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.

The Kingdom Come story, in which the Blue Beetle took part, has been adapted as an audio drama by John Whitman, based on the story by Mark Waid and Alex Ross and the novelization by Elliot S. Maggin ( Time Warner Audio Books, 1998 ).

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

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.

On February 1, 2008, Maggin posted on the main page of his website that he had decided not to run after all, effectively ending his 2008 campaign.

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.

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 ).

In September 2004 DC Comics released ' DC Comics Presents: Mystery in Space ' Vol 2, # 1, featuring the stories ' Crisis on 2 Worlds ' written by Elliot S. Maggin with art by J. H.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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!

Maggin ( born 1950 ), is an American writer of comic books, film, television and novels.

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

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

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.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

Persons developed in today's corporations cannot hope to serve here -- a judgment based on experiences of my own in business and in activities outside.

Solomon Asch shows the transcultural stability of metaphors based on sensation ( hot, sweet, bitter, etc. ) dealing with personal qualities of human beings and events.

In fact, if judgments are to be rendered upon the soundness of his historicism, they must be based on scanty evidence.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

These lines never cease to haunt the book amidst all the exaltations of combat, and to make an appeal for a larger and more elemental human community than one based on the brutal necessities of war.

History has demonstrated many times that concerts of nations based solely on the negative spur of common danger are unlikely to survive when the external danger ceases to be dramatically urgent.

A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

The secretary based his assessment on the upturn in retail sales.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??

To achieve this destiny, acts as well as words are needed -- not only acts that lead to physical strength but also acts that lead to strength based on right doing and respect.

The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel ; ;

Face Of A Hero ( closed ), based on a Pierre Boulle novel.

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The state development budget will reflect the capital needs of all the state agencies and the priority of the projects in the budget will be based on the state plan.

The adjustments needed to establish a uniform and coordinated fiscal tax collection year calendar throughout Rhode Island, based on a July 1 to June 30 year, are shown below.

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In order to assist the States in maintaining basic vocational rehabilitation services, Section 2 of the amended Act provides that allotments to States for support of such services be based on ( 1 ) need, as measured by a State's population, and ( 2 ) fiscal capacity, as measured by its per capita income.