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For the children's-book author of the Scary Stories series, see Alvin Schwartz (children's author)

Alvin Schwartz (born November 17, 1916, in New York City, New York) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, and comic-book writer best known for his Batman and Superman stories, in the latter of which he introduced DC Comics' popular Bizarro World. Alvin Schwartz ( April 25 1927, in Brooklyn New York – March 14 1992 was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as Folklore Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" This article is an abbreviated list of Essayists - individuals notable for writing essays on various topics A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Bizarro is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by DC Comics. He received the industry's 2006 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing.

Schwartz is sometimes confused with another author of the same name, approximate age, and place of birth, even among some booksellers.

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Biography

Early life and career

Alvin Schwartz debuted in comics with an issue of Fairy Tale Parade in 1939. He went on to write extensively for Sheldon Mayer at All-American Publications, and then for National Comics, two of the three companies that would merge to form DC Comics. Sheldon Mayer ( April 1, 1917 - December 21, 1991) was an American Comic book writer artist and editor All-American Publications is one of three American comic book companies that combined to form the modern-day DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comics publishers

Golden Age of comics books

Schwartz wrote his first Batman story in 1942, extending into the Batman newspaper comic strip in August 1944 and the Superman strip two months later. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist The daily Superman Newspaper comic strip began in January 6 1939 and a separate Sunday strip was added on November 5 1939 Through 1952, he scripted for most of the company's newspaper strips. As well, for rival Fawcett Comics, he wrote stories of the hit Superman competitor Captain Marvel. Fawcett Comics, a subsidiary of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful Comics publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s Captain Marvel is a fictional Comic book Superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics.

1950s

Until ending his association with DC in 1958, Schwartz contributed comic-book scripts for such superheroes as Aquaman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, and Green Lantern, such other characters as the Newsboy Legion, Vigilante, Slam Bradley, and Tomahawk, and such comic books as A Date With Judy, Buzzy, and House of Mystery. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do The Newsboy Legion are Fictional characters, a kid gang in the DC Comics Universe. Vigilante is the name used by several fictional characters appearing in DC Comics. Samuel Emerson "Slam" Bradley is a Fictional character that has appeared in various Comic book series published by DC Comics. Tomahawk is a Comic book character whose adventures were published by DC Comics during the 1950's and 1960's in his own comics series The House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series Among Schwartz's enduring contributions to the Superman mythology was written the first tale of Bizarro, chief denizen of an opposite, interdimensional world where "hello" means "goodbye" and citizens did good by doing bad (mischievously in the earliest of stories). Bizarro is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by DC Comics. The character and the eventually expanded concept has entered into wider pop culture being referenced in such mass media as the TV series Seinfeld. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U Seinfeld is an American Situation comedy, or sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5 1989 to May 14 1998 lasting nine seasons

Corporate work

After leaving DC, Schwartz went into corporate market research, helping to develop the techniques of Psychographics, typological identification and others. Market research is the process of systematically gathering recording and analyzing data and information about Customers, Competitors and the Market In the field of Marketing, Demographics, opinion research and social research in general psychographic variables are any attributes relating to personality As research director for Dr. Ernst Dichter's Institute for Motivational Research, he provided strucural and marketing advice to such corporations as General Motors to General Foods. General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post ( October 26, 1854 - He joined the advisory committee of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA is an American Advertising Trade association.

Other writing

Schwartz wrote three novels for Arco Press, one of which, the detective story Sword of Desire, won praise for its takeoff on Reichian orgone therapy, a popular psychotherapeutic technique used during the 1940s and 1950s. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive His novel The Blowtop was published by Dial Press in 1948. The Dial Press was a publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh. Under the title Le Cinglé, it became a best-seller in France.

In 1968, he moved to Canada, where he wrote documentaries and docudramas for the National Film Board of Canada for nearly 20 years, and did a number of economic and social studies for the Canadian government. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality A Docudrama is a Dramatization of actual historical events Generalities Docudramas tend to demonstrate some or most of the following characteristics The National Film Board of Canada (usually National Film Board or NFB) is Canada's public film producer and distributor Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Additionally, Schwartz wrote and lectured on superheroes, and received a Canada Council Grant for a study on religious symbolism in popular culture, using Superman as a springboard.

Later life and career

In 1997, Alvin Schwartz published a metaphysical autobiography, An Unlikely Prophet, that claimed that Superman, as a fictional character known throughout the world had attained the status of a tulpa (in Tibetan Buddhist thought, a kind of autonomous, "real" illusion) and that Schwartz had actually met him in a New York City taxi. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" For the Hydrozoan Genus, see Tulpa (Hydrozoa. Tulpa (Wylie sprul-pa) is a Vajrayana, Bonpo Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of Public transport for a single passenger or small group of passengers typically for a non-shared ride

In the mid-2000s, Schwartz began writing a weekly web column. He lives with his wife in the rural village of Chesterville, about 40 kilometers southeast of Ottawa, Canada. Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality.

Awards

Schwartz, along with writer-editor Harvey Kurtzman was awarded the comic-book field's 2006 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Harvey Kurtzman ( October 3, 1924, Brooklyn New York – February 21, 1993) was a U

Quoting AN UNLIKELY PROPHET

“ My ordinary, everyday self - now that I understood - was finally the key to everything. It was my entree to the powers of the universe. And it was also something else. It was the place where the infinite rested on the finite. ”

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