Comics industry legend and Comic-Con Inkpot Award winner Bob Wayne spent 28 years being the friendly face of DC Comics, as their head of sales & marketing. Bob was there at the birth of the direct market and worked at DC through an extended era of supercharged industry-revolutionising creativity.
At San Diego Comic-Con, former DC SVP Bob Wayne was hosted by Andrew Sumner of Titan Comics and Forbidden Planet to talk about his career. Well, the first sixty-five years of it at least. For decades, Bob Wayne was the public face of DC Comics to the comic book retailers, with an acerbically dry wit that also found a welcoming home for the British comic book retailers, distinct from the usual rabble-rousers of comic book huckster PR men.
Can I come in and pitch it? Come in at three. So I met with Paul in the morning, Carol Kalish for lunch, and DC editorial in the afternoon. I flew back the next day with a job offer from DC, a job offer from Marvel and a series pickup… Kalish said, 'I'd love to have you at Marvel, but if you take the job at DC, you'll be able to be there as long as you'd like. That was the best career advice I ever had, and I was there as long as I wanted to be.
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