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Paul Kupperberg

@paulkupperberg.bsky.social

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Writer of many comics, editor of many others, author of DIRECT CREATIVITY, DIRECT CONVERSATIONS, PAUL KUPPERBERG'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO WRITING COMICS, THE DEVIL & LEO PERSKY. Also, I killed Archie. PANEL BY PANEL available at https://bit.ly/3LWaJcc

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't this swell? By Jack Burnley and Stan Kaye, colored by Jack Adler. May 1947.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 1d

I hear @jamesgunn.bsky.social still in negotiation with Sebastian Cabot to reprise his role in the new #Checkmate series.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. DC created a pitch like this for all its properties.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 1d

CHECKMATE is coming!

From DC Comics' portfolio of pitches: the early 2000s media summary & pitch for the CHECKMATE franchise, written by Martin Pasko. @jamesgunn.bsky.social #Peacemaker

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 2d

If it ain't at the Statler-Hilton Hotel, it ain't the New York Comicon...but it ain't 1972 no more neither.

Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

Legendary lettering in a SCHNAPP!
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PAUL KUPPERBERG: My 13 Favorite DC HOUSE ADS Lettered by IRA SCHNAPP

The celebrated Mr. K makes some Schnapp judgments…

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. DC's honored all its agreements.

Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah...but could Culp have played the existential Hebraic angst I always envisioned for Harry?

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

It is! And the creator participation and royalty $ is nice too!

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

You are correct!

Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

You're welcome! #Peacemaker Season 2

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

In this issue.
BONUS: Can you spot the typo on the cover?

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

I'm plotzing!

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 3d

Wait! WHAT--?! #Peacemaker @jamesgunn.bsky.social

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 4d

50 years of Power Girl!
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POWER GIRL: 50 Years of a JUSTICE SOCIETY Superstar

13 COVERS: PAUL KUPPERBERG pays an ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE to the Kryptonian — and the Atlantean…

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 5d

Great Krypton! That time I met the big screen's first SUPERMAN! @13thd.bsky.social @real-james-gunn.bsky.social
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PAUL KUPPERBERG: My 13 Favorite Things About KIRK ALYN’s SUPERMAN

A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to screendom’s first live-action Man of Steel…

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 12d

I try not to buy any new old comics but I couldn't resist this nice run of Charlton's THE PHANTOM by Don Newton that I picked up at my LCS for around $20.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 12d

Yep. I wrote the movie parodies for a couple or three years.

Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 13d

Some undated water colors by my grandmother Ann Kupperberg.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 13d

First time I'm noticing the Lloyd Haynes sight gag artist Steve Smallwood threw into "The Signing," the parody I wrote of THE SHINING for CRAZY #69 (December 1980).

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 16d

My grandfather Alfred Kupperberg, at his "office." He was a licensed electrician and a motion picture projector operator in Brooklyn and Manhattan in the 1920s.

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 16d

It's hereditary. I got it from my grandfather Alfred.

Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 17d

I don't think anyone still uses PHOTOSTATS, but I found a stash of old 1960s-era DC COMICS HOUSE AD PHOTOSTATS made circa-2000 that can now take up space in your home instead of mine!
www.ebay.com/itm/23634279...

Pardon Our Interruption...

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Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve always pronounced it like “toast” said with a lisp.

Paul Kupperberg @paulkupperberg.bsky.social · 18d

He started off surreal! At the plotting session with editor Julie Schwartz Keith pitched Bug as “Bugs Bunny with a teleportation device.”