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Before there was Superman or Batman, before Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison ever picked up a pen, before there were science-fiction fans and conventions, there was Julius Schwartz -- a man who would have an indelible effect on all this and more. One of the inventors of science-fiction fandom in the thirties and publisher of the first SF "fanzine" (one of its early subscribers was Superman's cocreator Jerry Siegel), Julius Schwartz became the world's first SF specialty literary agent while still in his teens. During the "Golden Age" of science fiction, he represented a distinguished roster of authors, including H. P. Lovecraft, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, and Ray Bradbury. But that was only t...
"In 1964, editor Julius Schwartz introduced Bat-fans to an exciting and modernized Batman. Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and their crime-fighting counterparts Batman and Robin conducted their costume casework from a revamped Batcave, a souped-up Batmobile and with a whole new batch of Bat-gadgets in a crime ridden Gotham City. These Bat-tastic tales from Batman and Robin's silver age feature the Dynamic Duo battling some of their most enduring enemies--Penguin, the Riddle, and the Outsider. Batman's energized new look had the crime fighting team employing both detective work and invention to prevail against a devious Rogues Gallery. Batman and his sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder put Gotham City criminal on notice in these Bat-ventures." -- page 4 of cover volume 1.
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How to use a magnifying glass to answer questions about nature and man-made objects. Grades 5-7.
The annual JLA/JSA reaches its epic conclusion as the JSA takes on the newly formed Lawless League--consisting of altered history members of the JLA!