Your All-Time Favorite DC Comics Writers - From Any and All Generations

[caj]

Who are your top 5 (or more) All-Time favorite writers at DC Comics. List the writer and the comic(s) you loved the most from the writer.

I hope I'm right because this could be so much fun to see everyone's lists.

[caj]

1. Paul Levitz - Legion of Super Heroes (1980s)
2. Steve Englehart - Justice League of America (late 1970s)
3. Keith Giffen - Justice League International / L.E.G.I.O.N '89 (1980s)
4. Mark Waid - Kingdom Come / Flash (1990s)
5. Len Wein - Justice League of America (1970s)

[K7P5V]

Definitely, My Top (3) Three choices...

• Chuck Dixon: Nightwing

• Jeph Loeb: Superman

• Jerry Ordway: The Power of SHAZAM!

[Lightning Rider]

Hard to rank.

Mark Waid - Flash, Kingdom Come, Birthright, JLA, Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave & the Bold, 52
Alan Moore - Watchmen, Swamp Thing, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, various other DC characters & titles
Grant Morrison - Batman, JLA, All-Star Superman, Green Lantern, Arkham Asylum, Final Crisis, 52
Greg Rucka - Wonder Woman, 52, Gotham Central,
Geoff Johns - Flash (Wally), Infinite Crisis, JSA, Green Lantern, Superman (Brainiac, New Krypton), 52

Johns should be higher as he's written a lot of my favorite comics but he let me down too many times. I'll probably revise this list after recalling some older stuff.

[etrumble]

Grant Morrison - Doom Patrol, All Star Superman
Geoff Johns - JSA, Green Lantern
Jack Kirby - Kamandi, New Gods
Gail Simone - Birds of Prey, Secret Six
Mark Waid - Kingdom Come, Legion of Super-Heroes

I picked the writers and runs that I will pick up any time I see floppies available of those runs(even if I already have them in collected version). Fun reads for me.

[Chcknman69]

1. Roy Thomas - All-Star Squadron
2. Paul Levitz - Legion of Superheroes / All-Star Comics ( 70's )
3. Len Wein - Justice League of America ( 70's )
4. Gardner Fox - All-Star Comics ( Original ) / Justice League of America ( 60's )
5. Geoff Johns - JSA
Honorable Mention: Gerry Conway ( SSOSV )

[Twice-named]

Greg Rucka - Detective Comics, Crime Bible, Final Crisis: Revelations, Checkmate, Wonder Woman
Matt Wagner - Sandman Mystery Theatre
Peter Milligan - Shade, The Changing Man, Enigma, The Extremist
Marv Wolfman - New Teen Titans, Adventures of Superman
Paul Kupperberg - Vigilante

[Sutekh]

Marv Wolfman - All-New Teen Titans
Paul Levitz - Legion of Super-Heroes
Roy Thomas - All-Star Squadron, Infinity, Inc.
Gail Simone - Birds of Prey, Secret Six
Alan Moore - Swamp Thing

Honorable mention to Mike Barr - Outsiders, who might, on an odd-numbered day and my fickle tastes-of-the-moment, displace Marv Wolfman from this list.

[Stanlos]

Kurt Busiek
Mark Waid
Gail Simone
Warren Ellis
Peter A David
William Messner-Loebs
Ron Marz
Devyn Grayson
Phil Jimenez
Chris Claremont
John Ostrander
Dan Jurgens
Beau Smith
George Perez
Doug Moench
Keith Giffen
JM DeMatteis
Chuck Dixon

[JackDaw]

John Ostrander….Suicide Squad, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, JLA Incarnations, Manhunter.
Alan Moore…Swamp Thing, the Superman and Green Lantern stories. (Could consider his run on Supreme as a wonderful homage to Silver Age Superman).
Garth Ennis…Hitman. Yes…just the one series…but what a series.

[K7P5V]

Garth Ennis…Hitman. Yes…just the one series…but what a series.

I concur. Truly one-of-a-kind (IMHO):

[Stanlos]

John Ostrander….Suicide Squad, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, JLA Incarnations, Manhunter.
Alan Moore…Swamp Thing, the Superman and Green Lantern stories. (Could consider his run on Supreme as a wonderful homage to Silver Age Superman).
Garth Ennis…Hitman. Yes…just the one series…but what a series.

I can't believe I omitted John Ostrander!!!

[Jekyll]

1. James Robinson- Starman
2. Mark Waid- The Flash
3. Geoff Johns- Hawkman/Green Lantern/ & JSA
4. Jerry Ordway - Power of Shazam
5. Dan Jurgens- Teen Titans .....mainly because of Ray Palmer

[ducklord]

Hmmm...

In no particular order:
1. Grant Morrison (Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, Multiversity, GL, etc.) - Not the most naturalistic writer (heir to Kirby on that front), but on pure Ideas Per Page, he's the modern king.
2. Roy Thomas (All things Earth-2) - The man loves the Golden Age, and so do I.
3. Mark Waid (Flash, 52, World's Finest, Kingdom Come) - The guy who, I think, truly "gets" why the DCU is cool.
4. John Ostrander (Suicide Squad, Firestorm, Spectre, Martian Manhunter) - The DC writer who, I think, knows how to best play with the toys.
5. Paul Levitz (Legion) - There was a period when the Legion was almost as popular as the X-Men.

Honorable mention:
Gail Simone
Peter David
Alan Moore (not enough work to qualify, but damn if he didn't make his mark)
Keith Giffen (more people need to talk about Keith)
James Robinson (Cry for Justice kept him off the list)
Gardner Fox
Denny O'Neil
Jack Kirby (if only for the "Tiger Force" speech)

[Batman Begins 2005]

Grant Morrison is my #1 for his 2006-2013 Batman run primarily. Gothic and All-Star Superman also. After him, Denny O'Neil.