NEW AND UPCOMING

COLLECTION OF WORK

COMICS

Principal series scripted:

AQUAMAN
BROOKLYN BLOOD
DOCTOR FATE
DRAGONSWORD
HUNTRESS
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
LEGION ACADEMY
LOIS LANE
JUSTICE SOCIETY
KARATE KID
PHANTOM STRANGER
POWER GIRL
STALKER
STARMAN
SUPERMAN
SUPERMAN/BATMAN
TEEN TITANS
THE SPIRIT
WONDER WOMAN
WORLDS’ FINEST

Editor for DC Comics (1976-1981):

ADVENTURE COMICS #449-461
AQUAMAN #57-63
ARMY AT WAR #1
BATMAN #310-337
BEST OF DC DIGEST #2, 9
BRAVE & BOLD #139-176, SPECIAL 1978
CLAW #10
DC SPECIAL #27, 28
DC SPECIAL DIGEST #13
DC SUPER-STARS #12-15, 17-18
DETECTIVE COMICS #482-504
FIVE STAR SUPER HERO SPECTACULAR 1977
FLASH DIGEST
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #255-275
HOUSE OF SECRETS #148-154
KOBRA #5-7
LIMITED COLLECTORS’ EDITION #C-34, 51, 52, 59
MEN OF WAR #1-26
METAL MEN #49-56
NEW GODS #12-19
SCERETS OF HAUNTED HOUSE #6-14, SPECIAL 1978
SGT. ROCK DIGEST
SHOWCASE #94-96
SUPER-TEAM FAMILY #11-15
UNKNOWN SOLDIER #206-238
UNTOLD LEGEND OF THE BATMAN #1-3
WEIRD WAR TALES #53-92

Other editing:

Stuyvesant High School: The First 100 Years by Susan E. Meyer (Campaign for Stuyvesant, 2004)

9-11: The World’s Finest Comic Book Writers and Artists Tell Stories to Remember, Vol. Two (DC, 2002)

BOOKS

Non-fiction:

75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth-Making (Taschen, 2010)
Diamond Award (2010, Comic Related Book), Eagle Award (2011, Favourite Comics-Related Book), Peng Preis/Pow Award, Munich Comics Festival (2011, secondary literature), Eisner Award (2011, Best Comics-Related Book), nominated Harvey Award (2011, Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation).

The Golden Age of DC Comics
(Taschen, 2013)

The Silver Age of DC Comics
(Taschen, 2013) NY Times Graphic Books bestseller

The Bronze Age of DC Comics
(Taschen, 2015)

Will Eisner: The Champion of the Graphic Novel
(Abrams, 2015)

Textbook:

The Power of Comics (2nd edition) co-author with Matthew Smith and Randy Duncan (Bloomsbury, 2015). The first college level textbook on the subject, revised edition.

Graphic story collections:

UNFINISHED BUSINESS (2021)
AQUAMAN: DEATH OF A PRINCE DELUXE EDITION (2020)
ALL STAR COMICS: ONLY LEGENDS LIVE FOREVER (2019)
BROOKLYN BLOOD (2018)
SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Vol. 2 (2018)
SUPERBOY & THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES Vol. 1 (2017)
DOCTOR FATE: FATEFUL THREADS (2017)
DOCTOR FATE: PRISONERS OF THE PAST (2016)
DOCTOR FATE: THE BLOOD PRICE (2016)
WORLDS’ FINEST: THE SECRET HISTORY OF SUPERMAN AND BATMAN (2015)
WORLDS’ FINEST: HOMEWARD BOUND (2015)
WORLDS’ FINEST: CONTROL ISSUES (2014)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE FATAL FIVE (2014)
WORLDS’ FINEST: HUNT AND BE HUNTED (2013)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE DOMINATORS (2013)
WORLDS’ FINEST: THE LOST DAUGHTERS OF EARTH-2 (DC, 2013) NY Times Graphic Books Bestseller
THE HUNTRESS: CROSSBOW AT THE CROSSROADS (DC, 2012)
LEGION: SECRET ORIGIN (DC, 2012)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: HOSTILE WORLD (DC, 2012)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: WHEN EVIL CALLS (DC, 2012)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE CURSE (DC, 2011)
SHOWCASE PRESENTS ALL-STAR COMICS (DC, 2011)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: CONSEQUENCES (DC, 2011)
SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE EARLY YEARS (DC, 2011)
SUPERMAN/BATMAN: WORSHIP (DC, 2011)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE CHOICE (DC, 2011) NY Times Graphic Books Bestseller
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE GREAT DARKNESS SAGA DELUXE EDITION (DC, 2010) NY Times Graphic Books Bestseller
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE (DC, 2008)
JSA: GHOST STORIES (DC, 2007)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: AN EYE FOR AN EYE (DC, 2007)
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Volume Two (DC, 2007)
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Volume One (DC, 2006)
THE HUNTRESS: Darknight Daughter (DC, 2006), reissued as THE HUNTRESS: ORIGINS (DC, 2020)
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE GREAT DARKNESS SAGA (DC, 1989)

(Individual or multiple stories included in over 20 other volumes.)

OTHER WRITING

“Man, Myth and Cultural Icon,” The Many Lives of Batman, edited by William Uricchio, (British Film Institute, forthcoming)

“Inside the Editorial Process: MAD Veterans Jaffe and Meglin Look at Their Editors” Interviews conducted by Paul Levitz (Studies In American Humor, New Series 3, No. 20; also in Seeing MAD, Yarrow and Lee, editors, University of Missouri, 2020)

“Why Supervillains?,” What is a Supervillain?, Rosenberg and Coogan, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2013)

“A Call For Higher Criticism” (The Comics Journal, 1979), cited as a precedential argument for a theory of comic studies; cited as a model for a theory of transmedia studies by Geoffrey Long (C3 Research Memos and White Paper Series, M.I.T., 2010)

Superman, newspaper strip, 1980-1981

Over a thousand text pieces, letter columns, introductions and other casuals for DC Comics, its licensees, and other publications about comics