Schwartz helped organize the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. Lovecraft, including some of Bradbury's first published work and Lovecraft's last.

Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H. Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency (1934–1944) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Stanley G. Ackerman) Time Traveller, one of the first science fiction fanzines. In 1932, Schwartz co-published (with Mort Weisinger and Forrest J. He graduated at age seventeen from Theodore Roosevelt High School in The Bronx. Julius and his parents resided at 817 Cauldwell Avenue in the Bronx. He was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1997.īorn on June 19, 1915, to Romanian-Jewish parents Joseph and Bertha who emigrated from a small town outside Bucharest, Romania. He is best known as a longtime editor at DC Comics, where at various times he was primary editor over the company's flagship superheroes, Superman and Batman. Julius ' Julie' Schwartz ( / ʃ w ɔːr t s/ J– February 8, 2004) was an American comic book editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. Julius Schwartz, editor for DC Comics at the San Diego Comic-Con International in 2002Įditor, publisher, writer, literary agent

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