Elliot S! Maggin is an American writer.

Maggin started working as a professional writer in his teens, selling historical stories about the Boer War to a boys' magazine. He wrote the comic story "What Can One Man Do?" for a class during his junior year of college. When it received a grade of B+, Maggin disagreed with the assessment and sent his script to DC Comics. It was passed around the DC offices, and Neal Adams chose to draw the script. Though the initial grade was not corrected, Maggin became a writer for DC, selling his stories to fund a master's degree in journalism. He became the principal writer for Superman, where his imaginative stories and innate understanding of the principles of heroism kept the Man of Steel popular for over 20 years. He also wrote for Green Arrow, where his sense of humour was allowed far more freedom in the loose dialogue of the main character. Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War There were two Boer wars, one from December 16, 1880-March 23, 1881 and the second from October 11, 1899-May 31, 1902 both between the British and the settlers of Dutch, French and German origin (called Boers, Afrikaners or Voortrekkers) in South... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... Cover to Green Lantern #76, April 1970. ... Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June of 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all time. ... Green Arrow (Oliver Ollie Queen) is a DC Comics superhero. ...

Maggin wrote hundreds of comic stories, television scripts, stories for film, animation and journalistic pieces. He wrote two Superman novels, Last Son of Krypton and Miracle Monday. He served as an editor for DC Comics, raised horses, ran for public office in New Hampshire, taught at various high schools and colleges (as well as ski resorts), wrote stories for Atari video games, and worked on websites. He also wrote the novelization of the graphic novel Kingdom Come based on the story by Mark Waid, and a novel featuring the Marvel mutant superhero team Generation X. Last Son of Krypton is a novel written by Elliot S! Maggin and based on the DC Comics character Superman. ... Miracle Monday is a novel written by Elliot S! Maggin and based on the DC Comics character Superman. ... For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... Promotional art for Kingdom Come. ... Mark Waid is an American comic book writer. ... Generation X was a Marvel Comics superhero team, featured in an eponymous monthly series from November, 1994 until June, 2001. ...

Because comic book scripts tend to favor the exclamation mark as the punctuation of choice, Maggin routinely used it instead of a full stop. Out of habit, he once signed his own name Elliot S! Maggin and editor Julius Schwartz liked the distinctive rhythm of the name, insisting that Maggin write his name that way thereafter. An exclamation mark (also exclamation point, and, rarely, mark of admiration) is a punctuation mark. ... A full stop or period, also called a full point, is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. ... Julius Julie Schwartz (June 19, 1915 - February 8, 2004) was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. ...

External links

• Elliot S! Maggin page at Superman Through The Ages
• Last Son of Krypton e-book
• Miracle Monday e-book