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Curt (Curtis) Swan

Curt (Curtis) Swan (1920 - 1996) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut, Minnesota.  Curt Swan is known for Comic book illustration-Superman.

Curt Swan (American, 1920-1996): was drafted into the army in 1940, where he spent World War II working on the G.I. magazine, Stars and Stripes. After returning to civilian life in 1945, he began working for DC Comics. After a stint on Boy Commandos, he began to just pencil pages, leaving the inking to others.  

He drew many different features including Tommy Tomorrow and Gangbusters, but slowly began gravitating towards the Superman line of books including Superboy, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen and the Legion of Super-Heroes feature in Adventure Comics.

He drew the daily newspaper comic strip Superman from the late 1950s until its demise in 1964. Swan became the artist most associated with Superman during the Silver Age of comic books, producing hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s. With his frequent inker Murphy Anderson, the pair's collaborative artwork came to be called "Swanderson"   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1698 characters.]  Artist bio

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