20 Facts About Paul Levitz

Paul Levitz is an American comic book writer, editor and executive.

Paul Levitz was born and raised in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York.

Paul Levitz's father was a clerk for an industrial hardware store, and his mother was a bookkeeper.

Paul Levitz was an avid reader as a child, and read the works of writers including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Ed McBain.

Paul Levitz read comics, citing the first he could remember buying off of a newsstand being the first team-up between the Justice League and the Justice Society.

Paul Levitz was notably a fan of Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Paul Levitz attended Stuyvesant High School, during which time he revived the defunct comic news fanzine, The Comic Reader, which according to Levitz, was the first regularly published comics industry news fanzine.

Paul Levitz later studied business at New York University but had taken no formal education in writing, other than a journalism course.

Paul Levitz dropped out after three years in order to concentrate on his writing career.

Paul Levitz wrote the Justice Society series in All Star Comics during the late 1970s and co-created the Earth-2 Huntress with artist Joe Staton.

Paul Levitz was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986.

Paul Levitz eventually became an editor, and served as vice president and executive vice president, before assuming the role of president and publisher in 2002.

Paul Levitz consciously chose the combined title instead of "editor-in-chief", citing the negative results of the title he'd seen during Jim Shooter's tenure at Marvel and his desire to stay connected to the publishing arm of DC which he had help create.

Paul Levitz wrote a new five-page story titled "The Game", which was drawn by Neal Adams, for the Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman hardcover collection.

In 2004, Paul Levitz joined the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization founded in 1986 chartered to protect the First Amendment rights of the comics community.

From January to May 2023, the 5-issue miniseries Avengers: War Across Time, which Paul Levitz wrote, was published.

Paul Levitz received an Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con in 2002, the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at 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.

Paul Levitz was inducted into The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con.

Paul Levitz has three children: Nicole, a public health executive; Philip, a lawyer; and Garret, who works in the entertainment industry.

Paul Levitz has named the run of All-Star Comics featuring the Justice Society of America as his favorite.