Alvin Schwartz (1916-2011) wrote Superman and Batman strips as well as many other DC comics during the 1940s and '50s. In 2006 he received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. He was the author of An Unlikely Prophet and The Blowtop, which was described by the New York Times as the first conscious existentialist novel in America. He also wrote a number of screenplays and some thirty docudramas for the National Film Board of Canada.
“Alvin Schwartz is clearly one of the most amazing people ever to
work in--maybe even out of--the nutty field of comic books.
Channeling first Superman, then Batman, into an astonishing inner
life and an equally astounding outer one, Alvin was living his life
as a graphic novel before the term ever existed. Quite fitting for
this unique talent and singular human being, who started out
writing Fairy Tale Parade and made his four-color exit at stage
left with Bizarro!”
*Roy Thomas, author of Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe and
longtime writer and editor at Marvel an*
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