Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Levitz
Occupation	Comics Artist
Date Of Birth	Oct 21, 1956(1956-10-21)
Age	68
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Libra

Paul Levitz Biography

Paul Levitz is one of the most popular and richest Comics Artist who was born on October 21, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Paul Levitz (/'”l e vI t the s /; born on November 21, 1956) is an American comic book editor, writer and executive. The head of DC Comics from 2002-2009, Levitz has been with the company for more than 35 years and in range of positions. Alongside the publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, Levitz was responsible for the hiring of writers such like Marv Wolfman as well as Alan Moore, artists such as George Perez, Keith Giffen as well as John Byrne, and editor Karen Berger, who contributed to the revival in the 1980s of the comic book characters.

As an author, Levitz is best known for his work on The Legion of Super-Heroes, that he wrote between 1977 and 1981-1989. Levitz created All-New Collectors’ Edition #C55 (1978) A sizeable treasury-sized comic illustrated by Mike Grell, in which long-time Legion member Saturn Girl along with Lightning Lad became married. Levitz along with the artists James Sherman and Joe Staton wrote “Earthwar” a five-issue storyline in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes

241-245 (July-Nov. 1978). He together with Keith Giffen produced “The Great

Darkness Saga” The Great Darkness Saga, one of the most famous Legion stories, appearing in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2, #290-294. The comics scholar Les Daniels observed that “Working with artist Keith Giffen, Levitz completed the transformation of Legion into a science-fiction saga of considerable scope and depth.” On August 14, 1984, the brand new Legion of Super-Heroes series was created with the help of Levitz along with Giffen.

Levitz eventually became an editor, and served as vice president and executive vice president, before assuming the role of president in 2002. In 2006, Levitz returned to writing the Justice Society with issue #82 of JSA, completing that volume before writer Geoff Johns’ relaunch.

On September 9, 2009, it was announced that Levitz would step down as president and publisher of DC Comics to serve as the Contributing Editor and Overall Consultant for the newly formed DC Entertainment, and become the writer of both Adventure Comics vol. 2 and Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 6.

While working as the assistant editor of Joe Orlando in the year 1976, Levitz “fulfilled a lifelong dream” by becoming the editor of Adventure Comics on the eve of his 20th birthday. He was appointed editor in 1978. took over from Julius Schwartz as the editor of the Batman series of comics.

Paul Levitz Net Worth

Paul Levitz is one of the richest Comics Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Levitz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Together with creator Steve Ditko, Levitz co-created the characters Stalker and the Prince Gavyn version of Starman. He also wrote his Justice Society series in All Star Comics in the latter half of the 1970s. He also created the character Earth-2 Huntress with artist Joe Staton. He as well as Staton contributed to an introduction to the JSA with an origin tale that appeared in DC Special #29. Lucien is the Librarian who was later featured by Neil Gaiman in his The Sandman series, was developed by Levitz along with creator Nestor Redondo. Levitz was among the creators of The DC Challenge limited series in 1986.

In the course of his work to write The Comic Reader, Levitz gained a reputation at the DC Comics offices. DC Comics, where in December 1972 the Editor Joe Orlando gave him his first work as a freelancer. He began by writing letters and text pages. Later, he worked as a per-diem assistant editor prior to creating stories. Levitz then went on to study in business studies in New York University but had received no formal training in writing other than an undergraduate journalism course. He quit after three years to pursue working on his career in writing.

Levitz received an Inkpot Award at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2002, the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2008, and the “Dick Giordano Hero Initiative Humanitarian of the Year Award” in September 2013 at the Baltimore Comic-Con. He was inducted into The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2019 at the San Diego Comic-Con.

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Paul Ranked on the list of most popular Comics Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Paul Levitz celebrates birthday on October 21 of every year.