Maggin 1978 novel Superman: Last Son of Krypton, Jor-El is shown as having sent a navigation probe ahead of Kal-El's spaceship, in order to find a suitable foster parent on his new planet.

Maggin story set in a future New York City, where the Silver Age Luthor establishes it after he is reformed.

Maggin novelization, Free is teaching the lowlies art and constantly berates Orion to inspire ( unsuccessfully ) individual thought ( though Scott likes Orion ).

Maggin novelization, King is also newly immortal, and Vandal Savage's protege.

Superman: Last Son of Krypton is a novel written by Elliot S. Maggin and based on the DC Comics character Superman.

Old Scratch is also referred to in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, in The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo by Rudyard Kipling, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope, in Miracle Monday by Elliot S. Maggin, in Alan Wake by Remedy Entertainment, Dirty Jobs episode 1. 28 (" Coal Miner "), and in The Witches of Eastwick ( film ).

Luckily fellow DC writer Elliot S. Maggin, with the help of the Justice League and the Spectre, is able to restore matters on both Earths in Justice League of America # 124 ( November 1975 ).

Other fledgling work at DC included the six-page " The Greatest Story Never Told ", by writer Paul Kupperberg, in that same issue, and the five-page " The Edge of History ", written by Elliot S. Maggin, in Unknown Soldier No. 219 ( Sept. 1978 ).

Maggin started working as a professional writer in his teens, selling historical stories about the Boer War to a boys ' magazine.

Though the initial grade was not amended, Maggin became a writer for DC.

He was the initial writer of the Batman Family title and paired Batgirl and Robin together as a team in the first issue ( Sept .- Oct. 1975 ) Maggin wrote a licensed Welcome Back, Kotter comic book series which was based on the popular ABC sitcom.

* Superman writer Elliot S. Maggin incorporated the Kansas location into the DC Universe in his 1981 Superman novel, Miracle Monday.

When it received a grade of B +, Maggin disagreed with the assessment, remade it as a comic book script, and sent his script to DC Comics.

Maggin used the idea, which became his initial foray into the Superman comic book, and it was published in Superman # 247 ( Jan. 1972 ).

Because comic book scripts tend to favor the exclamation mark as the punctuation of choice, Maggin routinely used it instead of a full stop.

In addition to the hundreds of stories Maggin wrote for the DC comics universe, he has also written television scripts, stories for film, animation and journalistic pieces.

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Maggin contains descriptions of Krypton, mainly referencing the Silver Age version ; it describes the planet as a " failed star " with massive surface gravity and extremely hostile, glaciated conditions, which forced extreme adaptation and rapid evolution in the descendants of humanoid space travelers ( and their dogs ) who became stranded on its surface in prehistory.

Maggin describes the rise of a civilization which uses geothermal heat as its primary power source, developing science and technology, but finding it difficult to escape the massive world's gravity.

Elliot S. Maggin, also spelled Elliot S!

The first issue of DC Graphic Novel featured an adaptation of the Star Raiders video game by Maggin and artist José Luis García-López.

Maggin wrote Superman # 400 ( Oct. 1984 ) which featured work by several popular comics artists including the only major DC work by Jim Steranko as well as an introduction by noted science-fiction author Ray Bradbury.

Maggin served as an editor for DC from 1989 to 1991 and oversaw the licensed TSR titles Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Avatar, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Gammarauders, and Spelljammer.

Maggin " and editor Julius Schwartz liked the distinctive rhythm of the name, insisting that Maggin's name henceforth be written that way.

In 1984, Maggin first ran for political office as a candidate for the U. S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district but was defeated in the Democratic primary.

Maggin was the Democratic nominee for a seat in the New York State Assembly in 1990.

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