Amazing Heroes, Alter Ego/FCA, Anime Invasion, Cinescape, Comics Buyer's Guide, Comics Interview, Comics Scene, Overstreet's FAN Magazine, Hero Illustrated, Marvel Age, Marvel Vision, Sci-Fi Invasion, Sci-Fi Universe, SFX, Sketch, Starlog, Star Wars Galaxy Magazine, Star Wars Galaxy Collector, Toons, Wild Cartoon Kingdom, Wizard, and others. He has written for international magazines such