One of Levitz's teachers, Frank McCourt, was impressed enough with Levitz's work that he arranged for Levitz to appear on McCourt's brother Malachy's radio show. Under Levitz's editorship The Comic Reader won two Best Fanzine Comic Art Fan Awards. 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. Along with publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, Levitz was responsible for hiring such writers as Marv Wolfman and Alan Moore, artists such as George Pérez, Keith Giffen, and John Byrne, and editor Karen Berger, who contributed to the 1980s revitalization of the company's line of comic book heroes. The president of DC Comics from 2002 to 2009, he worked for the company for over 35 years in a wide variety of roles. Paul Levitz ( / ˈ l ɛ v ɪ t s/ born October 21, 1956) is an American comic book writer, editor and executive.
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