Elliot S. Maggin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elliot S. Maggin , also Elliot S! Maggin (* 1950 ) is an American writer, comic book author and politician (Democratic Party).

Elliot S. Maggin

Life

Maggin began writing as a teenager. As a teenager, he managed to sell his first self-written stories, namely adventure stories about the Boer War , to a boys' magazine. After attending Brandeis University, when he was in his early twenties, he got a job as a full-time writer at DC-Comics . You were there through the script What Can One Man Do? , a social utopian business game based on the revision of a university term paper by Maggin, caught his attention: After What Can One Man Do? had been circulating in the offices of the publisher for a while, and had been noted with benevolence by various members of the publisher, the artist Neal Adams found himself willing to convert it into a drawn comic for test purposes. Impressed by the result, DC's editor-in-chief Julius Schwartz offered Maggin a position as a permanent freelancer.

After Maggin had financed his journalism studies at Columbia University in this way, he began working full-time as a comic book writer. Maggin's most influential work in this field was undoubtedly his longstanding work as the lead author of various series published by DC about the adventures of the science fiction hero Superman in 1971 and 1986. In this context, Maggin acted - together with Cary Bates - as a consultant by Mario Puzo , when he wrote the screenplay for Richard Donner's first Superman feature film, released in 1978 .

Another comic series to which Maggin contributed stories was the Green Arrow series , about an adventurous master archer. He also worked as a novelist: he wrote two novels about Superman ( Last Son of Krypton and Miracle Monday ) and the novels Generation X and Kingdom Come . There were also television games and magazine articles.

Maggin began to breed horses in the 1980s. He has also written stories for Atari video games and teaching assignments at high schools and colleges. At that time he was working as editor for DC.

After Maggin first tried - unsuccessfully - for a public office - as Congressman for New Hampshire - in 1984 , he announced in May 2007 that he would run for Congress as a Democratic candidate for the 24th constituency of California in 2008. He later withdrew the candidacy, a step he justified with a lack of funding for the expensive election campaign.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Maggin, Elliot S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maggin, Elliot S!
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, comic book writer, and politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH 1950