SCHWARTZ, AL |
| Source (some data) |
| | AL SCHWARTZ | NULL |
| Name and vital stats |
| | SCHWARTZ, ALVIN [1916- ] (writer) | NULL |
| Biographical |
| | Moved to Canada | NULL |
| Pen names |
| | ROBERT W. TRACY [in novels]; ALVIN SCHWARTZ (used as a house name by other writers) | NULL |
| | VERNON WOODRUM [in slicks and comics] | NULL |
| Education |
| | City College of New York | NULL |
| Print Media (non-comics) |
| | Co-publisher: Magazine: 1933-34 Mosaic (small literary magazine) | > 33 34 |
| | Editor: Publishing company: Tudor Publishing [literary and art works plus marketing duties] 2 years | NULL |
| | Manager: Group Research: D'Arcy Advertising [U.S.] 2 years | NULL |
| | Writer: Articles: | NULL |
| | Writer: Articles: The American Scholar; Journal of Marketing; Progressive Grocer; American Imago; Children's Literature; Politics | NULL |
| | Writer: Column: World Famous Comics page [weekly] 1999-2000 [www.wfcomics.com] | > 99 2000 |
| | Writer: Novels: 1948-52/73 The Blowtop '48 [reprint in Paris '50]; Jan 48 [published in France as Le Cingle] '50 best seller | > 48 49 50 51 52 73 |
| | Writer: Novels: 1948-52/73 Three mysteries for Argo '52; No Such Warriors '73 [Canada] | > 48 49 50 51 52 73 |
| | Writer: Poetry in literary journals | NULL |
| | Writer: Pulps: for Street and Smith | NULL |
| | Writer: Short stories: Conde Nast magazines [pre-WW-2] US and U.K. | NULL |
| Animation: Innovation |
| | Writer: Canada's National Research Council | NULL |
| Performing Arts |
| | Co-writer: Radio: Mark Trail [with Bill Finger] | NULL |
| | Writer: Film: 30 documentaries | NULL |
| | Writer: Film: Animated, and docu-dramas for major drug companies | NULL |
| | Writer: Film: Semi-animated for DND: training film on ship maintainance and management | NULL |
| | Writer: Film: The Consuming Impulse | NULL |
| | Writer: Film: The Humback | NULL |
| | Writer: Film: Two feature films for National Film Board of Canada | NULL |
| | Writer: Films: Three for famous Czech director, Jirii Weiss [Canada] | NULL |
| | Writer: Lyrics and story [3-record set. 78 rpm]: Two Superman operettas | NULL |
| | Writer: Radio: European adventure | NULL |
| | Writer: TV: Warner News in early-1950s | > 50 51 52 53 |
| Commercial Art & Design |
| | Director: Marketing and Creative Design: Advertising Associates [Montreal] | NULL |
| Other career notes |
| | Consultant: Direct Mail : Human Factors Analysis [his own think tank] | NULL |
| | Consultant: Various Canadian government agencies | NULL |
| | Director: Market Research: Rueben H. Donnelley Corp [a marketing arm of Dunn and Bradstreet] 1963-65 | > 63 64 65 |
| | Director: Research Department: The Institute for Motivational Communications | NULL |
| | Organizer: Steel Workers and Textile Workers Organizing Committee [when still in college] | NULL |
| | Teacher: Lectures on pop culture: Sir George University [Montreal]; University of Connecticut [Storrs] | NULL |
| Honors |
| | Pretigious Canada Council Grant for study of religious symbolism in popular culture | NULL |
| Syndication |
| | BATMAN AND ROBIN [daily] (wr/) 1944-46 for McClure Syndicate | > 44 45 46 |
| | BATMAN AND ROBIN [Sunday] (wr/) 1945-46 eight of 15 continuities; for McClure Syndicate | > 45 46 |
| | SUPERMAN [daily / Sunday] (wr/) 1945-58 for McClure Syndicate | > 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 |
| Creator |
| | BIZARRO [in SUPERMAN] 1958 | 58 |
| Promotional comics |
| | SUPERMAN IN THE GREAT CLEVELAND FIRE (wr/) 1948 for hospital fund | > 48 |
| KITCHEN SINK PRESS |
| | BATMAN: THE DAILIES~ (wr/) 1990-91 graphic album reprint | > 90 91 |
| CROWN PUBLISHERS |
| | BATMAN FROM THE 30s TO THE 70s~ (wr/) 1971 graphic album reprint | > 71 |
| | SECRET ORIGINS OF THE SUPER DC HEROES~ (wr/) 1976 graphic album with reprint of Batman | > 76 |
| DC COMICS |
| | ALFRED (wr/) mid-1940s | > 44 45 46 |
| | BATMAN AND ROBIN (wr/) 1943-46/53-54 | > 43 44 45 46 53 54 |
| | BATMAN FROM THE 1930s TO THE 1970s~ (wr/) 1971 graphic album reprint | > 71 |
| | BUZZY (wr/) 1944-46 | > 44 45 46 |
| | CONGO BILL (wr/) 1946 | > 46 |
| | DATE WITH JUDY (wr/) 1947 | > 47 |
| | Filler (wr/) 1950s | > 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 |
| | FLASH (wr/) c1942 | > 42 |
| | FOLEY OF THE FIGHTING 5th (wr/) 1951 | > 51 |
| | GREEN ARROW (wr/) c1942 | > 42 |
| | GREEN LANTERN (wr/) | NULL |
| | HAYFOOT HENRY (wr/) 1946-48 | > 46 47 48 |
| | HOUSE OF MYSTERY~ (wr/) | NULL |
| | INDIAN BOY WHO TURNED INTO A STAR, THE (wr/) 1952 | > 52 |
| | JIMMY OLSEN (wr/) 1958-59 | > 58 59 |
| | JIMMY WAKELY~ (wr/) 1952 | > 52 |
| | LOIS LANE (wr/) 1958-59 | > 58 59 |
| | MR. TERRIFIC (wr/) c1942 | > 42 |
| | MY GREATEST ADVENTURE~ (wr/) 1958 | > 58 |
| | NEWSBOY LEGION AND THE GUARDIAN (wr/) c1942 | > 42 |
| | SUPERBOY (wr/) 1950-51/56-58 | > 50 51 56 57 58 |
| | SUPERMAN (wr/) 1944-52/55-59 | > 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 55 56 57 58 59 |
| | SUPERMAN AND BATMAN & ROBIN (wr/) 1954 | > 54 |
| | TOMAHAWK (wr/) c1949-c51 | > 49 50 51 |
| | VIGILANTE, THE (wr/) 1943/48 | > 43 48 |
| | WONDER WOMAN (wr/) c1946 two stories | > 46 |
| DELL PUBLICATIONS |
| | FAIRY TALE PARADE~ (wr/) 1941 | > 41 |
| FAWCETT COMICS |
| | CAPTAIN MARVEL (wr/) 1940s for editor Lunne Perkins | > 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 |
| SIGNET BOOKS |
| | BATMAN~ (wr/) 1966 paperback reprint | > 66 |