12 Facts About Curt Swan

Douglas Curtis Swan was an American comics artist.

The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans call the Bronze Age of Comic Books, Swan produced hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Curt Swan, whose Swedish grandmother had shortened and Americanized the original family name of Svensson, was born in Minneapolis, the youngest of five children.

Father John Curt Swan worked for the railroads; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson had worked in a local hospital.

Many comics of the 1940s and 1950s lacked contributor credits, but research shows that Curt Swan began pencilling the Superboy series with its fifth issue in 1949.

Curt Swan always felt that his breakthrough came when he was assigned the art duties on Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen, in 1954.

Curt Swan didn't take to line editor Mort Weisinger's controlling style.

Around 1954, Curt Swan unsuccessfully pitched an original comic strip for newspaper syndication.

Curt Swan who had drawn Superman in Action, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Superman, and World's Finest, and drew Superboy in Adventure Comics, who was the quintessential Superman artist of the 1960s, '70s and '80s.

Curt Swan became just another victim of the 1980s implosion.

Helene Curt Swan died at the age of 91 on January 27,2012.

I'd like to have asked him how much [Curt Swan] identified with Superman, how much of himself he put in there.