Back in September, I posted a note about Paul Levitz's departure from his position as President & Publisher at DC Comics, and in it, I mentioned seeing a quote from him, early in his career, to the effect that he didn't intend to make comics his career, but was just working in the field as a way to pay for college.

A number of people wrote in to suggest sources for that quote, and I discussed a couple of them here.

Since then, a couple more people have pointed me at an entry on Scott Edelman's fine site, noting another possible source for my memory—in this case, The Comic Reader #98, back in 1973.

That's very, very much like the quote I remember, so that may well be it. Except that I wasn't even reading comics yet in 1973, didn't start reading The Comic Reader until 1976 or 1977, and have never seen that issue.

But maybe it was quoted somewhere later on, and I saw it there.

In any case, enough has been turned up that I think we can put this one to rest. While I may never know exactly where I saw it, Paul said something like it for print at least a couple of times. We can all be glad he changed his mind along the way.