Geoffrey Johns is an American comic book writer, screenwriter and film and television producer. He served as the President and Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment from 2016 to 2018. His most notable work has used the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, and Superman. In 2018, he stepped down from his executive role at DC Entertainment to open a production company, Mad Ghost Productions.
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Geoffrey Johns is an American comic book writer, screenwriter and film and television producer. He served as the President and Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment from 2016 to 2018 after his initial appointment as CCO in 2010. His most notable work has used the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, and Superman. In 2018, he stepped down from his executive role at DC Entertainment to open a production company, Mad Ghost Productions, to focus on writing and producing film, television and comic book titles based on DC properties. In film, he was a producer on Green Lantern and Justice League, and co-wrote the story for Aquaman and the screenplay for Wonder Woman 1984. He co-developed the TV series The Flash and Titans, and created the television series Stargirl. His other work in television includes writing andproducing various episodes of Blade, Smallville, and Arrow. Johns is of half Lebanese ancestry and grew up in the suburbs of Grosse Pointe and Clarkston. He studied media arts, screenwriting, film production and film theory at Michigan State University. He is the son of Barbara and Fred Johns, and has a brother and a sister, both of whom are also comic book writers and screenwriters. He has two children, a daughter and a son-in-law. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two sons.
He also has two step-children, a son and a step-daughter, who live in New York City, and a daughter who lives in San Diego, California. Johns has a son, John, who is also a comic-book writer and screenwriter. He was the writer of the Green Lantern: Infinite Crisis limited series and subsequent Green Lantern mini-series. Johns was responsible for the return of Hal Jordan in 2005 as Green Lantern in Green Lantern #1–4. He then reunited with Richard Donner on the Son Son storyline in Action Comics with his former assistant on the former Action Comics series, Kurt Busiek. In 2006, Johns was co-plotting the weekly series 52–2007 weekly series The 52. In 2008, Johns co-writing the weeklyseries 52– 2007 weekly series New 52. He wrote the weekly Superman series with Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Greg Rucksa on the 2006 weekly series Action Comics. In 2010, Johns wrote the series 52-52. In 2011, he co-written the weekly Batman series New Batman #1-4. In 2012, Johns became the regular writer on The Flash ongoing series with issue 164. His run concluded with #225. In 2013, he wrote The Avengers vol. 3 #57–76 and Avengers Icons: The Vision: The Vision 1–4, 1–2, 1-3, and 4-5. In 2014, Johns penned the weekly superhero series The Avengers: The New Avengers #57-4, 5-6, 6-7, and 6-8.
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