Joe Orlando

Paul Kupperberg on February 20th, 2020

That’s it. That’s all you need to know. “Joe Orlando, Artist.”

Comics throws the word “legend” around an awful lot, but Joe (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) is the real deal. A Wally Wood assistant who was soon drawing for William C.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on September 15th, 2017

It must have been 1968, just before DC Comics (then known as National Periodical Publications, or just National) move from 575 Lexington Avenue, and I was a thirteen year old comic book reader making my first visit to the Manhattan offices of DC Comics.… Read the rest

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Paul Kupperberg on February 12th, 2014

Justice_League_Task_Force_game_coverCustom comics are comic books created specially for (usually) corporate clients. DC Comics has been doing them for as long as I can recall. Back in the olden days, Joe Orlando’s department handled the creative end of these projects. Years later, in the late-1990s/early-2000s, I was an editor in the Special Projects department that produced them for DC, where I worked on comics featuring a variety of DC’s superheroes for clients including the U.S… Read the rest

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