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Dave the Wonder Boy said:
I always thought Julius Schwartz was a hard-nosed grouch after reading this story, and was very pleasantly surprised when I met him at the 1987 San Diego Comic Con, to see what a pleasant and soft-spoken guy he is.
Or was, until he recently passed away a month or two ago.



I think writers saw him as a grouch because he actually EDITed their stories, forcing them to revise them, plug plot holes and pace them correctly.

We could use a few more editors like him today.

Instead of the starfuckers we now have, who seem to exist only to throw money at "big names" and lure them into exclusive contracts...under which they promptly lose all ability to tell a cohesively plotted, correctly paced story (Loeb and Bendis, I'm talking to YOU).