Jack C. Harris Spotlight Panel (42:06, 96.3mb)
The panel starts with Comic Con giving Jack an Inkpot Award. The panel is moderated by Mark Evanier. Jack answers questions on how he got into comics, comic fandom and DC Comics. He spoke about teaching comics, when he knew he wanted to work in comics, how he got hired at DC Comics, being Murray Boltinoff’s assistant, him becoming an editor, what he learned from Julie Schwartz, a horror story about trying to get a book out before deadline, the artist and writer he found was fast and dependable, a funny story about him writing a story in 30 minutes, the Jr Woodchucks and his duties, writing fake letters for the letter pages, getting his legitimate fan letter printed in a comic, the first comic he wrote, being surprised when a particular artist was going to draw his story, why he’s a huge fan of Adam Strange and Green Lanter, Supergirl and how that changed Action Comics, what he got assigned that he we wasn’t right for, why he left DC, Nelson E. Birdwell, Mike Grell and Vinnie Colletta on Warlord, special projects at DC, his new Working with Ditko book and what it was like working with Ditko and why he did so much work with him.
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