Who's Who In The '80s DC Bullpen?

Levitz surely.

Julie Schwarz still going at this point.

Creators? Erm...Alan Moore?

Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen were scoring some surprising hits with their D&D-flavoured Legion Of Super-Heroes - heavily soap-operatic in the Marvel Manner, but able to play the 'noble tradition' card as well. And Space Dungeons And Dragons, which along with Pac-Man survives for a thousand years although like Chess it is now played in hi-tech 3D.

Ernie Colon, Giordano, J.L. Garcia-Lopez... I'm definitely not up on my DC history. Was Dick Dillin still drawring?

Paul Kupperberg seemed to write a lot of stuff. An awful lot.

They had scored the 'major coup' of luring Roy Thomas across town to do All-Star Squadron.

Cary Bates was writing SUPERMAN & FLASH, wasn't he?

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...and Arak, a hopeless Conan variant drawn by the afore-mentioned Ernie Colon and inked by DC mainstay Tony DeZuniga (along w/ Alfredo Alacala, one of the last survivors of the 'Phillipine Invasion') Roy's pal and current CSI producer Gerry Conway was writing some underrated issues of Batman/Detective drawn by the late great Don Newton and inked by Dan Adkins, and also the JLA (sometimes drawn by George Perez after Dick Dillin died. Perez was also drawing the Teen Titans, written by another Marvel exile from the Shooter regime, Marv Wolfman, and edited by yet another former Marvel Editor-In-Chief, Len Wein.)

Schwartz protege Cary Bates would've been writing the Flash (drawn by Carmine Infantino) and Superman (drawn by Curt Swan) in the early to mid-80s.

Kanigher and Kubert were still writing/editing the war books, along w/ Murray Boltinoff and ppl like Irv Novick, who had worked for DC since the 50s. Gil Kane returned to DC to draw things like Sword of the Atom (written by Jan Strnad) and issues of Superman written by Wolfman.

Dick Giordano ran DC in the '80s. they had Doug Moench writing Batman (far, far better than Conway, IMO), and Mike W. Barr too. Denny O'Neil came over after Miller left Daredevil, I think.

Thomas, Wolfman, Wein and probably others came over because they couldn't stand Shooter. Many who stayed at Marvel did too—there was that infamous incident when Jarvis's resignation letter to Tony Stark the drunk was replaced with the text of Dave Cockrum's resignation letter, where he alleged that Shooter alienated everyone.

Karen Berger editing LSH and Amethyst, Princess Of Gemworld and maybe New Talent Showcase. Lots of people editing themselves at this point - Wolfman on NTT and Night Force and whatever else, I think Thomas on All-Star. Julie Schwarz, the oldest of the old-school, editing uber-irreverent Ambush Bug! JL Garcia-Lopez as some kind of possibly informal art director, seconded to churn out licensing art and covers because of a combination of elegance and house style.

Julie Schwartz disembodied head STARRING in Ambush Bug, even! Though that may have in the post-ironic 90s when ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN!

yep, he was officially retired by then. but still came into the offices once or twice a week because he was an old man who just couldn't let go to offer the benefit of his experience and wisdom

Michael Eury edited the Nothing Special