Elliot S! Maggin

Appearing July 1-4

Elliot S! Maggin will be appearing Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday at booth 809. Elliot S! Maggin is best known as the principal writer of Superman comic books from 1971 until 1986. He has written at least five hundred comic book stories, including runs on Superman, Action Comics, Batman, Batgirl, Detective Comics, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, Starfire, Wonder Woman, World’s Finest, and Wonder Woman. As a novelist, he has written two Superman novels, Last Son of Krypton and Miracle Monday, the novelization of the graphic novel Kingdom Come, and a novel featuring Marvel’s Generation X. He has written for several cartoons, including Spider-Man, X-Men, and Batman: The Animated Series.

Elliot S. Maggin has written stories about his heroes – both real and made-up ones – since he was very young. He started publishing them at sixteen, when a boys’ magazine accepted his time travel story about Winston Churchill and the Boer. He has written television, film, animation, journalism, speeches and technical manuals, and designed software games.

Mr. Maggin has also raised horses, run for public office, taught at various high schools and colleges and spent several winters skiing to excess. If he had not become a writer and still managed to escape law school, he would probably have been a cowboy. He is the father of two and the husband of one. Like many of the characters whose company he enjoys best, he has grave primal doubts and knows very little for certain, but he essentially believes in everything. Even you.