Marie Javins and Michele Wells have been named as interim replacements following the departure of DC Comics Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras, who was among those let go by the company following the WarnerMedia layoffs earlier this week.

After assuring that comics were still "very much" a part of the company's future -- albeit with a smaller slate -- DC Publisher Jim Lee opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about Javins and Wells being named interim Editors-in-Chief. Prior to this development, Javins was in charge of digital strategy at DC, whereas Wells was in charge of the publisher's YA imprint.

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"We thought it would be a great pairing to bring them together to help draft and organize the content we're doing along these lines," Lee said. "Across digital, across global, we want to make sure we have diversity and inclusivity, and making it in a way that we have authenticity to the storytelling that we're doing.

"It's really about consolidating all of our efforts and having every editors involved in all these directives and also organizing, broadly speaking, in content that is for kids 6 to 11 and then 12 to 45," he continued. "It's about consolidating format and oversight to a smaller, more concentrated editorial group." It was at this point that Lee also debunked reports that he was no longer Publisher at DC.

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