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LEVITZ's Milestones as DC COMICS' President, Publisher, Writer - 0 views

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  • The changes in how comics were perceived, how comic book people were able to work in the movie industry while they were still comic book people became a wonderful shift in that period. There were people in television too. Suddenly, a comic book credit was a good thing to have on your resume, as opposed to a lead weight, for a creative person.
  • And they came back with, really, a very different approach to how to make it work - a team writing approach from Dan's experience in television, which was not at all a way that comics were being produced in those years, and a set of creative ideas on how they would execute. All of that was theirs.
  • The things that I would put on my corporate tombstone, if you will, would be devising the credit and business terms we used for the direct market, which significantly invested in the growth of the comic shops and the direct distribution system; my role in helping devise the first standard royalty plan for the business; my role in developing the graphic novel format in this country - those are some of the things that are more singly mine.
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  • proud of Milestone.
  • 'm proud of my role in launching and developing Vertigo
  • By the time I was president, we had a staff of about 300 people, and you're not going to have 300 people without having some personality issues and some imperfections.
  • took the company that was the oldest company in the business (and in those days the most corporately owned company in the business) and for much of a 25-year-or-so period, it was inarguably the most creative company in the business and the industry leader in moving the field forward.
  • The success of the movies affected some of the material that was in the comics, certainly, just as the movies were affected by the material that was in the comics.
  • mean, my role is not even homeopathic, it's so small, but it was great fun. Movies are a director's form, not a licensed source form.
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