The late Curtis Douglas Swan drew SUPERMAN and his related characters for approximately 50 years, in a humanistic, and believable fashion, very much befitting one of the world's greatest super-heroic icons.
Curt drew SUPERMAN'S PAL: JIMMY OLSEN, WORLD'S FINEST COMICS (featuring SUPERMAN & BATMAN tean-ups), LOIS LANE, SUPERBOY, and SUPERMAN and Superman in ACTION COMICS.
Having worked on earlier projects such as BOY COMMANDOES, following a stint on the US ARMY publication, STARS & STRIPES, Curt was able to take on drawing the adventures of The man Of Steel quite comfortably, and drew the syndicated newspaper feature version of SUPERMAN also.
Curt's portrayal of SUPERMAN was no as dynamic as earlier SUPERMAN cartoonists like that of co-creator Joe Shuster, or that of Wayne Boring, who had a long run, drawing SUPERMAN with a massive barrel chest, and visiting exquisite futuristic cities, but Curt's gentle SUPERMAN had a quiet, inner strength that belied his calm exterior, and the SUPERMAN stories of the 1960's that were inked by the late George Klein, and those from the 1970's inked by Murphy Anderson, are among some of the finest adventures in the nearly 70 years long history of The Last Son Of Krypton.
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