Template:Short description Template:Infobox comics creator Janice Race is an American former comic book editor best known for her work at DC Comics in the 1980s.
Biography
Raised in The Bronx,[1] Race earned a B.S. in speech pathology and audiology from the College of City University.[2] She was employed by DC Comics in the 1980s[3] and had worked as a textbook editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich before entering the comics industry.[4]
She began working at DC in late 1983[5] and served as an Associate Editor for Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway[1] as well as an editor in her own right. Among the titles she oversaw was World's Finest Comics which featured DC's two best-known characters, Superman and Batman.[6] Race was a frequent collaborator with writer Greg Potter and edited his Jemm, Son of Saturn limited series and his Me & Joe Priest graphic novel.[7] She and Potter spent several months working on new concepts for the mid-1980s relaunch of Wonder Woman,[8] before being joined by writer/artist George Pérez.[9]
Race left DC before the first issue of the new series was published to return to book publishing[10][11] and was replaced by Karen Berger. Bob Rozakis, the Executive Director of Production at DC Comics in the 1980s, has stated that Race left DC after being told of the low sales on the Jemm, Son of Saturn series.[12]
Bibliography
As editor unless noted:
DC Comics
- All-Star Squadron #32–58, Annual #3 (1984–1986) (as Associate Editor)
- America vs. the Justice Society #1–4 (1985) (as Associate Editor)
- Arak, Son of Thunder #33–41, Annual #1 (1984–1985) (as Associate Editor)
- Booster Gold #1–5 (1986)
- DC Graphic Novel #5 ("Me & Joe Priest") (1985)
- Deadman vol. 2 #1–3 (1986) (as co-editor for #2–3 with Richard Bruning)
- The Fury of Firestorm #22, 24–26, 28–49, 54, Annual #3 (1984–1986) (as Associate Editor until #36, as Editor from #37 afterwards)
- Jemm, Son of Saturn #1–12 (1984–1985) (as co-editor for #1–2 with Dick Giordano)
- Secret Origins vol. 2 #4 (Firestorm) (1986)
- Sun Devils #4–6 (1984 (as Associate Editor)
- World's Finest Comics #306–323 (1984–1986)
References
External links
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- Janice Race at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Race, Janice, brief autobiographical essay for Dick Giordano's "Meanwhile" column, Wonder Woman #317 (July 1984) "I grew up in The Bronx, in the shadow of Yankee Stadium... Here, at DC, I am the New York contact for most of the books written and edited by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway."
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- ↑ Gold, Alan "Wonder Words" letter column, Wonder Woman #329 (February 1986) "[Alan Gold will] be turning over the editorial reins to Janice Race...She has been working for several months already, as a matter of fact, with a bright new writer named Greg Potter."
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- ↑ Thomas, Roy letter column, Infinity, Inc. #25 (April 1986) "Janice Race has moved back into the world of book publishing after her sojourn in comics but we wish her well."
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