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Lew Sayre Schwartz was born on 24 July, 1926 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S., is a Lewis Sayre Schwartz was comic book artist. Discover Lew Sayre Schwartz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 24 July, 1926
Birthday 24 July
Birthplace New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 18 June, 2011
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Nationality United States

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1926

Lewis Sayre Schwartz (July 24, 1926 – June 18, 2011) was an American comic book artist, advertising creator and filmmaker, credited as a ghost artist for Bob Kane on DC Comics Batman from 1946-47 through 1953, and with writer David Vern Reed, as co-creator of the villain Deadshot.

1944

In 1944, Schwartz enlisted in the Navy, and he was trained at Jacksonville as a radar operator and gunner.

After two years service, Schwartz left the Navy and worked for Rod Willard on Scorchy Smith.

1946

In 1946, as well as becoming a founding member of the National Cartoonists Society, Schwartz met Bob Kane on a beach in Miami.

Kane hired him to work on a baseball strip called Dusty Diamond which Kane stated he was developing with Will Eisner.

Although Eisner had no memory of this strip in later years, Eddie Campbell has identified it as being for publication in Tab— The Comic Weekly.

The strip never saw print, as Tab was cancelled after one issue.

1947

In 1947, Schwartz was hired as an artist for the Herald-Tribune comic strip based on The Saint.

However, creative difficulties led to Schwartz leaving the strip to Mike Roy.

After The Saint, Schwartz found a job at King Features Syndicate through Caniff, initially working on preparing Steve Canyon for publication in various sizes.

He also ghosted on the Brick Bradford and Secret Agent X-9 newspaper strips.

Schwartz also began ghosting for Bob Kane.

Advised by his father, Kane had refused to enter into a class action against DC Comics with Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for ownership of their respective characters.

Instead, Kane signed a deal with DC which guaranteed him steady income producing a set number of Batman story pages a year for publication.

Kane then hired other artists to produce this work for him.

Schwartz stated that he likely produced 240 pages a year for Kane over a seven-year period.

Schwartz notes that Kane was "afraid to give anybody else any credit... Bob was scared to death it would be taken away if he acknowledged people that were helping him or even drawing for the strip."

For his own part, Schwartz kept quiet about the assignment due in part to its well-paid nature and in part to shame: "I didn't want to be associated with the books. At that particular time it was beneath my status... or my objectives. Let's put it that way."

1950

During this period he is credited with writer David Vern Reed as co-creator of the villain Deadshot in Batman #59 (July 1950).

1953

Schwartz left Batman in 1953, describing himself as unable and unwilling to draw Batman for Bob Kane again.

He joined a National Cartoonists Society trip to Korea, during the Korean War, assigned to the Eighth Army stationed in Seoul.

Here he entertained the troops doing "chalk talks", inevitably once again drawing Batman day after day.

After Korea, Schwartz found employment in the advertising industry, first with the J. Walter Thompson Company, where he started as a storyboard artist but soon worked his way up through art director to a producer in the film department.

1960

Schwartz was a teacher at the School of Visual Arts during the early 1960s.

Towards the end of the 1960s, Schwartz formed his own company, working as a filmmaker and producing sequences for Sesame Street and network specials.

1961

Alongside Pablo Ferro and Fred Mogubgub, he was cofounder of Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz in 1961, a film company whose work includes the credits to Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

In 1961, he left J. Walker Thompson and entered into partnership with the animators Ferro and Mogubgub, founding Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz, with Schwartz bringing his ad agency experience to the table.

The company received six Clio Awards.

Ferro, Mogubgub and Schwartz produced the credits for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

It was through Schwartz that Kubrick acquired the stock footage of the explosion which ends the movie.

Schwartz sourced and arranged for it to be delivered to London through a contact Caniff had in the USAF.

1981

He produced a film about Milton Caniff in 1981.

2002

He was the recipient of an Inkpot Award in 2002, and four Emmy Awards.

Animator Jed Schwartz of Jed Schwartz Productions is his son and type designer Christian Schwartz is his grandson.

Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Schwartz was of Jewish background.

He was educated at the Swain School of Design.

Already a fan of Chic Young, artist on the Blondie comic strip, it was here he became introduced to the art of Caniff, Noel Sickles and David Stone Martin through a school friend.

After study at Swain, Schwartz went to the Art Students League of New York and became friendly with Caniff, occasionally spending his lunch breaks at Caniff's studio, watching him at work.

Schwartz described Caniff as a father figure: "Well, my father died when I was 12, and Milton became a father figure, in a certain way. He had all the accoutrements... The more I read about him, he was what I wanted to become. The fact he hand-fed me, in answering my mail and being very nice, and that I could call, and he would talk to me on the phone, was exciting."