Dan DiDio
Dan DiDio interview about the character of Batman.
Born
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Editor

Dan DiDio is an American comic book editor and executive. He is currently the Senior Vice President — Executive Editor, DC Universe, for DC Comics, having been promoted to that position in October 2002 after having joined the company in January 2002 as DC Universe Vice President — Editorial. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Cover to the History of the DC Universe trade paperback. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ...

He was awarded by Wizard magazine as its first ever “Man of the Year” in 2003 for his work on the DC Universe line. Wizard: The Comics Magazine is a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States. ...

Prior to joining DC Comics, DiDio worked in television, beginning with the American television network CBS in 1981. In 1985 he moved on to Capital Cities/ABC, where he was Public Relations Manager for the network's New York-based daytime soap operas and later worked in the network's Los Angeles offices as Executive Director of Children's Programming. This article is about the broadcast network. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...

After leaving ABC, DiDio was a freelance writer and story editor for Mainframe Entertainment, specifically working on ReBoot and War Planets. Joining the company full time he became Mainframe's Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs. Dan was given the opportunity to pursue other ventures but only after selling Mainframe Entertainment's property, Scary Godmother to YTV for one Canadian dollar. ^{[citation needed]} Mainframe Entertainment is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Los Angeles, California, USA. It produces childrens computer animation TV series. ... ReBoot was a CGI animated series that was produced by Canadian production company, Mainframe Entertainment, and created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace, with the visuals designed by Brendan McCarthy after an initial attempt by Ian Gibson. ... Categories: Animated television series | Programs broadcast by YTV | Stub ... Cover to The Mystery Date Scary Godmother is a successful childrens book and comic book series created by artist Jill Thompson and published by Sirius Entertainment in 1997. ... This article is about the Canadian television network. ... “C$” redirects here. ...

Since 2006, DiDio has been writing a weekly column called "DC Nation" which has then been appearing on the end page of most of DC Comics's main superhero titles; originally, the column was tied in to the yearlong weekly maxi-series 52, a project which he oversaw, but it has continued since. A maxiseries or maxi-series is an occasional title given to a comic book miniseries which lasts for eight issues or longer (usually twelve) and forms a complete story. ... 52 is the title of a comic book limited series published by DC Comics, which debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. ...

Criticism

The editorially mandated death of Spoiler and her subsequent lack of a memorial in the Batcave alongside that of the second Robin Jason Todd has made DiDio the target of criticism from GirlWonder.org. (http://girl-wonder.org/index.php) Stephanie Brown, a. ... Jason Peter Todd is a fictional character published in stories by DC Comics. ...

Footnotes

External links

• Dan DiDio Named Vice President - Executive Editor, DC Universe (includes television background information)
• 2004 Newsarama interview by Matt Brady
• October 2004 Newsarama press release by Matt Brady