  alvin schwartz (november 17, 1916 â october 28, 2011) was an american comic-book writer best known for his batman and superman stories. he was also a novelist, poet, and essayist. ==biography== ===early life and career=== alvin schwartz debuted in comics with an issue of fairy tale parade in 1939. he then wrote extensively for sheldon mayer at all-american publications and then for national comics, two of the three companies which merged to form dc comics. ===golden age of comics books=== schwartz wrote his first batman story in 1942, expanding into the batman newspaper comic strip in august 1944 and the superman strip two months later. through 1952, he scripted for most of the company's newspaper strips. for rival fawcett comics, he wrote stories for superman's chief competitor captain marvel. ===1950s=== until ending his association with dc in 1958, schwartz contributed comic-book scripts for such superheroes as aquaman, wonder woman, the flash, green lantern, the newsboy legion, vigilante, slam bradley, and tomahawk. he also wrote comic books such as a date with judy, buzzy, and house of mystery. among schwartz's contributions to superman was writing the first tale of bizarro, denizen of an opposite, interdimensional world where "hello" means "goodbye", and citizens do good by doing bad. he wrote world's finest comics #71 (july 1954), the issue which began featuring superman and batman in the same story together.{{cite comic| writer= schwartz, alvin| penciller= swan, curt| inker= kaye, stan| story= batman - double for superman!| title= [
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