For Julie Schwartz, Obituary by Alan Moore

THE DEAN OF DC COMICS



Julius "Julie" Schwartz (June 19, 1915 – February 8, 2004) was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York. 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.

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.

• Julius Schwartz.com
• Biofile: Julius Schwartz
• Schwartz, Julius: Man of Two Worlds: My Life In Science Fiction and Comics (2000)
• DC Comics Presents tribute comics to Julie Schwartz (2004)

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Limited Collectors' Edition #39: Secret Origins of Super Villains: "The Origin of Terra-Man"

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In late 1972, DC pioneered a new comic format: Tabloid-Sized. The first of these Tabloid-Sized comics also called Treasury Editions appeared before Christmas 1972 and featured Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer in all-new adventures. The 64-page tabloid was priced at $1. The following summer DC returned to the format for a series of bi-monthly specials. The first of these specials featured Shazam and was labeled "Limited Collectors' Edition". DC used a numbering system on the tabloids beginning with #C-21. Like other Giant series of the time such as 100-Page Super Spectaculars, DC used a letter prefix and skipped several numbers. Issues #1-20 do not exist.

TITLE: Limited Collectors' Edition C-39
PUBLICATION DATE: Oct/Nov 1975 (onsale 7/3/1975)
FORMAT: 64 tabloid-sized pages plus covers
COVER PRICE: $1.00
COVER ART: Dick Giordano

* Batman: "The Man Behind the Red Hood" (13 pages)
Bill Finger (Writer), Lew Sayre Schwartz (Penciller), George Roussos (Inker)
From Detective Comics #168, February 1951
* Superboy: "How Luthor Met Superboy" (13 pages)
Jerry Siegel (Writer), Al Plastino (Artist)
From Adventure Comics #271, April 1960
* Flash: "The Coldest Man on Earth" (12 pages)
John Broome (Writer), Carmine Infantino (Penciller), Frank Giacoia (Inker)
From Showcase #8, May/Jun 1957
* Captain Marvel: "The Origin of Sivana" (11 pages)
Bill Parker (Writer), C.C. Beck (Artist)
From Whiz Comics #15, March 1941
* "The Origin of Terra-Man" (7 pages)
Cary Bates (Writer), Dick Dillin (Penciller), Neal Adams (Inker)
From Superman #249, March 1972












Special surprise bonus download: Amazing World of DC Comics #11 focus on super villains.

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Sword of Sorcery Prequel in Wonder Woman #201-202

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Surprise bonus download: Amazing World of DC Comics #15
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I decided to add the other Samuel R. Delaney scripted Wonder Woman:



Download Wonder Woman v1 #203


Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two seminal sword-and-sorcery heroes created by Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) and loosely modelled upon himself and his friend Harry Otto Fischer (1910-1986). They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories.

The stories have been collected in the Swords series:

1. Swords and Deviltry (collection 1970)
1. "Induction" (vignette 1970, first publication)
2. The Snow Women (novella 1970 Fantastic)
3. "The Unholy Grail" (novelette 1962 Fantastic)
4. Ill Met in Lankhmar (novella 1970 F&SF)—telling how Fafhrd and the Mouser met, this story won both a Nebula award and a Hugo award


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A prequel or introduction to the series Sword of Sorcery appears in two issues of Wonder Woman, in the last panel of issue #201 and all of issue #202. In this story, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser team up with Diana Prince (Wonder Woman minus her super-powers), Catwoman, and Prince's kung-fu master, I Ching, to defeat the dimension-spanning wizard Gahwron. Wonder Woman #201 was written by Denny O'Neil while #202-203 were written by Samuel R. Delany. I'll upload Wonder Woman #203, which was was written by Delany, at a later date as it has no Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser or a Sword of Sorcery connection.