Posted: July 28, 1999 at 16:24:09: by Rodrigo Baeza
: OK, this message is a quick "kick my own butt" posting. At Dragon Con this year in Atlanta, one of the guests was a guy named Julius Schwartz. I kept seeing him walking around the con, and wondered who he was. He was at one of the Batman retrospectives, and I had the opportunity to talk to him several times but didn't take the time since I had no idea who he was or why he was at the con. I just figured he had something to do with comics. (And boy, he did!) But about a week after the con, I was looking at my annotated HPL book, and noticed that Lovecraft had used an agent to get this story sold. A young agent named "Julius Schwartz." Schwartz was an agent in the 30's, and started working in the
comics industry the next decade. He worked at DC comics,
editing some of their science-fiction titles ("Mystery in
Space") and later some of their best-known characters: Batman
and Superman. He's very well known in the comics industry, and goes
frequently to conventions. Rodrigo
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