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17, 1996)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American <a href="/wiki/Comics_artist" class="mw-redirect" title="Comics artist">comics artist</a>. The artist most associated with <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a> during the period fans call the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_of_Comic_Books" title="Bronze Age of Comic Books">Bronze Age of Comic Books</a>, Swan produced hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Curt Swan was born in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a><sup id="cite_ref-Aamodt_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aamodt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on February 17, 1920,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the youngest of five children. Swan's <a href="/wiki/Swedes" title="Swedes">Swedish</a> grandmother had shortened and Americanized the original family name of Svensson.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Father John Swan worked for the <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport" title="Rail transport">railroads</a>; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson<sup id="cite_ref-marriage_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marriage-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had worked in a local hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a boy, Swan's given name – Douglas – was shortened to "Doug," and, disliking the phonetic similarity to "Dog," Swan thereafter reversed the order of his given names and went by "Curtis Douglas," rather than "Douglas Curtis."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having enlisted in Minnesota's National Guard's 135th Regiment, <a href="/wiki/34th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="34th Infantry Division (United States)">34th Division</a> in 1940, Swan was sent to Europe when the "federalized" division was shipped initially to Northern Ireland and Scotland. While his comrades in the 34th eventually went into combat in North Africa and Italy, Swan spent most of World War II working as an artist for the G.I. magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Stars_and_Stripes_(newspaper)" title="Stars and Stripes (newspaper)">Stars and Stripes</a></i>. While at <i>Stars and Stripes</i>, Swan met writer <a href="/wiki/France_Herron" title="France Herron">France Herron</a>, who eventually directed him to <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this period Swan married the former Helene Brickley, whom he had met at a dance at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Dix" title="Fort Dix">Fort Dix</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>, and who was stationed near him in Paris in 1944 as a <a href="/wiki/Red_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Red Cross">Red Cross</a> worker; they were married in Paris in April 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after returning to civilian life in 1945, he moved from Minnesota to New Jersey and began working for <a href="/wiki/DC_Comics" title="DC Comics">DC Comics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GCD_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GCD-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from a few months of night classes at the <a href="/wiki/Pratt_Institute" title="Pratt Institute">Pratt Institute</a> under the <a href="/wiki/G.I._Bill" title="G.I. Bill">G.I. Bill</a>, Swan was an entirely self-taught artist.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a stint on <i><a href="/wiki/Boy_Commandos" title="Boy Commandos">Boy Commandos</a></i> he began to just pencil pages, leaving the inking to others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEury200660–61_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEury200660–61-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Superman">Superman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Superman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Adventure296.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Adventure296.png/200px-Adventure296.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Adventure296.png 1.5x" data-file-width="263" data-file-height="379" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Adventure_Comics" title="Adventure Comics">Adventure Comics</a></i> #296 (May 1962), cover art by Swan, inks by <a href="/wiki/George_Klein_(comics)" title="George Klein (comics)">George Klein</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Initially, Swan drew many different features, including "<a href="/wiki/Tommy_Tomorrow" title="Tommy Tomorrow">Tommy Tomorrow</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Gangbusters" class="mw-redirect" title="Gangbusters">Gangbusters</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-GCD_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GCD-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but slowly he began gravitating towards the <a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a> line of books. His first job pencilling the iconic character was for <i><a href="/wiki/Superman_(comic_book)" title="Superman (comic book)">Superman</a></i> #51 (March–April 1948).<sup id="cite_ref-Gravett_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gravett-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many comics of the 1940s and 1950s lacked contributor credits, but research shows that Swan began pencilling the <i><a href="/wiki/Superboy_(comic_book)" title="Superboy (comic book)">Superboy</a></i> series with its fifth issue in 1949.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He drew the first comics meeting of Superman and <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> in <i>Superman</i> #76 (May–June 1952).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two heroes began teaming on a regular basis in <i><a href="/wiki/World%27s_Finest_Comics" title="World's Finest Comics">World's Finest Comics</a></i> #71 (July–August 1954) in a story which was also drawn by Swan.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Swan always felt that his breakthrough came when he was assigned the art duties on <i><a href="/wiki/Superman%27s_Pal,_Jimmy_Olsen" class="mw-redirect" title="Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen">Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen</a></i>, in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Swan didn't take to line editor <a href="/wiki/Mort_Weisinger" title="Mort Weisinger">Mort Weisinger</a>'s controlling style. Swan discussed this period in an interview: "I was getting terrible migraine headaches and had these verbal battles with Mort. So it was emotional, physical. It just drained me and I thought I'd better get out of here before I go whacko." After leaving comics for the advertising world in 1951, Swan soon returned, for DC's higher paychecks. And as biographer Eddy Zeno notes, "The headaches went away after [Swan] gained Weisinger's respect by standing up to him."<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Around 1954, Swan unsuccessfully pitched an original <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a> for newspaper syndication. Called <i>Yellow Hair</i>, it was about a blond boy raised by <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A couple of years later, starting with the episode of June 18, 1956, Swan drew the <i>Superman</i> daily newspaper <a href="/wiki/Superman_(comic_strip)" title="Superman (comic strip)">comic strip</a>, which he continued on until November 12, 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the view of comics historian <a href="/wiki/Les_Daniels" title="Les Daniels">Les Daniels</a>, Swan became the definitive artist of Superman in the early 1960s with a "new look" to the character that replaced <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Boring" title="Wayne Boring">Wayne Boring</a>'s version.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Composite_Superman" title="Composite Superman">Composite Superman</a> was co-created by Swan and <a href="/wiki/Edmond_Hamilton" title="Edmond Hamilton">Edmond Hamilton</a> in <i>World's Finest Comics</i> #142 (June 1964).<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Swan and writer <a href="/wiki/Jim_Shooter" title="Jim Shooter">Jim Shooter</a> crafted the story "Superman's Race with the Flash!" in <i>Superman</i> #199 (August 1967) which featured the first race between the <a href="/wiki/Flash_(Barry_Allen)" title="Flash (Barry Allen)">Flash</a> and Superman, two characters known for their <a href="/wiki/Speedster_(fiction)" title="Speedster (fiction)">super-speed powers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the years, Swan was a remarkably consistent and prolific artist, often illustrating two or more titles per month. Swan remained as artist of <i>Superman</i> when <a href="/wiki/Julius_Schwartz" title="Julius Schwartz">Julius Schwartz</a> became the editor of the title with issue #233 (January 1971), and writer <a href="/wiki/Denny_O%27Neil" class="mw-redirect" title="Denny O'Neil">Denny O'Neil</a> streamlined the Superman mythos, starting with the elimination of <a href="/wiki/Kryptonite" title="Kryptonite">Kryptonite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among Swan's contributions to the Superman mythos, he and writer <a href="/wiki/Cary_Bates" title="Cary Bates">Cary Bates</a> co-created the <a href="/wiki/Supervillain" title="Supervillain">supervillains</a> <a href="/wiki/Terra-Man" title="Terra-Man">Terra-Man</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 1970s version of the <a href="/wiki/Toyman#Jack_Nimball" title="Toyman">Toyman</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the <a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">superhero</a> <a href="/wiki/Vartox" title="Vartox">Vartox</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Writer <a href="/wiki/Martin_Pasko" title="Martin Pasko">Martin Pasko</a> and Swan created the <a href="/wiki/Carl_Draper" class="mw-redirect" title="Carl Draper">Master Jailer</a> character in <i>Superman</i> #331 (January 1979).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life_and_career">Later life and career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Later life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Superman423.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/Superman423.jpg/200px-Superman423.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="302" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/Superman423.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="257" data-file-height="388" /></a><figcaption>Swan's cover for <i><a href="/wiki/Superman_(comic_book)" title="Superman (comic book)">Superman</a></i> #423 (Sept. 1986), the first half of "<a href="/wiki/Whatever_Happened_to_the_Man_of_Tomorrow%3F" class="mw-redirect" title="Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?">Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?</a>"</figcaption></figure> <p>After DC's 1985 12-issue <a href="/wiki/Limited_series_(comics)" title="Limited series (comics)">limited series</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths" title="Crisis on Infinite Earths">Crisis on Infinite Earths</a></i> and with the impending 1986 revision of Superman by writer/artist <a href="/wiki/John_Byrne_(comics)" title="John Byrne (comics)">John Byrne</a>, Swan was released from his duties on the Superman comics. Critic Wallace Harrington summed up Swan's dismissal this way: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>... the most striking thing that DC did was to completely turn their back on the one man that had defined Superman for three decades ... They closed the door and turned out the lights on the creator that had defined their whole line. With no real thanks, no pomp nor circumstance, DC simply relieved Curt of his artistic duties on Superman. Curt Swan who had drawn Superman in <i>Action</i>, <i>Lois Lane</i>, <i>Jimmy Olsen</i>, <i>Superman</i>, and <i>World's Finest</i>, and drew Superboy in <i>Adventure Comics</i>, who was the quintessential Superman artist of the 1960s, '70s and '80s. He became just another victim of the 1980s implosion. Gone.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Swan's last work as regular artist on Superman was the non-canonical 1986 story "<a href="/wiki/Superman:_Whatever_Happened_to_the_Man_of_Tomorrow%3F" title="Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?">Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?</a>", written by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After this, Swan continued to do occasional minor projects for DC, including the artwork of what is thought to be one of the rarest Superman comics ever published, titled "This Island Bradman" (written by <a href="/wiki/David_P._Levin" title="David P. Levin">David P. Levin</a>), a comic book that was privately commissioned in 1988 by real estate tycoon Godfrey Bradman as a Bar Mitzvah gift for his son,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as an <a href="/wiki/Aquaman" title="Aquaman">Aquaman</a> limited series and special in 1989,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and various returns on illustrating Superman, including the prestige format graphic novel one-shot <i>Superman: The Earth Stealers</i> in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1995, Swan did four illustrations for <i><a href="/wiki/Penthouse_Comix" title="Penthouse Comix">Penthouse Comix</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the <a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Larry Niven</a> essay "<a href="/wiki/Man_of_Steel,_Woman_of_Kleenex" title="Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex">Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex</a>," which detailed the problems that Superman would face in having <a href="/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">sexual intercourse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sexual_reproduction" title="Sexual reproduction">reproducing</a> with a human woman, using arguments based on humorous yet logical reconciliations between <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biology" title="Biology">biology</a>, and the abilities of <a href="/wiki/Kryptonians" class="mw-redirect" title="Kryptonians">Kryptonians</a> as presented in the Superman comic books.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Swan's <a href="/wiki/Swan_song" title="Swan song">swan song</a> was five pages published posthumously in the 1996 special <i><a href="/wiki/Superman:_The_Wedding_Album" title="Superman: The Wedding Album">Superman: The Wedding Album</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Swan died June 17, 1996, in <a href="/wiki/Wilton,_Connecticut" title="Wilton, Connecticut">Wilton, Connecticut</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Aamodt_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aamodt-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Helene Swan died at the age of 91 on January 27, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A previously unpublished story featuring Swan's art debuted in <a href="/wiki/Action_Comics_1000" title="Action Comics 1000"><i>Action Comics</i> #1000</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Art_style">Art style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Art style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Comics historian Arlen Schumer praised Swan's ability to depict "the spectrum of human emotion, from agony to anger, mournful to mirthful."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As characterized by critic Paul Gravett, Swan's Superman made "...<span class="nowrap"> </span>Krypton's last son in exile, the alien in our midst, into someone like us, who would think and feel as well as act, who was approachable, big-hearted, considerate, maybe physically superpowerful yet gentle, noble yet subtly tragic."<sup id="cite_ref-Gravett_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gravett-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a similar vein, Swan biographer Eddy Zeno calls Swan "the <a href="/wiki/Norman_Rockwell" title="Norman Rockwell">Norman Rockwell</a> of ... comics."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Gary_Groth" title="Gary Groth">Gary Groth</a>, the editor-in-chief of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Comics_Journal" title="The Comics Journal">The Comics Journal</a></i>, was less complimentary, remarking that "Swan is symptomatic of what the industry requires. They adore Swan at DC because they give Swan a script and it says 'Superman flies out the window'...and there's Superman flying out the window. The script says 'Clark Kent walking down the hall' and there's Clark Kent walking down a hall. He's just a technician who does exactly what's required of him."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With his frequent inker <a href="/wiki/Murphy_Anderson" title="Murphy Anderson">Murphy Anderson</a> from 1970 to 1974 and 1988 to 1989, the pair's collaborative artwork came to be called "Swanderson" by the fans.<sup id="cite_ref-Gravett_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gravett-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite his and Anderson's success together, Swan's favorite inker was <a href="/wiki/Al_Williamson" title="Al Williamson">Al Williamson</a>, with whom he only worked for a short time, from 1985 to 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1985, DC Comics named Swan as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication <i><a href="/wiki/Fifty_Who_Made_DC_Great" title="Fifty Who Made DC Great">Fifty Who Made DC Great</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Swan's favorite story – one of the few he both pencilled and inked – was "I Flew with Superman" from <i>Superman Annual</i> #9 (1983), in which Swan himself appears and helps Superman solve a case.<sup id="cite_ref-Gravett_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gravett-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a story titled "Swan's Way", issue #92 of the <i><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes" title="Legion of Super-Heroes">Legion of Super-Heroes</a></i> (May 1997) memorialized Swan with a cameo appearance as an art teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Elliot_S._Maggin" title="Elliot S. Maggin">Elliot S. Maggin</a></b>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We were both philosophical products of the message we spent a career delivering to the hero-worshippers of the world. We both believed in truth, justice and the American way: a personal <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">torah</a>. It was good finally to learn that we had so much in common when finally we gave each other the space to reveal it.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a></b>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I'd like to have asked him how much [Swan] identified with Superman, how much of himself he put in there. I feel that he probably did on some private level; that there was some sort of a moral strength that he aspired to, that he drew into those figures. Something almost indefinable, but some essence of himself.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The Westport Arts Center has dedicated a granite plaque in memoriam of Curt Swan, alongside others Connecticut artists.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Swan's comics work (interior pencil art) includes:<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Action_Comics" title="Action Comics">Action Comics</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Tommy_Tomorrow" title="Tommy Tomorrow">Tommy Tomorrow</a>) #127–171; (<a href="/wiki/Superman" title="Superman">Superman</a>) #189, 244, 253, 256, 260, 265, 269, 270, 272, 277–278, 280, 283–284, 286–288, 290, 295, 297–298, 303–305, 307, 309–312, 318–321, 325–327, 330, 334, 336, 338–339, 343, 351–352, 355, 358–359, 367–390, 393–473, 477–485, 487–500, 502–524, 527–534, 537, 542–544, 547, 555, 556–557, 568, <a href="/wiki/Superman:_Whatever_Happened_to_the_Man_of_Tomorrow%3F" title="Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?">583</a>, 658 (full art); #601–642 (two-page stories)<sup id="cite_ref-week_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-week-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>; #600, 650, 667, 723 (among other artists) (1948–1996)</li> <li><i>Action Comics Annual</i> #2 (among other artists) (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adventure_Comics" title="Adventure Comics">Adventure Comics</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Superboy_(Kal-El)" title="Superboy (Kal-El)">Superboy</a>) #156, 159–160, 167, 169, 174, 176, 178, 179–180, 182, 184–185, 187, 190–192, 195, 197–198, 201, 205, 208, 210–212, 214–220, 223, 224–225, 227, 230, 238, 241–243, 246, 249, 257, 279, 285, 291, 293, 301–302, 311, 320, 327–328, 330, 334, 336, 339; (<a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes" title="Legion of Super-Heroes">Legion of Super-Heroes</a>) #313, 340–347, 349–360, 365–372 (1950–1968)</li> <li><i>The Adventures of Superboy</i> #22 (1992)</li> <li><i>The Adventures of Superboy Special</i> #1 (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Superman_(comic_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Adventures of Superman (comic book)">Adventures of Superman</a></i> #471 (full art); #480, 536 (among other artists) (1990–1996)</li> <li><i>Adventures of Superman Annual</i> #2 (among other artists) (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All-Star_Squadron" title="All-Star Squadron">All-Star Squadron</a></i> #15 (1982)</li> <li><i>The Amazing World of Superman, Metropolis Edition</i> #1 (pencils from <a href="/wiki/Carmine_Infantino" title="Carmine Infantino">Carmine Infantino</a> layouts) (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aquaman" title="Aquaman">Aquaman</a></i> vol. 3 #1–5 (pencils from <a href="/wiki/Keith_Giffen" title="Keith Giffen">Keith Giffen</a> layouts) (1989)</li> <li><i>Aquaman Special</i> #1 (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arak_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arak (comics)">Arak, Son of Thunder</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe" title="Masters of the Universe">Masters of the Universe</a>) #15 (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Batman_(comic_book)" title="Batman (comic book)">Batman</a></i> #70 (1952), #358 (1983)</li> <li><i>Batman: A Word to the Wise</i><sup id="cite_ref-zellers_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zellers-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Batman_Chronicles" title="The Batman Chronicles">The Batman Chronicles</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Tim_Drake" title="Tim Drake">Robin</a>) #6 (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Batman_Family" title="Batman Family">The Batman Family</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Barbara_Gordon" title="Barbara Gordon">Batgirl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Grayson" title="Dick Grayson">Robin</a>) #5, 7, 11 (1976–1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boy_Commandos" title="Boy Commandos">Boy Commandos</a></i> #16–20, 22, 25–31, 33 (1946–1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Carrot_and_His_Amazing_Zoo_Crew!" title="Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!">Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!</a></i> (Masters of the Universe)<sup id="cite_ref-fate_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fate-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> #9 (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Comics_Presents" title="DC Comics Presents">DC Comics Presents</a></i> #30, 35, 47, 50–51, 53, 56, 58, 67–68, 71, 77–80, 87, 91–92 (1981–1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Special_Series" title="DC Special Series">DC Special Series</a></i> (Superman) #5 (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DC_Super_Stars" title="DC Super Stars">DC Super Stars</a></i> (Superboy) #12 (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Detective_Comics" title="Detective Comics">Detective Comics</a></i> (Boy Commandos) #110–127, 129–133, 135, 138–143, 149 (1946–1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Firestorm_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Firestorm (comics)">The Fury of Firestorm</a></i> (Masters ...) #6 (1982)</li> <li><i>The Fury of Firestorm Annual</i> #4 (among other artists) (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gang_Busters" title="Gang Busters">Gang Busters</a></i> #10–13, 15–20, 22, 25–27, 29, 32–42 (1949–1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghosts_(comics)" title="Ghosts (comics)">Ghosts</a></i> #4 (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hawk_and_Dove" title="Hawk and Dove">Hawk and Dove</a></i> #28 (with Greg Guler) (1991)</li> <li><i>Hawk and Dove Annual</i> #1 (among other artists) (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heroes_Against_Hunger" title="Heroes Against Hunger">Heroes Against Hunger</a></i> #1 (two-page story, among other artists) (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Mystery" title="House of Mystery">House of Mystery</a></i> #1–6, 8, 10–29 (1951–1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Justice_League_Quarterly" title="Justice League Quarterly">Justice League Quarterly</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/General_Glory" title="General Glory">General Glory</a>) #16 (among other artists) (1994)</li> <li><i>The Krypton Chronicles</i> miniseries #1–3 (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/L.E.G.I.O.N." title="L.E.G.I.O.N.">L.E.G.I.O.N. '94 Annual</a></i> #5 (among other artists) (<i><a href="/wiki/Elseworlds" title="Elseworlds">Elseworlds</a></i>, 1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes" title="Legion of Super-Heroes">Legion of Super-Heroes</a></i> vol. 2 #300 (five-page story); #306 (with Keith Giffen) (1983)</li> <li><i>Legion of Super-Heroes</i> vol. 3 #45 (five-page story, among other artists) (1988)</li> <li><i>Legion of Super-Heroes</i> vol. 4 #31 (with <a href="/wiki/Colleen_Doran" title="Colleen Doran">Colleen Doran</a>) (1992)</li> <li><i>Legion of Super-Heroes Annual</i> #3 (1984)</li> <li><i>Legion of Super-Heroes Annual</i> #2 (1986)</li> <li><i>Legion of Super-Heroes Annual</i> #5 (among other artists) (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/M.A.S.K._(franchise)" title="M.A.S.K. (franchise)">M.A.S.K.</a></i> vol. 2 #1–9 (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._District_Attorney" title="Mr. District Attorney">Mr. District Attorney</a></i> #9–10, 15, 21 (1949–1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superboy_(comic_book)" title="Superboy (comic book)">The New Adventures of Superboy</a></i> #51 (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Teen_Titans#The_New_Teen_Titans_(1980–1996)" title="Teen Titans">The New Teen Titans</a></i> #5, 25 (1981–1982)</li> <li><i>The New Teen Titans</i> vol. 2 #43 (1988)</li> <li><i>The New Titans</i> #81, 86 (1991–1992)</li> <li><i>The New Titans Annual</i> #6 (full art); #8 (among other artists) (1990–1992)</li> <li><i>The <a href="/wiki/Phantom_Stranger" title="Phantom Stranger">Phantom Stranger</a></i> #5 (two-page story) (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Power_of_Shazam!" title="The Power of Shazam!">The Power of Shazam!</a></i> #8, 11, 17 (with Pete Krause) (1995–1996)</li> <li><i>Real Fact Comics</i> #7–8, 13, 16–17, 19, 21 (1947–1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Romance_comics" title="Romance comics">Secret Hearts</a></i> #17 (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Secret_Origins" title="Secret Origins">Secret Origins</a></i> vol. 2 (Justice League of America) #46<sup id="cite_ref-two_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>; (Legion of Super-Heroes) #46–47 (1989–1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Showcase_(comics)" title="Showcase (comics)">Showcase</a></i> (Manhunters) #5 (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star-Spangled_Comics" class="mw-redirect" title="Star-Spangled Comics">Star-Spangled Comics</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Newsboy_Legion" title="Newsboy Legion">Newsboy Legion</a>) #55, 61–64; (Robin) #72; (Manhunters Around the World) 94–108, 114–120; (War stories) #131–133 (1946–1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Spangled_War_Stories" title="Star Spangled War Stories">Star Spangled War Stories</a></i> #3–13, 16–17 (1952–1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek_(DC_Comics)" title="Star Trek (DC Comics)">Star Trek</a></i> #37 (1984)</li> <li><i>Star Trek Annual</i> #3 (1988)</li> <li><i>Star Trek</i> vol. 2 <i>Annual</i> #2 (with James Fry) (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strange_Adventures" title="Strange Adventures">Strange Adventures</a></i> #1–4, 6 (1950–1951)</li> <li><i>Strange Sports Stories</i> #1–3 (1973–1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superboy_(comic_book)" title="Superboy (comic book)">Superboy</a></i> #5, 8, 10–20, 22–23, 25–48, 50–58, 63, 70, 73, 80, 89, 92, 98, 100, 103–107, 112–113, 117–118, 121, 123, 126, 129, 132, 136, 138, 146–148 (1949–1968)</li> <li><i>Superboy</i> vol. 2 #9–17 (1990–1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman_(comic_book)" title="Superman (comic book)">Superman</a></i> #51, 73, 76, 89, 97, 118, 121, 127, 130, 137, 139, 144–182, 186–187, 192–195, 197–199, 201, 207–215, 217–300, 303–306, 310–363, 365–368, 370–392, 395–396, 398–399, 401–403, 408-<a href="/wiki/Superman:_Whatever_Happened_to_the_Man_of_Tomorrow%3F" title="Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?">423</a> (1948–1986)</li> <li><i>Superman Annual</i> #9–10 (1983–1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superman_vol._2" title="Superman vol. 2"><i>Superman</i> vol. 2</a>, #35, 48 (full art); #50, 114 (among other artists) (1989–1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Superman_Family" title="The Superman Family">The Superman Family</a></i> #164–172, 174–181, 186–187 (1974–1978)</li> <li><i>Superman and Wonder Woman: The Computer Masters of Metropolis</i><sup id="cite_ref-radioshack_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-radioshack-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1982)</li> <li><i>Superman: Victory by Computer</i><sup id="cite_ref-radioshack_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-radioshack-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman_III" title="Superman III">Superman III</a>: The Official Adaptation</i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman_IV:_The_Quest_for_Peace" title="Superman IV: The Quest for Peace">Superman IV: The Quest for Peace</a> – Movie Special</i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman%27s_Girl_Friend,_Lois_Lane" title="Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane">Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane</a></i> #17, 27, 29, 32–33, 35–39, 41, 45, 54, 59, 68, 72, 86, 89, 91–92, 94, 96, 98, 102–103, 113, 122 (1960–1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman%27s_Pal_Jimmy_Olsen" title="Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen">Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen</a></i> #1–91, 95, 104, 106–114, 116–117, 119, 121–123, 125–129, 131, 140 (1954–1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Superman:_The_Man_of_Steel" title="Superman: The Man of Steel">Superman: The Man of Steel</a></i> #5 (with <a href="/wiki/Jon_Bogdanove" title="Jon Bogdanove">Jon Bogdanove</a>); #58 (among other artists) (1991–1996)</li> <li><i>Superman: The Secret Years</i>, miniseries, #1–4 (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(comic_book)" title="Swamp Thing (comic book)">Swamp Thing</a></i> vol. 2 #165 (with <a href="/wiki/Phil_Hester_(comics)" title="Phil Hester (comics)">Phil Hester</a>) (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Who_in_the_DC_Universe" title="Who's Who in the DC Universe">Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes</a></i> #7 (among other artists) (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witching_Hour_(DC_Comics)" title="The Witching Hour (DC Comics)">The Witching Hour</a></i> #80 (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wonder_Woman" title="Wonder Woman">Wonder Woman</a></i> #212, 214, 219, 221, 224 (1974–1976)</li> <li><i>Wonder Woman</i> vol. 2 <i>Annual</i> #1 (among other artists) (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/World%27s_Finest_Comics" title="World's Finest Comics">World's Finest Comics</a></i> (Boy Commandos) #21–23, 25–31; 33–38 (Manhunters Around the World) #61–62; (other stories) #70; (Superman and Batman) #71–77, 84–85, 109, 116–117, 124, 141–173, 177–179, 184, 196–197, 223–225, 227, 230, 234, 239, 243, 245 (1946–1977)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-week-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-week_49-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">During this period, the series was renamed <i>Action Comics Weekly</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-zellers-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-zellers_50-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Comic book sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Zellers" title="Zellers">Zellers</a> Inc. to promote and support the cause of literacy in Canada</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fate-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-fate_51-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Fate is the Killer" feature, appeared in several different comic books from the publisher</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-two-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-two_52-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Swan penciled two stories in this issue</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-radioshack-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-radioshack_53-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-radioshack_53-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Comic book sponsored by <a href="/wiki/RadioShack" title="RadioShack">RadioShack</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot">Inkpot Award</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ssdi/individual_record.asp?recid=473109963">Curt Swan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index" title="Social Security Death Index">Social Security Death Index</a> details, <a href="/wiki/FamilySearch" title="FamilySearch">FamilySearch</a> gives June 17, 1996, as the date of death, and was verified by a family member; verification date can be the same as the death date, or one or more days afterward.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Aamodt-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Aamodt_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Aamodt_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFAamodt2015" class="citation web cs1">Aamodt, Britt (December 1, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151212040728/https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2015/12/minnesotan-curt-swan-helped-create-superman-we-know-today">"Minnesotan Curt Swan helped create the Superman we know today"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/MinnPost" title="MinnPost">MinnPost</a></i>. 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Raleigh, North Carolina: <a href="/wiki/TwoMorrows_Publishing" title="TwoMorrows Publishing">TwoMorrows Publishing</a>. p. 58. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-893905-61-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-893905-61-6"><bdi>1-893905-61-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Krypton+Companion&rft.place=Raleigh%2C+North+Carolina&rft.pages=58&rft.pub=TwoMorrows+Publishing&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=1-893905-61-6&rft.aulast=Eury&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DFcm4JrX-F54C%26pg%3DPA58&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Swan's former wife Helene, in <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZeno2002" class="citation book cs1">Zeno, Eddy. 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David Spurlock">Vanguard Productions</a>. p. 56. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1887591393" title="Special:BookSources/978-1887591393"><bdi>978-1887591393</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Helene+Swan&rft.btitle=Curt+Swan+A+Life+in+Comics&rft.place=Lebanon%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pages=56&rft.pub=Vanguard+Productions&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1887591393&rft.aulast=Zeno&rft.aufirst=Eddy.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zeno "The First Fifteen Years", p. 10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20240528090052/https://www.webcitation.org/71npi2WsC?url=http://www.hoytfuneralhome.com/memsol.cgi%3Fuser_id=564624">"In Memory of Helene Rose Swan"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 28,</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Curt+Swan%3A+A+Superman+Walked+Among+Us&rft.pub=Comic+Book+Marketplace&rft.date=2002&rft.aulast=Gravett&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.paulgravett.com%2Findex.php%2Farticles%2Farticle%2Fcurt_swan%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/swan_curt.htm">"Curt Swan"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Lambiek" title="Lambiek">Lambiek Comiclopedia</a>. 2012. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120921224905/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/swan_curt.htm">Archived</a> from the original on September 21, 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Curt+Swan&rft.pub=Lambiek+Comiclopedia&rft.date=2012&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lambiek.net%2Fartists%2Fs%2Fswan_curt.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zeno "The First Fifteen Years", p. 13</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFManningDougall2014" class="citation book cs1">Manning, Matthew K.; Dougall, Alastair, ed. 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London, United Kingdom: <a href="/wiki/Dorling_Kindersley" class="mw-redirect" title="Dorling Kindersley">Dorling Kindersley</a>. p. 50. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1465424563" title="Special:BookSources/978-1465424563"><bdi>978-1465424563</bdi></a>. <q>Batman and Superman finally came face-to-face in this landmark issue that teamed the Dark Knight Detective with the Man of Steel for the very first time in print ... thanks to writer Edmond Hamilton and iconic Superman artist Curt Swan.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=1950s&rft.btitle=Batman%3A+A+Visual+History&rft.place=London%2C+United+Kingdom&rft.pages=50&rft.pub=Dorling+Kindersley&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1465424563&rft.aulast=Manning&rft.aufirst=Matthew+K.&rft.au=Dougall%2C+Alastair%2C+ed.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|first2=</code> has generic name (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#generic_name" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment">CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Manning "1950s" in Dougall, p. 54: "This issue combined the two super heroes in a new format of 36 pages. The cover story was dedicated to Superman and Batman's adventure, a tale written by Alvin Schwartz and penciled by Curt Swan."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Zeno "The First Fifteen Years", p. 16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zeno, p. 158</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zeno "Swan and the Superman Newspaper Strip", p. 46</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaniels1995" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Les_Daniels" title="Les Daniels">Daniels, Les</a> (1995). 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Swan's Superman became definitive, and ultimately he would draw, as he says, 'more Superman stories than anybody else.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Superman+Family+Strength+in+Numbers&rft.btitle=DC+Comics%3A+Sixty+Years+of+the+World%27s+Favorite+Comic+Book+Heroes&rft.place=New+York%2C+New+York&rft.pages=118&rft.pub=Bulfinch+Press&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0821220764&rft.aulast=Daniels&rft.aufirst=Les&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Matt_Forbeck" title="Matt Forbeck">Forbeck, Matt</a> "1960s" in Dougall, p. 84: "In this tale from Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan, an angry janitor received the powers of the entire Legion of Super-Heroes."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcAvennieDolan2010" class="citation book cs1">McAvennie, Michael; Dolan, Hannah, ed. 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Writer Jim Shooter and artist Curt Swan tried answering that question when the Man of Steel and the Fastest Man Alive agreed to the U.N.'s request to race each other for charity.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=1960s&rft.btitle=DC+Comics+Year+By+Year+A+Visual+Chronicle&rft.place=London%2C+United+Kingdom&rft.pages=124&rft.pub=Dorling+Kindersley&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-7566-6742-9&rft.aulast=McAvennie&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft.au=Dolan%2C+Hannah%2C+ed.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">|first2=</code> has generic name (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#generic_name" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment">CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 144 "New editor Julius Schwartz, new scripter Denny O'Neil, and regular artist Curt Swan removed the Man of Steel's greatest weakness from the face of the Earth."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 150: "Scripter Cary Bates and artist Curt Swan chose an inopportune time for Superman to meet Terra-Man, a <a href="/wiki/Spaghetti_Western" title="Spaghetti Western">Spaghetti Western-garbed</a> menace who rode a winged horse and wielded lethal alien weaponry."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 158: "Writer Cary Bates and artist Curt Swan gave Superman all the 'fun' he could handle with the savvy new Toyman in <i>Action Comics</i> #432."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 161: "Fans of John Boorman's 1974 sci-fi film <i>Zardoz</i>, starring Sean Connery in revealing red spandex, could appreciate writer Cary Bates and artist Curt Swan's inspiration for Vartox of Valeron."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">McAvennie "1970s" in Dolan, p. 180: "Writer Martin Pasko and artist Curt Swan introduced ... the Master Jailer."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harrington, Wallace. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=creators/c-creators-swan">"Commentary: A Fine Way to Say Thank You"</a>, Superman Home Page. Accessed March 28, 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Manning, Matthew K. "1980s" in Dolan, p. 220: "In 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?', a two-part story written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Curt Swan, the adventures of the Silver Age Superman came to a dramatic close."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.recalledcomics.com/SupermanBradman.php">"<i>Superman</i> #nn Bradman Private Commission"</a>. RecalledComics.com. n.d. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140103092436/http://www.recalledcomics.com/SupermanBradman.php">Archived</a> from the original on January 3, 2014. <q>This comic was commissioned by English property tycoon Godfrey Bradman for somewhere around £10,000 (around $18,000 back then) to celebrate his son Daniel's 13th birthday (Bar Mitzvah) and was given out to his friends to mark the occasion.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Superman+%23nn+Bradman+Private+Commission&rft.pub=RecalledComics.com&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.recalledcomics.com%2FSupermanBradman.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTrumbull2018" class="citation journal cs1">Trumbull, John (October 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LgZxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37">"Changing Tides: The Post-Crisis Aquaman"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Back_Issue!" title="Back Issue!">Back Issue!</a></i> (108). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 36–37.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Back+Issue%21&rft.atitle=Changing+Tides%3A+The+Post-Crisis+Aquaman&rft.issue=108&rft.pages=36-37&rft.date=2018-10&rft.aulast=Trumbull&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DLgZxDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA37&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCronin2015" class="citation web cs1">Cronin, Brian (June 26, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-revealed-529/">"Comic Book Legends Revealed #529"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Comic_Book_Resources" title="Comic Book Resources">Comic Book Resources</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 23,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Comic+Book+Resources&rft.atitle=Comic+Book+Legends+Revealed+%23529&rft.date=2015-06-26&rft.aulast=Cronin&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbr.com%2Fcomic-book-legends-revealed-529%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Larry_Niven" title="Larry Niven">Niven, Larry</a> (<a href="/wiki/Script_(comics)" title="Script (comics)">w</a>), Swan, Curt (<a href="/wiki/Penciller" title="Penciller">p</a>), Swan, Curt (<a href="/wiki/Inker" title="Inker">i</a>). "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" <i>Penthouse Comix</i>, no. 5 (January–February 1995). <a href="/wiki/Penthouse_(magazine)" title="Penthouse (magazine)">Penthouse</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Knight, The Magazine for the Adult Male</i>, Volume 7, Issue 8, December 1969.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 275: " The behind-the-scenes talent on the monumental issue appropriately spanned several generations of the Man of Tomorrow's career. Written by Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, David Michelinie, Louise Simonson, and Roger Stern, the one-shot featured the pencils of John Byrne, Gil Kane, Stuart Immonen, Paul Ryan, Jon Bogdanove, Kieron Dwyer, Tom Grummett, Dick Giordano, Jim Mooney, Curt Swan, Nick Cardy, Al Plastino, Barry Kitson, Ron Frenz, and Dan Jurgens."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20240525185208/https://www.webcitation.org/663LrQAZC?url=http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/ncadvertiser/news/obits/113563-helene-r-swan-91-real-estate-agent-traveler.html">"Helene R. Swan, 91, real estate agent, traveler"</a>. <i>The New Canaan Advertiser</i>. <a href="/wiki/Hersam_Acorn_Newspapers" title="Hersam Acorn Newspapers">Hersam Acorn Newspapers</a>. February 2, 2012. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/ncadvertiser/news/obits/113563-helene-r-swan-91-real-estate-agent-traveler.html">the original</a> on May 25, 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 10,</span> 2012</span>. <q>Helene Rose Swan, a longtime resident of Westport ... died after a long illness on Friday, Jan. 27, at Waveny Care Center, surrounded by her family. She was 91, and the wife of more than 35 years to the late Curtis D.  [<i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a></i>] Swan.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+New+Canaan+Advertiser&rft.atitle=Helene+R.+Swan%2C+91%2C+real+estate+agent%2C+traveler&rft.date=2012-02-02&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acorn-online.com%2Fjoomla15%2Fncadvertiser%2Fnews%2Fobits%2F113563-helene-r-swan-91-real-estate-agent-traveler.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerviou2018" class="citation web cs1">Herviou, Nicole (May 1, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbr.com/action-comics-1000-deluxe-hardcover/">"DC Announces Action Comics #1000 Deluxe Hardcover Release"</a>. <i>Comic Book Resources</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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"Curt Swan The Definitive Superman Realized" <i>Fifty Who Made DC Great</i>, p. 27 (1985). DC Comics.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCronin2016" class="citation web cs1">Cronin, Brian (January 30, 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbr.com/meta-messages-a-touching-legion-tribute-to-a-superman-art-legend/">"Meta-Messages: A Touching Legion Tribute to a Superman Art Legend"</a>. <i>Comic Book Resources</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Maggin", p. 77</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zeno "Alan Moore", p. 167</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDaley2002" class="citation news cs1">Daley, Sherri (May 5, 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/nyregion/westport-artists-get-a-place-of-their-own.html">"Westport Artists Get a Place of Their Own"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 12,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Westport+Artists+Get+a+Place+of+Their+Own&rft.date=2002-05-05&rft.issn=0362-4331&rft.aulast=Daley&rft.aufirst=Sherri&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2002%2F05%2F05%2Fnyregion%2Fwestport-artists-get-a-place-of-their-own.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACurt+Swan" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comics.org/penciller/name/curt%20swan/sort/alpha/?pencils=curt+swan&method=icontains&target=sequence&page=1">Interior pencil art by Curt Swan</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Comics_Database" title="Grand Comics Database">Grand Comics Database</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curt_Swan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/41px-P_vip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/55px-P_vip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1944" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Biography" title="Portal:Biography">Biography portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mnopedia.org/person/swan-curt-1920-1996">Curt Swan in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/2018010101/http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=353">Curt Swan</a> at the Comic Book DB (archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://comicbookdb.com/creator.php?ID=353">the original</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.comics.org/images/9/9d/DC_Profiles_07.jpg">"DC Profiles #7: Curt Swan</a> at the Grand Comics Database</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/creator.php?creatorid=8">Curt Swan</a> at Mike's Amazing World of Comics</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=creators/c-creators-swan">Curt Swan</a>, Superman Home Page</li> <li>Reed, Bill. 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