Paul Kupperberg


Paul Kupperberg is an American writer and comics editor. He is currently a writer and executive editor at Charlton Neo Comics and Pix-C Webcomics, and a contributing author with Crazy 8 Press. Formerly, he was an editor for DC Comics and executive editor of Weekly World News, as well as a writer of novels, comic books, and newspaper strips.
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Early life

Paul Kupperberg was born in Brooklyn, New York City.

Career

Kupperberg entered the comics field from comics fandom. He and Paul Levitz produced the comics fanzine The Comic Reader between 1971 and 1973, and Etcetera between 1972–1973.

Comics

Kupperberg has written an estimated 1,000 comic book stories, primarily at DC, for the Julius Schwartz-edited Superman, Action Comics, Supergirl, and Superboy titles, as well as the new Doom Patrol, Vigilante, Green Lantern, The Brave and the Bold, Showcase, Superman Family, House of Mystery, Weird War Tales, Justice League of America, Ghosts, Star Trek, Aquaman, Adventure Comics, The Savage Sword of Conan, and many others. He and artist Jan Duursema co-created the Arion character in The Warlord #55 and the Arion, Lord of Atlantis series was launched in November 1982. That same month saw the debut of The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl by Kupperberg and Carmine Infantino. Kupperberg scripted the first appearance of Keith Giffen's Ambush Bug character in DC Comics Presents #52 A revival of the Doom Patrol series by Kupperberg and Steve Lightle began in October 1987 and Kupperberg and Steve Erwin launched the Checkmate! series six months later. Kupperberg created the Takion series as well. He wrote the syndicated The World's Greatest Superheroes newspaper comic strip with JosΓ© Delbo from 1981–1985 and the Tom and Jerry newspaper strip from 1990–1991.
Kupperberg wrote the first comic book miniseries, World of Krypton in 1979 and co-wrote Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes the following year with E. Nelson Bridwell. Kupperberg was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986 and his other mini-series include The Phantom Stranger, Power Girl, Peacemaker, Super Powers, and the first comic book adaptation of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He has also written movie parodies and humor for Marvel's Crazy Magazine, the series "Trash" for Britain's 2000 AD, with artist Nigel Dobbyn, and The Online Multipath Adventures of Superman web-animation. Most of his current comic book writing appears in the DC-published Cartoon Network licensed comics on such characters as Johnny Bravo, I.M. Weasel, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and Scooby-Doo.

Prose

Kupperberg's prose credits include The Atlas to the DC Universe, The Doom Patrol Sourcebook, and the Spider-Man novels Crime Campaign and Murdermoon. He has had short stories published in the anthologies The Further Adventures of Batman Featuring Catwoman, Fear Itself, Superheroes and Oceans of Magic. His adult novel, JSA: Ragnarok, was scheduled to be published in 2006 but was delayed due to the bankruptcy of its publisher, iBooks. It was published in November 2020 by Crazy 8 Press.
His other published work includes the young adult novel Wishbone Mysteries: The Sirian Conspiracy, as well as color and activity books featuring Firehouse Tales. In 2005, Kupperberg began writing for the weekly satiric and humor tabloid, Weekly World News.

Magazine work

From 1981 to 1982, Kupperberg was assistant editor on Video Action Magazine, one of the first newsstand magazines to focus on the then-burgeoning home video market. He also wrote numerous articles for the magazine. Among his other non-fiction work are many introductions and historic prefaces to various DC collected editions and Archives, as well as essays for the anthology You Did What?: Mad Plans And Great Historical Disasters. Since 2003, Kupperberg has written numerous non-fiction books for young adults, including: Spy Satellites, The Tragedy Of The Titanic, Astronaut Biographies: John Glenn, Critical Perspectives On The Great Depression, The Nature Of Disease, Edwin Hubble And The Big Bang, The History Of The New York Colony, Rodeo Clowns, Origins Of The Action Heroes: Spider-Man, Cutting Edge Careers In Robotics, and In The News: Hurricanes for Rosen Publishing.

DC editing career

From 1991–2006, Kupperberg was on staff at DC Comics, editing such titles as The Flash, Wonder Woman, Jack Kirby's Fourth World, Impulse, Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt and others. He also edited in DC's Licensed Publishing department, overseeing such titles as MADvertising: A MAD Look at 50 Years of MADison Avenue by David Shayne, Marv Wolfman's novelization of his landmark comics series Crisis on Infinite Earths, a trilogy of Green Lantern novels by Christopher Priest, Mike Baron and Mike Ahn, and dozens of MAD reprints, kids storybooks, young adult novels and children's color and activity books based on DC Comics properties.

2006–present

In early 2006, Kupperberg left DC to become senior editor at the Weekly World News. In 2007, he contributed to the Doctor Who short-story collection Short Trips: Destination Prague, and The Avenger Chronicles from Moonstone Books. The Weekly World News ceased publication in August 2007, and in January 2008, Kupperberg became senior editor of WWE KIDS for World Wrestling Entertainment. He is freelancing and consulting for DC Comics, Archie Comics, Moonstone Publishing, Stone Arch Books, Bongo Comics, GIT Corp, and others.
He wrote the Harvey Award and Eisner Award nominated Life with Archie series for Archie Comics which began in August 2010 in the second issue of Life With Archie: The Married Life, in magazine format. The series continues the Michael Uslan/Stan Goldberg best-selling Archie wedding series, two ongoing series each featuring one of Archie's two possible futures, one married to Betty Cooper and another married to Veronica Lodge. The series also featured the controversial gay marriage of Kevin Keller and ended with the 2014 "The Death of Archie" storyline, which made news all over the world. He wrote the young adult novel Kevin, which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award and won the 2014 Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tir-In Writers. He has written Captain Action Classified, children's books based on Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman for Stone Arch Books, and numerous color and activity books based on DreamWorks properties for Dalmatian Press, as well as Mad Libs featuring Archie, DC Superheroes, and Marvel Superheroes.
Kupperberg is currently executive editor of Charlton Neo and the online webcomics site, Pix-C, for which he has created numerous titles and features, including Paul Kupperberg's Secret Romances, Unusual Tales featuring N.E.O., "The Scarry Squad," "Edison Corliss' Industrial Steam and Ironworks," "Digger Graves, Paranormal P.I.," and "Blank."
He is also one of the seven authors behind Crazy 8 Press, a publishing hub and imprint with Robert Greenberger, Michael Jan Friedman, Aaron Rosenberg, Peter David, and others through which he has published his novel The Same Old Story and the short story collection, In My Shorts: Hitler's Bellhop and Other Stories as well as contributing to such Crazy 8 anthologies as ReDeus, co-created with Greenberger and Rosenberg, Pangaea, and Tales of the Crimson Keep.

Personal life

Kupperberg's brother, [Alan Kupperberg, also worked in the comic book field as an artist and writer.

Prose fiction

The Amazing Spider-Man: Crime Campaign The Hulk and Spider-Man: Murdermoon
  • "Creature of Habit," in The Further Adventures of Batman: Featuring Catwoman
  • "Food for the Beast," in Fear Itself
  • "Reflected Glory," in Superheroes Wishbone Mysteries: The Sirian Conspiracy
  • "Walk Upon the Waters," in Oceans of Magic The Powerpuff Girls: Buttercup’s Terrible Temper Tantrums
  • "Sargasso Sector," in Star Trek Corps Of Engineers: Grand Design
  • "Strange Attractor," in Doctor Who, Short Trips: Destination Prague
  • "The Cloud of Doom," in The Avenger Chronicles
  • "Man Bites Dog," in Vampires Jew-Jitsu: The Hebrew Hands Of Fury
  • JSA: Ragnarok Book 1
  • ''Hey, Sophie!''

Non-fiction

  • DC Comics β€” introductions and historic forewords for collected editions of classic comic books, including Action Comics Archive Vol. 2, The Flash Archives Vol. 1, Challengers of The Unknown Archives Vol. 1, Superman: Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?, The Essential Showcase, The Doom Patrol Archives Col. 3, Superman: The World Of Krypton, and Superman: The Bottle City Of Kandor.Spy Satellites The Tragedy of the Titanic You Did What?: Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters Astronaut Biographies: John Glenn Critical Perspectives On The Great Depression The Nature of Disease Edwin Hubble and the Big Bang The History of the New York Colony Rodeo Clowns Origins of the Action Heroes: Spider-Man Cutting Edge Careers in Robotics In the News: Hurricanes Great Historic Disasters: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919
  • ''Building America, Then and Now: The Alaska Highway''

Syndicated newspaper strips

Tom and Jerry – syndicated newspaper strip

Comic books

DC Comics

Action Comics #536, 547, 555, 557–561, 564, 569–570, 580, 598 Action Comics Weekly #610, 613–614, 617, 623, 631–634, 636, 641 Adventure Comics #453–455, 460–463 All-Star Squadron #41, 44 Aquaman #58–60, 62–63 Arak, Son of Thunder #15 Arion the Immortal #1–6 Arion, Lord of Atlantis #1–3, 12–35, Special #1 Atari Force vol. 2 #13, Special #1 Batman #352 Batman: Gotham Knights #29 The Brave and the Bold #163, 175 Cartoon Cartoons #1–2, 4, 9, 19, 22 Cartoon Network Block Party #10, 25, 32, 45, 52 Cartoon Network Starring #2–3, 6–8, 10–11, 13–14, 16–17 Checkmate #1–33 Crusaders #5–7 Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1–13 DC Challenge #7 DC Comics Presents #47, 49, 52, 54, 56, 65, 70, 72, 75, 79–80, 86, 90, 93 DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel #6 DC Special Series #1 DC Super Stars #14 Detective Comics #485, 489, 504, 516, 519 Doom Patrol vol. 2 #1–18, Annual #1 Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad #1 Dragonlance #33–34 The Flash #265–266 Flintstones and the Jetsons #19–20 Funny Stuff Stocking Stuffer #1 Fury of Firestorm #27, 54 Ghosts #95–99, 101–102 Green Lantern #132, 148–149, 151–158, 181, 187 Green Lantern Corps Annual #1–2 Gross Point #6 Gunfire #9 Hawkman vol. 3 #7–8 Heroes Against Hunger #1 House of Mystery #252, 273, 285, 294, 296 Justice League of America #182, 217 Justice League Quarterly #6–7, 9, 13–14, 16–17 Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2 #267 Martian Manhunter Special #1 Masters of the Universe #1–3 Men of War #17–18, 24–25 New Adventures of Superboy #36–50, 52–54 Peacemaker #–4 Phantom Stranger vol. 3 #1–4 Power Girl #1–4 Scooby-Doo #128, 143, 149–150, 153–157, 159 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #14–15 Secret Origins vol. 2 #11, Annual #1 Secrets of Haunted House #30, 46 Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #1–3 Showcase #94–96, 100 Showcase '95 #7 Star Trek #18, 30 Sun Devils #7 Superboy vol. 3 #17–18 Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #236, 240–242, 249 Supergirl vol. 2 #14–23 Superman #376–378, 387, 389, 397–399, 403–404, 406, 408 The Superman Family #182–194, 215–222 Superman: "The Computer Masters of Metropolis" Superman Through the Ages #1 Super Powers vol. 2 #1–6 Super Powers vol. 3 #1–4 Takion #1–7 Teen Titans Spotlight #9 Time Warp #5 Underworld Unleashed: Apokolips - Dark Uprising #1 V #17–18 Vigilante #16, 19–50, Annual #1–2 The Warlord #55–62 Web #13–14 Weird War Tales #53, 65, 68, 74–76, 80–81, 83–84, 91, 98 Wonder Woman #258, 290 World of Krypton #1–3 World's Finest Comics #257, 275–278

First Comics

E-Man vol. 2 #8, 10–11

Marvel Comics

Captain America #240 Crazy Magazine #68–69, 75, 77–79, 81 Savage Sword of Conan #181

Miscellaneous

The Multi-Path Adventures of Superman: Bizarro β€” six-part animated series for the Internet
  • Specialty advertising and custom comic books for clients including Radio Shack, Power Tool Institute, Bariatric Health Institute, Silly Putty, Mattel Toys, Fruit-of-the-Loom, NASCAR, Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical
  • Role playing game manuals for Mayfair Games
  • Color and activity books for Scholastic, Simon Scribbles, Dalmatian Publishing, Meredith Books

Magazines

Video Action Magazine β€” Various articles on topics including emerging video technology, hardware, legal issues and reviews Crazy Magazine β€” Movie parodies and humor articles Weekly World News β€” Satiric and humorous articles on politics and social issues for weekly tabloidWWE Kids Magazine β€” Wrote articles, comic strips and features for World Wrestling Entertainment’s magazine for children