![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This gave rise to the famous fictional metal Kryptonite, which made its first appearance in the comics in the story "Superman Returns To Krypton!", credited to writer Bill Finger, in Superman #61 (Dec. Woolfolk told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet. She served from 1942 to 1944 as an editor at All-American Publications, one of the three companies that would merge to form the present-day DC, then spent the next two years at Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor to Marvel Comics, and in 1948 was an editor at EC Comics. The first female editor at DC, one of the two largest companies in the field, she is credited with helping to create the fictional metal Kryptonite in the Superman mythos.īorn Dorothy Roubicek, Woolfolk was a New York City high school graduate who never attended college but nonetheless won prizes on a 1950s television game show. ![]() Woolfolk née Dorothy Roubicek (OctoNovem ) was a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry, an editor at DC Comics during the 1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books. ![]()
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