Julius Schwartz Archives

Strange Adventures #8 (DC, 1951) is not the first DC comic book that featured a gorilla cover.  That distinction belongs to Action Comics #6 (DC, 1938).  But Strange Adventures #8 is widely cited as the cover that sparked the gorilla cover mandate at the publisher.  The cover of that issue by Win Mortimer is based[...]

So close, in fact, that a well-known DC Comics character is named after him. Raymond Palmer was the secret identity of the Silver Age version of diminutive DC Comics hero The Atom, created by Gardner Fox, Gil Kane, and Julius Schwartz The real-life Raymond Palmer was also a longtime friend of DC Comics editors and writers[...]

At the DC Comics co-publisher "Sunday Conversation" panel at WonderCon today, Dan DiDio shared a story with Jimmy Palmiotti and Scott Snyder about advice

Had he continued to work in mainstream comics one can only imagine what else he would have come up with. Julius Schwartz – Having started his career working with the likes of Forest J Ackerman and H P Lovecraft, Schwartz was the perfect editor to bring about DC Comics second age of superheroes He kept control[...]