Paul Levitz

Paul Levitz ( born October 21, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American publishing director and comic book writer. Levitz from 2002 to 2009 Head of the publisher DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner Group.

Life and professional career

Paul Levitz was born in 1956 as the son of Hannah and Alfred Levitz. After attending Stuyvesant High School, he joined the University in his hometown of New York University to study. He interrupted his studies eventually prematurely to take a him be transmitted full-time job as a publishing editor at DC Comics, where he served as one of the main collaborators of the publisher from the mid 1970s to 2009: As an editor, vice president and eventually president of DC Levitz is for almost three decades as directors responsible for the fate of some of the most famous cartoon characters ever, so of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, swamp thing or the Green Lantern.

Together with his longtime boss Jenette Kahn and the Managing Editor of DC, Dick Giordano, Levitz was responsible for the overhaul of many series and figures in the stock of DC in the 1980s, and on the instructions of Kahn / Levitz / Giordano of such authors freed artists like John Byrne, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, George Perez, Keith Giffen and Marv Wolfman from their decades-old histories and the new time has been adjusted.

As a publisher, president and vice-president Levitz was also in a controlling way responsible for the coordination and organization of cinematic and tele- visionary adaptation of numerous DC substances by movies and television series, mostly from other subsidiaries of Time Warner such as the Warner Brothers Studios were implemented. For example, the Batman and Superman movies of the 1970s and 1980s, the Batman movies of the 1990s, films like V for Vendetta or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, animated series like Batman: The Animated Series or the youth series Smallville.

As an author Levitz became known for attention for his many years of 1974 and 1989 permanent authorship of the series The Legion of Super-Heroes, a group of young superheroes from the 30th century. Another important series for the Levitz worked was the All- American Comics, for which he wrote the Justice Society and features Lucien the Librarian, with him Joe Staton or Nestor Redondo were asked as a draftsman to the side.

Marriage and Family

Levitz has been married since 1980, has three children and lives in Chappaqua, New York.