The celebrated Mr. K shines a spotlight on the behind-the-scenes staffers who brought you the comics you love… By PAUL KUPPERBERG If you’re in the vicinity of Harrison, NY, Saturday, March 25 between noon and 2 pm, I’m going to be signing Direct Conversations: Talks with Fellow DC Comics Bronze Age Creators and other bits of ephemera at Aw Yeah! Comics at 313 Halstead Ave. Hope to see you there! * * * In Direct Conversations: Talks with Fellow DC Comics Bronze Age Creators, one-time assistant editor and former company president and publisher Paul Levitz remembered, “(The DC Comics offices of the early 1970s) wasn’t a terrible environment to be in. And it was an easy environment to learn in. … Imagine the opportunity to work in a place with 35 people, and one out of every five of them will become Hall of Famers in the industry. Bear that in mind. Two out of the five were in drudge jobs that mostly involved moving stuff along, so maybe half of the people with any responsibilities would become legends. And never mind all the other people walking in and out of the office. How could you not learn? How could you not grow, surrounded by that many role models of creative success?” Or, as sports manager Spencer Tracy famously assessed athlete Katharine Hepburn in the 1952 classic Pat and Mike, “Not much meat on her, but what’s there is cherce!” That little company, hidden away on one-third of a floor in midtown Manhattan’s 75 Rockefeller Center was indeed home to a powerful line-up of creatives. The two who were in “drudge jobs” Paul references were company president Sol Harrison and production manager Jack Adler. The other three were Joe Kubert, Joe Orlando, and Julie Schwartz, but that left out a couple of dozen names that, while not legendary, perhaps deserve to be and were, in their own ways, every bit as important as Sol, Jack, and the rest to the history and development of DC Comics. Readers of certain ages will likely be familiar with some of the names below in different creative capacities for DC and Marvel (among others), but a lot of people got their start on staff during this pivotal era in comics history. A forgotten source was the “DC Profiles” feature (many of which I...