Skeates graduated from Alfred University with a Bachelor of Arts.

During the early 1970s Skeates was a prolific writer at Warren Publishing, writing 72 stories from 1971 to 1975. Ongoing features he wrote at Warren included "Targos", the original "Pantha", "The Mummy Walks", "Curse of the Werewolf]]", and "And the Mummies Walk", a combination of the two prior mentioned series.

After a period away from the comic book industry, he anonymously wrote the Generic Comic Book in 1984, which got him the job writing Spider-Ham.

Interviews

• Steve Skeates interview (March 15, 2007) at Aquaman Shrine