Paul Levitz was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1956, and entered the comics industry in 1971 as editor/publisher of The Comic Reader, the first mass-circulation fanzine devoted to comics news. He won two consecutive annual Comic Art Fan Awards for Best Fanzine. His other fan activities included editing the program books for several of Phil Seuling’s legendary New York Comic Art Conventions. He received Comic-con International’s Inkpot Award in 2002, the prestigious Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award in 2008, and the Comics industry Appreciation Award from ComicsPro (the trade association of comic shop retailers) in 2010. Levitz also serves on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Boom! Studios.
As a public speaker, Levitz has delivered keynote speeches for events as diverse as the Frankfurt Book Fair and Jupiter’s Digital Kids Conference, spoken at institutions from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress to Google’s Mountainview headquarters, done all forms of media from NPR’s On Point to podcasts, and, of course, performed for countless hours as a guest of honor on three continents including Comicon International, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Singapore’s Toy, Game & Comic Convention, and lesser events. On a more scholarly note, he has spoken at events at M.I.T. and Columbia, guest lectured at law and business schools, and currently teaches courses at Columbia, Pace and Manhattanville.
Levitz is primarily known for his work for DC Comics, where he has written most of their classic characters including the Justice Society, Superman in both comics and the newspaper strip, and an acclaimed run on The Legion of Super-Heroes, a series he’s recently returned to write. Readers of The Buyers’ Guide voted his Legion: The Great Darkness Saga one of the 20 best comic stories of the last century, and visitors to the site comicbookresources.com selected the same story as #11 of the Top 100 Comic Book Stories of All Time. DC Comics has issued a new hardcover edition of Legion: The Great Darkness Saga, and a hardover collection of his new stories, Legion: The Choice, both of which made the New York Times’ Graphic Books BestSeller List.
Cumulatively, Levitz has written over 400 stories with sales of over 25 million copies, and translations into over 20 languages. His stories have been compiled in 20 graphic novel editions, and individual stories have appeared in many more. As a DC staffer from 1973, Levitz was an assistant editor, the company’s youngest editor ever, and in a series of business capacities, became Executive Vice President & Publisher in 1989 and then served as President & Publisher from 2002-2009. He continues as a Contributing Editor, but is now concentrating on his writing.
His recent writing projects include WILL EISNER: CHAMPION OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (Abrams ComicArts, 2015) and Taschen’s 75 YEARS OF DC COMICS: THE ART OF MODERN MYTHMAKING, published for holiday, 2010, which won the U.K.’s Eagle Award for Favourite Comics-Related Book, Munich’s Peng Pris and the Eisner Awards for Best Comics-Related Book in the U.S., as well comics including DOCTOR FATE for DC Comics and BROOKLYN BLOOD for Dark Horse Comics.
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