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Vote: | All I know is, when I did it in the Justice League, the summer issues, they sold many percentage points higher than any other issues of the year. |
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Vote: | Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. |
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Vote: | I don't remember what I did fifty years ago. |
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Vote: | I'm still trying to figure out how I got the idea, if I did, to revive the original Flash after five or six years. |
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Vote: | In fact, he offered me $60 a week. I never thought of mentioning that before. $60 a week was pretty good back in those days. |
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Vote: | Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh? |
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Vote: | She advised me that my main job would be plotting stories and editing them. I would not have to bother with the artwork, which was a relief. |
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Vote: | Shelly knew I was well-versed in pulp magazines, with their strong plots, and that's the type of stories All-American was doing. |
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Vote: | Since Earth-One is where the Flash existed, and Earth-Two had the other super heroes, how about our Earth? There are no super-heroes. |
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Vote: | Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world. |
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Vote: | There had appeared a few stories in science fiction that dealt with alternate Earths, but it was just coincidence. |
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Vote: | Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad. |
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Julius "Julie" Schwartz (June 19, 1915 - February 8, 2004) was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in The Bronx, New York.
In 1932, Schwartz co-published (with Mort Weisinger and Forrest J. Ackerman) Time Traveller one of the first science fiction fanzines. Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency (1934-1944) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H. P. Lovecraft, including some of Bradbury's first published work and Lovecraft's last.
Schwartz helped organize the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939.
In 1944 he became at editor at All-American Comics (which later merged into DC Comics). He recruited Bester to contribute to the company's line of comic books. In the 1950s he oversaw the revival of superheroes such as The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and The Atom, which led to the Silver Age of comic books. This revival has been cited as an inspiration for the transformation of Marvel Comics in the 1960s. The Schwartz-edited line of titles was regarded by many as being more creative and dynamic than other DC titles of the time, notably the Superman line edited by Mort Weisinger.
In the 1960s, Schwartz began editing the Batman titles, helping craft the "new look" Batman which indirectly led to the Batman television series. He also helped writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams come to prominence at DC Comics.
From 1971 to 1985 Schwartz was the editor of the Superman titles, helping to modernize the settings of the books and move them away from "gimmick" stories to stories with more of a character-driven nature.
Schwartz featured as a character in the Ambush Bug titles by Keith Giffen, which he also edited.
Schwartz retired from DC in 1986 after 42 years at the company, but continued to be active in comics and science fiction fandom until shortly before his death. In 2000 be published an autobiography, Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics, co-authored with Brian Thomsen.
In 1998, Dragon*Con chairman Ed Kramer established the Julie Award, bestowed for universal achievement spanning multiple genres, selected each year by an esteemed panel of industry professionals. The inaugural recipient was science fiction and fantasy Grandmaster Ray Bradbury. Additional recipient awards, presented by Schwartz each year, included: Forry Ackerman, Yoshitaka Amano, Alice Cooper, Will Eisner, Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman, Carmine Infantino, Anne McCaffrey, and Jim Steranko.
Schwartz passed away on February 8, 2004, at the age of 88, after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
Although Schwartz has gotten praise for his creative endeavors, some criticisms of his behavior towards women came out after his demise. The Comics Journal printed an article which contained female professionals (including Colleen Doran, Jo Duffy, and Jill Thompson) reporting some disturbing behavior of sexual harassment.
External links * Julius Schwartz .com
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