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. 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. Cumulatively, Levitz has written
over 300 stories with sales of over 25 million copies, and
translations into over 20 languages.
The career of British-born artist Alan Davis took off like a rocket
after his humble beginnings at Marvel UK. Continuing the
collaboration that saw Captain Britain become an enduring critical
and fan-favorite, the two co-created D.R. and Quinch. Davis broke
into U.S. comics with runs on Batman and the Outsiders and
Detective Comics. Hired by Marvel U.S. in 1986, Davis launched
Excalibur with Chris Claremont, and the book quickly became one of
Marvel mutantdom's most unique and humorous titles. When Davis took
over as writer, he continued many plot threads from his Captain
Britain run. Davis also created the super-hero family ClanDestine,
and wrote and drew the DC miniseries JLA- The Nail. After a lengthy
arc writing and drawing X-Men, Davis went on to work on the
miniseries Killraven, Fantastic Four- The End and a ClanDestine
revival. He has also illustrated writer Brian Michael Bendis'
Avengers Prime and contributed to the status-quo-changing X-Men-
Schism, later helping relaunch Wolverine with writer Paul Cornell.
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