Julius Schwartz

Julius Schwartz (19 June 1915 – 8 February 2004) was the literary agent for H. P. Lovecraft and other notable science fiction writers. An enthusiastic science fiction fan, Schwartz went on to have a prominent career as an editor for DC Comics.
Schwartz was born in 1915 in the Bronx, New York City, the child of Jewish Romanian immigrants. In 1932, he founded the fanzine Time Traveller with Forrest J. Ackerman and Mort Weisinger, one of the first science fiction fan publications. He helped to organize the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939.
Schwartz launched the Solar Sales Service, a literary agency, in 1934; the business lasted until 1944. In addition to Lovecraft, his clients included Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Albert Bester and Stanley Weinbaum. Schwartz sold two of Lovecraft's stories, At the Mountains of Madness and "The Shadow Out of Time", to Astounding Stories. Schwartz also arranged for Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Abraham Merritt and C.L. Moore to write the collaborative story "The Challenge from Beyond" in 1935.
In an interview with the fanzine Alter Ego, Schwartz admitted: "I was not a devout Lovecraft fan. I couldn't read them fast enough. I was a fast reader, and you couldn't read Lovecraft fast!" He said he preferred Lovecraft's shorter fiction, like "The Rats in the Walls" and "Pickman's Model".Alter Ego Vol 3 No. 7, "All-Schwartz Comics: A Conversation With Editorial Legend Julius Schwartz", by Roy Thomas 
Schwartz's client Alfred Bester, who was writing the Green Lantern book for All-American comics, recommended that Schwartz try to get a job there. He was hired, and went on to have a long career at DC comics, which All-American was folded into. In the late 1950s and early '60s, he revived characters like the Flash and Hawkman, and came up with the concept of the Justice League of America. He is credited with helping to return Batman to his gritty origins starting in the mid-1960s. He's been called the "co-creator of the DC Universe".ComicBookHistorians.com, "Julius Schwartz--Co-Creator of the DC Universe", by Alex Grand, November 29, 2017
After his death in 2004, several female comic book figures came forward to describe Schwartz's chronic record of sexual harassment.Paging Dr. Nerdlove, "Nerds and Male Privilege: Tess Fowler and Comic Harassment", by Dr. Nerdlove, November 15, 2013
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Category:Lovecraft's Correspondents
Category:Deceased (Real World)