Steve Skeates (born 1943) is an American comic book writer for industry leaders DC Comics and Marvel Comics, among others, on characters including the Spectre, Hawk and Dove, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, Aquaman, and Namor the Sub-Mariner.
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.