Maggin started working as a professional writer in his teens, selling historical stories about the Boer War to a boys' magazine.

Indeed, to equalize this thrilling experience, I must go back three decades when, as a literary agent, I sold the very first story of a young Ray Bradbury!

[8] During one of the meetings, the vice-president's stepson (and future comic book writer) Jeph Loeb suggested a story that would eventually be called "Must There Be a Superman?".

[6] He wrote Green Arrow stories as well, where his sense of humor was allowed far more freedom in the loose dialogue of the main character.

[10] He was the initial writer of the Batman Family title and paired Batgirl and Robin together as a team in the first issue (Sept.-Oct. 1975)[11] Maggin wrote a licensed Welcome Back, Kotter comic book series[12] which was based on the popular ABC sitcom.

[6] The first issue of DC Graphic Novel featured an adaptation of the Star Raiders video game by Maggin and artist José Luis García-López.

[18] Maggin served as an editor for DC from 1989 to 1991 and oversaw the licensed TSR titles Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Avatar, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Gammarauders, and Spelljammer.

[19] Because comic book scripts tend to favor the exclamation mark as the punctuation of choice, Maggin routinely used it instead of a period.

[5] Explaining in an interview: I got into the habit of putting exclamation marks at the end of sentences instead of periods because reproduction on pulp paper was so lousy.

And Julie saw it, and before he told me, he goes into the production room and issues a general order that any mention of Elliot Maggin's name will be punctuated with an exclamation mark rather than a period from now on until eternity.

[1] In 1984, Maggin first ran for political office as a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district but was defeated in the Democratic primary.

During the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Maggin was a known resident of Earth-Prime and a major character in Justice League of America issues #123-124.

[35] This appearance references a term paper which had been awarded a B− at Brandeis University and was Maggin's first sale to DC, which posited Green Arrow's mayoral campaign in Star City.