Paul Kupperberg

Paul Kupperberg (born June 14, 1955) is an American writer and comics editor. He is currently a writer and executive editor at Charlton Neo Comics and Pix-C Webcomics, and a contributing author with Crazy 8 Press. Formerly, he was an editor for DC Comics and executive editor of Weekly World News, as well as a writer of novels, comic books, and newspaper strips.

Career

Paul Kupperberg entered the comics field from comics fandom. He and Paul Levitz produced the comics fanzine ''The Comic Reader'' between 1971 and 1973, and ''Etcetera'' between 1972–1973.

Comics

Kupperberg has written an estimated 1,000 comic book stories, primarily at DC, for the Julius Schwartz-edited ''Superman'', ''Action Comics'', ''Supergirl'', and ''Superboy'' titles, as well as the new ''Doom Patrol'', ''Vigilante'', ''Green Lantern'', ''The Brave and the Bold'', ''Showcase'', ''The Superman Family'', ''House of Mystery'', ''Weird War Tales'', ''Justice League of America'', ''Ghosts'', ''Star Trek'', ''Aquaman'', ''Adventure Comics'', ''The Savage Sword of Conan'', and many others. He and artist Jan Duursema co-created the Arion character in '' The Warlord'' #55 (March 1982) and the ''Arion, Lord of Atlantis'' series was launched in November 1982. That same month saw the debut of ''The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl'' by Kupperberg and Carmine Infantino. Kupperberg scripted the first appearance of Keith Giffen's Ambush Bug character in ''DC Comics Presents'' #52 (Dec. 1982) A revival of the ''Doom Patrol'' series by Kupperberg and Steve Lightle began in October 1987 and Kupperberg and Steve Erwin launched the '' Checkmate!'' series six months later. Kupperberg created the ''Takion'' series as well. He wrote the syndicated ''The World's Greatest Superheroes'' newspaper comic strip with José Delbo from 1981–1985 and the ''Tom and Jerry'' newspaper strip from 1990–1991.

Kupperberg wrote the first comic book miniseries, '' World of Krypton'' in 1979 and co-wrote ''Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes'' the following year with E. Nelson Bridwell. Kupperberg was one of the contributors to the ''DC Challenge'' limited series in 1986 and his other mini-series include ''The Phantom Stranger'' (with Mike Mignola and P. Craig Russell), ''Power Girl'', ''Peacemaker'', '' Super Powers'' (with Jack Kirby), and the first comic book adaptation of ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe''. He has also written movie parodies and humor for Marvel's ''Crazy Magazine'' (1977–1983), the series "Trash" for Britain's '' 2000 AD'', with artist Nigel Dobbyn, and ''The Online Multipath Adventures of Superman'' web-animation (1998). Most of his current comic book writing appears in the DC-published Cartoon Network licensed comics on such characters as Johnny Bravo, I.M. Weasel, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and Scooby-Doo.

Prose

Kupperberg's prose credits include ''The Atlas to the DC Universe'' (Mayfair Games, 1992), ''The Doom Patrol Sourcebook'' (Mayfair Games, 1993), and the Spider-Man novels ''Crime Campaign'' and ''Murdermoon'' (both Pocket Books, 1979). He has had short stories published in the anthologies ''The Further Adventures of Batman Featuring Catwoman'' (Bantam Books, 1993), ''Fear Itself'' (Warner Books, 1995), ''Superheroes'' (Ace Books, 1995, edited by John Varley) and ''Oceans of Magic'' ( DAW Books, 2001). His adult novel, ''JSA: Ragnarok'', was scheduled to be published in 2006 but was delayed due to the bankruptcy of its publisher, iBooks. It was published in November 2020 by Crazy 8 Press.

His other published work includes the young adult novel ''Wishbone Mysteries: The Sirian Conspiracy'' (co-written with Michael Jan Friedman, Big Red Chair Books, 1999), as well as color and activity books featuring ''Firehouse Tales''. In 2005, Kupperberg began writing for the weekly satiric and humor tabloid, ''Weekly World News''.

Magazine work

From 1981–1982 Kupperberg was assistant editor on '' Video Action Magazine'', one of the first newsstand magazines to focus on the then burgeoning home video market. He also wrote numerous articles for the magazine. Among his other non-fiction work are many introductions and historic prefaces to various DC collected editions and Archives ('The Essential Showcase', ''The Flash Archives Volume 1'', ''Action Comics Archives Volume 2'', etc.), as well as essays for the anthology ''You Did What?: Mad Plans And Great Historical Disasters'' (Harper Paperbacks, 2004). Since 2003, Kupperberg has written numerous non-fiction books for young adults, including: ''Spy Satellites'', ''The Tragedy Of The Titanic'', ''Astronaut Biographies: John Glenn'' (a Society Of School Librarians International Honor Book, 2004), ''Critical Perspectives On The Great Depression'', ''The Nature Of Disease'', ''Edwin Hubble And The Big Bang'', ''The History Of The New York Colony'', ''Rodeo Clowns'', ''Origins Of The Action Heroes: Spider-Man'', ''Cutting Edge Careers In Robotics'', and ''In The News: Hurricanes'' for Rosen Publishing.

DC Editorial

From 1991–2006, Kupperberg was on staff at DC Comics, editing such titles as ''The Flash'', ''Wonder Woman'', Jack Kirby's '' Fourth World'', ''Impulse'', ''Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt'' and others. He also edited in DC's Licensed Publishing department, overseeing such titles as ''MADvertising: A MAD Look at 50 Years of MADison Avenue'' by David Shayne, Marv Wolfman's novelization of his landmark comics series ''Crisis on Infinite Earths'', a trilogy of ''Green Lantern'' novels by Christopher Priest, Mike Baron and Mike Ahn (both novel and trilogy were published by iBooks

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