Marie Javins (born April 22, 1966) is an American

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editor, comic book colorist, and travel writer known for her long association with

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and the

Teshkeel Media Group Teshkeel Comics ( ar, تشكيل كومكس, translit=taškeel komiks, or more formally تشكيل للقصص المصورة ''taškeel li-l-qiṣaṣ al-muṣawwara'') is a Kuwaiti comic book publisher, and a division of Teshkeel Media Group, a c ...

. As of 2020, Javins is editor-in-chief of

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Career

Javins attended

Antioch College Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was i ...

and interned at Marvel Comics and

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. After graduation, she was hired as an editorial assistant and secretary for

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. Javins became a full editor at Marvel and Epic Comics in the early nineties, editing projects such as Akira, Groo, and Alex Ross's ''

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''. She also colored more than 2,000 pages. In 2001 Javins left Marvel to launch an around-the-world online project called MariesWorldTour.com. She circumnavigated the globe twice, documenting her journeys extensively. She subsequently worked with the Teshkeel Media Group as the series editor of The 99. After a shakeup at Warner Media in August 2020, she became the co-editor-in-chief, with Michele R. Wells, for

. In November 2020, Javins was named sole editor-in-chief of DC Comics.

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''Jersey City Independent'' (Dec. 2008): Interview

''Cyrus Farivar blog'' (May 2011): Interview
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