Comics credits
His first comics credit was in Detective Comics #445 (March 1975), as writer of the back-up feature "The Touchdown Trap", with back-up stories in Action Comics, The Flash and Batman Family soon following.[8] He was assistant editor to Julius Schwartz[3] on issues of Action Comics, Detective Comics, and Superman. His writing credits consist largely of back-up features, especially for Action Comics featuring Air-Wave, Aquaman, and the Atom. Rozakis stated in a 2014 interview that "I don't recall how we ended up with the three of them. It may have simply been that all three had names that began with 'A' and it was a backup in Action Comics".[9]
His credits during his 25-year career with DC total "almost four hundred stories" featuring most DC characters, "plus dozens of features, puzzles, and activities pages".[7]
In 1976, Rozakis and Paul Levitz co-wrote a revival of the Teen Titans.[10] Among his characters he created during this time are Duela Dent;[11][12] the Bumblebee;[13] and the Calculator.[14][15] He revived Batwoman[16] and the original Bat-Girl.
He was the writer for Secret Society of Super Villains when it was cancelled as part of the DC Implosion. Issue 15 was the last published, but the unpublished issues 16 and 17 appeared in Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, and later in a hardcover collected edition published in 2012.[19]
He and artist Dan Spiegle created the character Mister E in Secrets of Haunted House #31 (Dec. 1980).[20] Rozakis wrote seven stories for the "Whatever Happened to...?" backup feature in DC Comics Presents in 1980 and 1981[21] and the Superman: The Secret Years miniseries in 1985. He scripted the comics adaptations of such movies as Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).[8] He was the writer of the syndicated comic strip The Superman Sunday Special for two years.
His most well-known writing came in the twelve-issue 1986 series 'Mazing Man, featuring the misadventures of self-declared homemade hero Sigfried Horatio Hunch III, which Rozakis co-created with artist Stephen DeStefano. The two returned to the character for three specials and for Secret Origins #16 (July 1987), to tell "The Closest Thing To A Secret Origin of 'Mazing Man You Will Ever Get". Rozakis co-created the series Hero Hotline with DeStefano, on which Rozakis provided the coloring.
Rozakis' comic book work in 1998–2000 was a variety of custom publications including the "Celebrate the Century" comic books[8] for the United States Postal Service, as well as publications for Con Edison, the San Francisco Giants and the United Nations Land Mine Awareness program. In 2008, he began writing a series of "alternate reality" articles titled "The Secret History of All-American Comics Inc." for Alter Ego and Back Issue! magazines.
