Julius Schwartz

“The first thing I did when I took over Batman was to get rid of the aliens and the Bat-babies and the Bat-apes and all that nonsense.”

“You have to be a fan first to be a good editor.”

“The Flash was the first of the superheroes to be revived, and he was the most successful.”

“Every story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

“My job was to sit on my behind and read stories and be a fan.”

“I felt our readers were getting bored with the sameness of the stories. We were doing the same thing month after month. I just wanted to introduce a few new characters.”

“We wanted to keep the names... It was a marketing ploy. We kept the names Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, and so on. We just updated them.”

“Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as a mirror for real life, to be a commentary on the world we live in.”

“The main thing is to tell a good story. That's what it's all about.”

“I never thought of myself as a creator. I was an editor. That was my job.”

“Covers are billboards for the comic.”