A 1982 DC Comics house ad for the first issue of Arion, Lord of Atlantis proclaimed, “Written by Paul Kupperberg! One of DC’s Most Versatile Writers!”
 
The next forty years would confirm that label as the writer’s resume filled with credits that covered the spectrum of genres, mediums, and characters, from superheroes to romance, Batman to Betty and Veronica, Superman to Scooby Doo, and comic books to coloring books.
 
A one-time editor for DC Comics and the fake news tabloid Weekly World News, he is the creator of Arion, Lord of Atlantis, Checkmate, and Takion, as well as the writer of the Eisner and Harvey Award nominated Life with Archie series, including the groundbreaking “Marriage of Kevin Keller” and “Death of Archie” storylines. He has also written more than three dozen books of fiction and nonfiction for kids and adults, short stories, humor, online animation, and syndicated newspaper strips.
 
When the young writer asked veteran DC Comics Silver Age scribe Bob Haney the trick to writing a good comic book story, the co-creator of The Teen Titans and Metamorpho told him, “There’s no trick. You just write them one page at a time, panel by panel.”
 
Countless panels and more than half a century later, Kupperberg looks back at his secret origin as a comic book fan and his Bronze Age transformation into a working comic book professional.