12 Facts About Jack Liebowitz

Jacob S Liebowitz was an American accountant and publisher.

Jack Liebowitz is known primarily for being the co-owner with Harry Donenfeld of National Periodical Publications.

Jack Liebowitz was born Yacov Lebovitz in Proskuriv, present-day Khmelnytsky, Ukraine in October 1900, to a Jewish family.

Jack Liebowitz set himself up as an accountant based in Manhattan's Union Square area, with one client, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union ; his father had been a steward for that union since the early 1910s.

Toward the end of the decade, Jack Liebowitz had taken on more clients and begun studying the stock market.

In 1929, Julius Jack Liebowitz approached Harry Donenfeld, whom he had befriended through ILGWU ties, and sought work for his son.

When Jack Liebowitz first worked for Donenfeld, the latter's empire was little more than a publishing house for "sex pulp" and art nudie magazines distributed by Eastern News, a company run by Charles Dreyfus and Paul Sampliner.

Jack Liebowitz ensured bills were paid on time and began to build a trust with clients that Donenfeld's enterprises had never experienced.

DC Comics went public in 1961, and became officially known as National Periodical Publications with Jack Liebowitz remaining president of what was by then America's foremost comics publisher.

Jack Liebowitz continued to be an active member of the Warner Communications board, visiting his office daily even into his 91st year, finally relinquishing his place in 1991.

Jack Liebowitz, who had pushed for a moral code in his own publications earlier in his career, was made vice-president of the organization under John Goldwater, and unsurprisingly was least affected by the new code, as his own comics were in line with the code before it was introduced.

Jack Liebowitz died December 11,2000, and is buried in Mount Ararat Cemetery in East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York.