Happy birthday Jack C. Harris! Harris is best known as a writer and editor for DC Comics during the Bronze Age. He was hired by DC Comics and became the assistant to editor Murray Boltinoff before being promoted to the post of editor himself. His first published comics story was Political Rally Panic in Isis #3. Harris wrote several issues of Kamandi, an assignment he considered a personal favorite. As writer of the Wonder Woman comic book, he returned the series to a contemporary setting to reflect the timeframe change made from the World War II era to the present day in the television series. Harris edited the first appearances of several new characters in their own eponymous series including Black Lightning, Shade, the Changing Man, and Firestorm. Harris edited the Madame Xanadu one-shot in 1981, which was DCs first attempt at marketing comics specifically to the direct market of fans and collectors.Among the new talent Harris helped to enter the comics industry was the writing team of Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn and artists Trevor Von Eeden, John Workman and Bob Smith. On the advice of artist Joe Staton, Harris gave British artist Brian Bolland his first assignment for a U.S. comics publisher, the cover for Green Lantern #127.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:06:30 +0000
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