THE PREVIOUS JULIE THREAD

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I was thinking of using some of the very nice tributes people wrote about Julie here on the board in “But I Digress.” My assumption is that no one will object (they will naturally be fully credited). I don’t need a chorus of “Yea’s.” If anyone has a problem, just drop me an e-mail; otherwise I’ll just figure it’s alright with all concerned.

PAD

17 comments on “THE PREVIOUS JULIE THREAD”

  1. I am in great debt to Julie for the marvelous work he did in revitalizing the Flash in the Silver Age, plus the Green Lantern. He was a man with a lot of talent, even in sci-fi, and his work at DC is something to cherish for years to come.

  5. What in the hëll? I come back to see what people write about Julie Schwartz, and I see something that seems the blog eguivalent of an infomercial. What next? Is someone going to try to sell that hair people spray paint onto their heads and set a car on fire? How Crass.

    JHL

  6. I saw Julie once at a Con in Michigan. He was sitting next to Curt Swan (I’d like to think he is now too), as he signed my History of the DC Universe hardback, he wondered why everyone saved these books and didn’t just throw them out. His hand has touched so many things that I have read over and over again and filled my childhood, I think it showed what a gift he had that it came across without much effort or thought. It was just what he was here to do.

  7. That’s a great idea, PAD. I don’t know if you saw it, but I had mentioned a story about meeting Mr. Schwartz at a Mar-Con several years ago here back when you announced he was recovering a week or so ago. I see that the Buyer’s Guide had asked people to send in stories as well this week, and I sent that story to them.

    Just thought I would mention it in case there’s a (rather vague) chance of duplication here. Thanks.

  8. Since he actually knows something about comic books for a “civilian,” I thought that Howard Stern might have something insightful to say about Mr. Schwartz having shuffled off this mortal coil. Instead, their conversation degenerated into a debate over whether Capt. America was or was not in the JLA. As big a Stern fan as I am, my respect for the King of All Media dropped a half-notch over non-comments like that. Sigh.

  9. unfortunately, I think someone somewhere has written a computer program that searches the web for blogs and automatically makes comments. I’ve seen these infomercial comments popping up elsewhere. Maybe some blogging systems are more susceptible than others…I don’t know.

  11. Not having met the man personally, most of what I could say as a comic book fan I wrote when the Comic Buyer’s Guide was soliticing comments for what was to be their “get well soon Julie” issue.

    If you can use what little I did post here Sunday, feel free.

    But I would like to take a moment and say “Goodbye Mr. Schwartz. The four color realm you helped brighten is a little dimmer today, but your light shall always shine.”

    Thanks for the space Peter.

  12. You are more than welcome to use my comment about Julie creating new stories with othe creators who have gone on before him. I would be flattered if you did so. You should know, though, that I said the same thing in a letter to CBG, so it may also appear under my name.

  13. Re: The previous Julius Schwartz Blog entry.

    I should make a retraction of sorts. I was wrong when I stated that Mr. Schwartz never had an influnce on my life. I was unaware that he was such a strong force in the world of comics, without whom some of the stories that touched me most would be entirely different or non-existant.

    For that Mr. Schwartz has my eternal gratitude.

    Salutations,

    Mitch

  14. My Julie Schwartz story?

    I met him at MarCon a few years ago. He was doing a panel on Friday night, his flight was late, etc, etc, by he showed up on time, anyway. And the few of us there to listen to him, & talk with him, had a lot of fun.

    He will be missed.

  15. It is somewhtat ironic that today I bought, with great happines, the Adam Strange Archive, then heard on Howard Stern that Julie has passed away. Just wanted to say thanks for planting those seeds of imagination in me those may years ago.

  16. Just Imagine a man riding a beam of light to a princess far far away on a Strange Adventure on another world–yet another Mystery In Space to solve! Just Imagine an editor with the talent to hire the best writers and artists of their time and challenging them to “Be Original” and respecting his readers’ intelligence by not writing down to them. Just Imagine a man who knew how important to a fictional universe its collective fandom is and helped encourage his readership to talk to each other and build a community by providing a place in their favprite comics for them.

    Fortunately, we didn’t have to imagine him–Godspeed our curmungeonly lovable Comics Grandfather, Julie Schwartz!

  17. I wrote this up somewhere but don’t think it was here. Here’s the short version.

    About 10 years, there was an academic conference at Bowling Green (when I was a grad student there) on “The Atomic Age.” I wrote a paper on DC’s revival of Golden Age heroes and how they had been “scienced up” by Julie, Gardner Fox and others.

    Flash forward a few years, I gave the same paper at the Comics Arts Conference in SD for Pete Coogan and Randy Duncan. So, I had a hard copy on me and one day during the con, I’m walking through artist’s alley and there’s Julie. So I stop, introduce myself and give him a copy, figuring he might get a kick out of it.

    A few months later, I get an envelope from DC with Julie’s name on it. I open it up to find that Julie had returned the paper and “graded it.” And, to my eternal relief, gave me an A.

    I later republished the article in the first issue of my magazine, with a forward saying that Julie’s grade was what, in the end, made the paper worth doing all those years before.

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