JACK LIEBOWITZ

Jack Liebowitz, born on October 10, 1900, was an accountant and cofounder of National Allied Publications which became DC Comics. He was a founding member of TBE, and Rabbi Davidson bought his daughter Linda Stillman’s house in Kings Point, according to congregant Gloria Landsberg. His younger daughter, Joan Levy, joined TBE shortly after his death at 100 and still lives in Great Neck. He stayed at the forefront of new technologies and entertainment media, helping oversee Superman’s transition to movie serials, radio, theatrical animated shorts and brought the syndicated series Adventures of Superman to television. When DC Comics went public in 1961 and became known as National Periodical Publications, he remained president of what was America’s foremost comics publisher. Kinney National Services acquired the company six years later, and the following year bought Warner Bros. to form Warner Communications, of which he was an active member of the board into his 90s. A founding trustee of Long Island Jewish Hospital, later renamed North Shore–LIJ, he served on the board for more than 50 years and was the medical center’s second president. He was also a trustee for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in New York.