David Vern Reed

David Vern Reed ( * 1924, † 1989), actually David Levine ( pseudonyms David Vern, Alexander Blade, Craig Ellis, Clyde Woodruff and Peter Horn ) was an American comic book writer.

Life and work

Reed was born in 1924 when David Levine. After college attendance, participation in the Second World War, and smaller writing jobs Levine began in the 1950s to help of his friend Julius Schwartz, who worked as an editor at the publishing house DC Comics to work as a cartoonist. Under the stage name of David Vern Reed, as well as rare among a number of other pseudonyms, he wrote in the 1950s and again in the 1970s, numerous issues of the series Batman, Detective Comics, World's Finest Comics and Superman. Characteristic of Reeds comic stories was there that he usually gave them either a dedicated science fiction Touch or an obvious absurd or selbsparodistische note ( he held in one of his Batman stories an "underworld Olympics" in which criminals of all continents against each other competed ). At Reed's lasting contributions to the Batman material include the villain Deadshot (Batman # 59) and Batman's flight vehicle, the Bat -Plane.

Away from his work as a comic book writer Reed was as a writer for various magazines - so for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Collier's, Argosy and Mademoiselle - and for Pulpmagazine - such as Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures Astoundign Science Fiction - worked.

In addition, he published several novels such as Murder in Space. A Complete Science - Fiction Novel.

Works

Novels:

• The Thing did Made Love, S. L., 1944.
• The Whispering Gorilla. A Novel, Manchester 1950.
• Murder in Space. A Complete Science - Fiction Novel, New York, 1954. ( With Ed Emshwiller )

• Comic author
• Americans
• Born in 1924
• Died in 1989
• Man