There was an editor of Atlas/Seaboard Comics in 1974 name Larry Lieber.
 Finding marketable ideas and presenting them to appropriate authors are the responsibilities of a sponsoring editor
== Scholarly books and journals ==Within the publishing environment, editors of scholarly books are of three main types, each with particular responsibilities:Acquisitions editor (or commissioning editor in Britain), who contracts with the author to produce the copyProject editor or production editor, who sees the copy through its stages from manuscript to bound book and usually assumes most of the budget and schedule responsibilitiesCopy editor or manuscript editor, who prepares the copy for conversion into printed form

