The writer and artist concocted a fake letter from a fictitious minister praising the story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter, and dropped the retraction order. Englehart's "Doctor Strange" #14 featured a crossover story with "The Tomb of Dracula" #44, another series which was being drawn by Gene Colan at the time. In Englehart's final story for the series, he sent Dr. Strange back in time to meet Benjamin Franklin. Describing that time, Englehart said in 1998, Englehart and artist Starlin co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, though they only worked on the early issues of the series. Englehart reconciled the existence of Captain America and sidekick Bucky in Marvel's 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics, an anomaly that had been ignored since Captain America's 1964 reintroduction to Marvel after having been in suspended animation since 1945. Englehart's newly retconned history stated that the 1950s Captain America and 1950s Bucky had been different characters. This was followed by an extended storyline of Steve Rogers becoming so profoundly disillusioned with the United States that he temporarily abandoned his Captain America identity to become Nomad until he decided to refocus his purpose as the defender of America's ideals, not necessarily its government. The Englehart/Sal Buscema run on the "Captain America" title saw the series become one of Marvel's top-sellers. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart's work on "Captain America", "The Avengers", and "Doctor Strange" fourth, eighth, and ninth, respectively, on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". Following Gerry Conway's elevation to editor-in-chief in March 1976, Englehart had a falling-out with Marvel. He recalled in 2010 that Conway Conway, who left the editorial post after only "about a month-and-a-half," recalled circumstances differently:  Englehart, in fact, planned to quit comics altogether and pursue novels, but DC Comics publisher Jenette Kahn persuaded him to come to DC. His only previous credited work for the company had been scripting the Batman story "Night of the Stalker!" in "Detective Comics" #439 (Feb–March 1974). "I said, 'Okay I'll fix "Justice League [of America]" for you, but I'm only going to do this for a year." To that end, he wrote "Justice League of America" #139–146 and 149–150, with artist Dick Dillin, and additionally wrote an eight-issue arc of Batman stories in "Detective Comics" #469–476, with pencilers Walt Simonson and Marshall Rogers.