Dez Skinn

Dez Skinn is a British comic book and magazine editor. Following a five year stint at IPC on such titles as Whizzer and Chips, Cor!! and Buster, he was headhunted to expand the comics arm of Williams/Warner Bros publishing. He took over editing MAD, Tarzan, Korak and Laurel & Hardy, revived Monster Mag and launched House of Hammer. Independently he created the science fiction monthly Starburst (1977) then was headhunted by Stan Lee to reshape his floundering UK reprint division. As editorial director for the UK arm of Marvel Comics, he reformatted existing titles Mavel Comic, Star Wars Weekly and Spider-Man Comic, plus monthlies Rampage and Savage Sword of Conan, and launched the weekly Hulk Comic and acquired the BBC licence for Doctor Who Weekly, among other things. After leaving Marvel, he founded and edited Warrior, which featured Alan Moore's Marvelman and V for Vendetta, then produced a range of 2000 AD coloured reprints for America before settling into editing and publishing Comics International for the last 15 years.