I wanted it to keep it at 5 each, Doug barely missed out. Starlin was another I considered.
King I'll judge when his work his over.
Frank Miller, Alan Grant, Grant Morrison, Doug Moench, Denny O'Neil, Paul Dini, and Steve Englehart. All valid contenders. Peter Milligan and Jim Starlin were great as well, but Milligan didn't write enough and Starlin's run was too inconsistent for me. I loved Wein's run, but I wouldn't put it in a "greatest of all time" list.
Those are the greats as far as I'm concerned. Nobody else even comes close in my opinion. Not Snyder, not Dixon, Loeb, Tomasi, Brubaker, or whoever else people like to usually namedrop. And it sure as hell isn't King, who is not only not even close to finishing his run, but whose run so far has been a complete maelstrom in a constant state of flux between treasure and trash. Also his dialogue and characterization is poor on a far-too-consistent basis. I say that admitting fully-well that he's a great writer and that, for all his faults, his Batman run is not in the least bit boring.