Janice Race

Janice Race is an American former comic book editor best known for her work at DC Comics in the 1980s.

Biography Raised in The Bronx, Race earned a B.S. in speech pathology and audiology from the College of City University. She was employed by DC Comics in the 1980s and had worked as a textbook editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich before entering the comics industry.

She began working at DC in late 1983 and served as an Associate Editor for Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway Race was a frequent collaborator with writer Greg Potter and edited his Jemm, Son of Saturn limited series and his Me & Joe Priest graphic novel. She and Potter spent several months working on new concepts for the mid-1980s relaunch of Wonder Woman, before being joined by writer/artist George Pérez.

Race left DC before the first issue of the new series was published to return to book publishing and was replaced by Karen Berger. Bob Rozakis, the Executive Director of Production at DC Comics in the 1980s, has stated that Race left DC after being told of the low sales on the Jemm, Son of Saturn series.