New York Times profiles Paul Levitz

The New York Times profiled DC president and publisher Paul Levitz this week, highlighting his early years and his return to writing the Justice Society this Wednesday:

"Paul's a good guy and a clever writer," said Mark Evanier, a comics historian. Team books, in which a writer must juggle several characters, can be more challenging than solo titles, with one main hero. "He wrote a team book in a way that had characters relating to one another without phony sounding conflicts, without inventing one-syllable personalities."

All told, it's been quite a journey for Mr. Levitz, who began reading comics in the 1960's and has worked for DC since 1973. "I started out reading comics — like most in my generation — out of a box of them that a kid on the block had," he said in an interview at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y., where his den houses more than 30,000 handsomely bound comics.

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