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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mort Weisinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Weisinger may have held a very romantic and fannish view of editors of science fiction publications, one which depicted them as larger-than-life figures, holding the power of life or death over the careers of science fiction authors (themselves greater than human).
		Weisinger, in particular, began implementing this policy in an attempt to keep DC vital and viable, but the policy, in some ways, also allowed the new talents (generally unbeknownst to themselves) to serve as scabs to displace surly old tenured talent with whose services DC wished to dispense.
		Weisinger retired from his role as Superman editor, and from comics, in 1970, where his old friend and fellow pulp-era science fiction fan Julius Schwartz would assume the role of Superman editor until his own retirement in the eighties.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mort-Weisinger (930 words)

	An Interview with Mort Weisinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Weisinger joined the world of comics in the early 1940s, when most fans and readers of today were not even born...
		Mort's own career as a writer is of great interest to your interviewer and he asks to see the place where Weisinger does his magazine writing: his current, almost full-time occupation.
		Mort visited the show with Julius Schwartz and noted that while a question submitted from the listening audience was being introduced and the name of the listener was being read, the panel of experts paid no attention, seemed to be asleep.
	theages.superman.ws /Creators/weisinger_interview.php (3666 words)

	Mort Weisinger - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He is most famous as the editor of the Superman line of comic books for DC Comics during The Silver age of comic books.
		However, the influence of Weisinger's style proved too strong and most of the gimmicks returned, albeit in a modestly more sophisticated fashion.
		It remains true that, under Weisinger's editorship, (before the Batman TV series) the Superman comics were the most popular in the world.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mort_Weisinger (313 words)

	Mort Weisinger Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Weisinger was the son of a businessman in the garment trade; he was born on April 15, 1915, in the Washington Heights section of New York City, and grew up in the Bronx.
		Weisinger returned to his job at National after his discharge from military service in 1946, and resumed his editorship of the Superman comics.
		Weisinger's tenure on the Superman comics was marked by the introduction of a variety of new supporting concepts and characters, including Supergirl, Krypto, the Phantom Zone, the Legion of Super-Heroes, and a variety of types of kryptonite, among others.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Mort_Weisinger (1027 words)

	Talent Pool 23 - Mort Weisinger (Dec 2000)
		Reasearching Mort Weisinger, particularly for one not deeply steeped in the lore of fandom and just barely too young to remember his tenure in comics when those books appeared new on the shelves, represents something of a problem.
		Schwartz and Weisinger thus solicited themselves as agents of the Solar Sales Service, promoting themselves as facilitators who, owing to their personal familiarity with a number of central editors in the science fiction field, could connect more directly to these editors than authors relying on mailed manuscripts that might wait indefinitely on an editor's desk.
		Weisinger, describing this last period of Superman work, claimed that he became increasingly fond of stories where Superman would lose his powers altogether and have to solve problems in the way an ordinary man might.
	www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/niven/142/talentpo/tp23.html (3246 words)

	Johnny Quick: 1940's Comic Book Super Hero
		Weisinger is careful to indicate that there is nothing magical about the formula: it is purely scientific.
		In Weisinger's Silver Age Superman family stories, these would become plastic face masks, but otherwise, the idea is present here at an early date.
		Weisinger, with his deep ties to sf, would be part of this.
	hometown.aol.com /mg4273/quick.htm (2795 words)

	Superman in the Seventies
		Weisinger was noted for treating his artists and especially his writers badly, but his stories, although aimed more at the 8-12-year-old audience than the teenagers that were increasingly coming to dominate comics fandom, showed a great deal of imagination.
		Weisinger had been one of the first editors to attempt to replenish his writers from the ranks of comics fans.
		Weisinger's last suggestion, before he retired, was that a single editor be placed in charge of all the Superman titles so they could have the coherence he'd given them.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /soapbox/99028686674400,print.htm (1606 words)

	Creators of the Silver-Age Superman Family
		Weisinger was so impressed with the "child prodigy" that he hired Jim right away and after a little fixing up in both story and art Adventure Comics No. 347/348 was the result.
		Mort helped revitalize and expand upon DC's greatest legend, as well as oversaw the formation of the Legion of Super-Heroes in 1958, his brain-child.
		Mort encouraged readers to write into his mags with suggestions and criticisms, which forced him to think up ingenious answers that eventually made their way into the Superman legend.
	members.shaw.ca /super-heroes/silver-age/talent (1459 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
		Shortly after he turned 16, he met Mort Weisinger, who would himself one day be a formidable force in comics, after reading an ad Weisinger's fan group had inserted in Amazing, looking for new members.
		Before long, they were daring to think that they might somehow be able to make a living from their passion for science fiction while doing something to help their favourite editors, who were, they knew, swamped by growing slush piles.
		Mort Weisinger introduced him to Bill Finger, writer and co-creator of Batman, who taught Bester what he needed to know about writing for comics.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/js88.htm (1348 words)

	ASJA: American Society of Journalists and Authors
		Mort was a big man with a big voice and a forceful approach to his work.
		Weisinger had several times called the man's office, written him letters, pestsered his press officer -- all to no avail.
		Mort, rolls of quarters at the ready, started dropping them into the slot.
	www.asja.org /newspub/x0501i.php (685 words)

	Comic Book DB - Mort Weisinger
		For most of the Weisinger era of the 1960s and 1970s, Swan's less "chiseled", more "human" Superman came to be the visual metaphor for the Weisinger era.
		Though his old friend Julius Schwartz nominally took up the title Weisinger had vacated, in practice the day-to-day decisions on each book were handled by a different editor.
		He would probably be very happy indeed to note that one of his additions to the mythos, the original Supergirl, made such a huge impact in 2004-5.
	www.comicbookdb.com /creator.php?ID=522 (845 words)

	The Legion of Super-Heroes Online Companion: Volume 1
		As luck would have it, Mort Weisinger was looking for a new writer for the title, and bought the script from the young author.
		In 1941 he co-created Green Arrow with editor Mort Weisinger, and drew the strip continuously, with an exception for the war years, until 1958.
		Born on April 25, 1915, Mort Weisinger left the editorship of the pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in the early Forties to become an editor at National Periodical Publications, later known as DC Comics.
	www.legiononline.net /volume1/creators.html (3455 words)

	The Comics Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first chapter introduces fans to Mort Weisinger, the abrasive editor of Superman in the 50’s and 60’s and the man largely responsible for developing the Superman mythology, as we know it today.
		Weisinger had a very deserved reputation for being hard to work with, especially for those writers and artists under him.
		Weisinger seemed somewhat embarrassed about his work in comics as he was known to brag often about articles he wrote for more mainstream publications like Reader’s Digest and Parade Magazine.
	www.thecomicsreview.com /temper.php?id=302 (544 words)

	'Nuff Said! the sound of comics on WBAI-FM - Jack Schiff
		Whit's presence is probably the main reason the source material of "mere comic books" was treated with some respect on the Superman TV show even as the Senate of the United States was condemning them (quite amazing when you think of it in that context).
		Mort's rather fiery personality, so I'm told, completely overwhelmed Jack's more introverted personality and he convinced Jack to put more sci fi (meaning that in the pejorative b-movie sense) into Batman.
		Mort was also friendlier with the boss, Jack Liebowitz, which might also have influenced Jack into listening to Mort.
	www.comicbookradioshow.com /schiff.html (946 words)

	Jack Schiff
		I found him intelligent, caring, fair and literate-- a combination which Mort Weisinger, who took over from Schiff was thoroughly lacking.
		How Mort diluted Superman with his endless flow of Superg\dog, supergirl, etc. How he hated to let writers make more money than he made, and tried to stop the wonderful and herlpful DC practice os advances for writers.
		S J Perelman lampooned him mercilessly in the New Yorker and Mort took it as flattery because he was mentioned in the New Yorker.
	www.comicscommunity.com /boards/alvin/?frames=n;read=459&expand=1 (647 words)

	Comic Coverage: Cover to Cover: Superboy or Super-Reject? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Weisinger went straight for the "psychological jugular" by infusing his Superman books with all the petty jealousies, bitter rivalries and deep-seated insecurities of childhood.
		Most of Weisinger’s stable of characters dealt with rejection in one form or another, but it was Superboy who became the undisputed poster child for rejection.
		Through it all, editor Mort Weisinger masterfully played upon (or preyed upon) the insecurities of his vast audience of children, reinforcing their secret fear that replacement by someone else…someone better…was not only possible….but almost inevitable.
	comiccoverage.typepad.com /comic_coverage/2006/09/post_1.html (1197 words)

	Comic Book Resources - Comic Book News, Reviews and Commentary - Updated Daily!
		Long-time Superman editor Mort Weisinger was responsible for some of the strangest covers to ever see the light of Scott Shaw's slide projector.
		And unlike many of the oddities that my friend Scott offers up here, Weisinger was not naïve, not innocently cobbling up some aberrant idea without realizing how truly bizarre it was, nor was he trying to be outlandish.
		Weisinger's home around 1 or 2:00 in the afternoon, he would give you free comic books.
	www.comicbookresources.com /columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2001-04-2 (566 words)

	Wikinfo \| Julius Schwartz
		In 1932, Schwartz co-published (with Mort Weisinger and Forrest J. Ackerman) Time Traveller one of the first science fiction fanzines.
		Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency (1934-1944) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H.
		The Schwartz-edited line of titles was regarded by many as being more creative and dynamic than other DC titles of the time, notably the Superman line edited by Mort Weisinger.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Julius_Schwartz (439 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Man Of Two Worlds at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Acting as the go-between, they would use their contacts in the publishing field to get stories into the hands of editors, and they would also make sure that the authors were paid in a timely fashion.
		Weisinger had left Solar in order to become an editor, first at a pulp, and then at National Periodicals, the publisher of the Superman and Batman comic books.
		The closest he comes to talking negatively about anyone is in recalling his old friend, Weisinger; apparently, Mort had an abrasive personality that made it difficult for most people...Julie aside...to warm up to him.
	www.epinions.com /content_123069697668?linkin_id=8003929 (1206 words)

	PEACE PARTY -- A. David Lewis, scholar
		Attributed to Mort Weisinger, the story recounts the genesis of Aquaman's powers, his ability to breathe underwater and communicate with marine life.
		Stan Lee, arguably the forefather of Marvel Comics, is guilty of a similar transgression in 1962.
		Creators like Lee and Weisinger had the insight to imbue their popular, fantastic stories with a foundation in mythic lore.
	www.bluecorncomics.com /adlewis.htm (706 words)

	info: Mort_Weisinger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Talent Pool 23 - Mort Weisinger (Dec 2000)Mort Weisinger, in his day, would do more to shape the Superman franchise since any person since...
		An Interview with Mort Weisinger An Interview with Mort Weisinger.
		DC ComicsWritten by Mort Weisinger, Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, and various; Art by Mort Meskin, George Papp, Creig Flessel, Jack Lehti, Hal Sherman, and Ed Dobrotka;
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Mort_Weisinger.html (317 words)

	THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (I)
		But in april 1958, Mort Weisinger, who was editor of the DC Comics tittles (then National Periodical Publications), with writer Otto Binder, created a group of Super-Heroes from the future who denominated LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, introducting them in the Superboy story of ADVENTURE COMICS NO.247 in April 1958.
		Editor from National Periodical Publications, Mort Weisinger, received so many letters from the readers who asked for more Legion of Super-Heroes stories, that aplied the policy of publishing Legion stories in almost all colections from the Superman family.
		Finally, in the summer of 1962, Mort Weisinger saw that the Legion of Super-Heroes was a full success and decided to give it a regular ongoing series substituting "Tales of the Bizarro World" (the second part in ADVENTURE COMICS) and in NO.300 from September 1962, it is changed for "Tales of The Legion of Super-Heroes".
	members.fortunecity.es /superspain/legionen.html (3904 words)

	Comics Should Be Good: Comic Book Urban Legend Revealed #1
		That same year, Mort Weisinger purchased a story by 17 year old Cary Bates.
		Weisinger had already used a cover idea sent in by Bates that Bates had done three years earlier.
		I sent them to Mort Weisinger, and the first that he used featured Luthor and Brainiac snarling at Superman, six inches high, suspended in a cage.
	goodcomics.blogspot.com /2005/06/comic-book-urban-legend-revealed-1.html (1347 words)

	Amazon.com: "Mort Walker": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mort Walker is an excellent golfer, having shot as low as 68.
		Mort Walker -- Interest rates are still low.
		Mort Walker -- Millions of Products from Thousands of Stores All in One Place.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Mort-Walker (480 words)

	news from me - ARCHIVES
		Mort Weisinger was the editor of Olsen at the time and Gary wonders if Mort had a hand in the creation of the original version, which appeared on the pulp magazine, Thrilling Wonder Stories.
		Weisinger used to use the children who lived in his neighborhood as a kind of unofficial "focus group." He'd take crates of comics home from the office and hand them out every Saturday afternoon at some specified time.
		So my guess here is that Weisinger had a copy of that pulp around and showed it to the neighborhood tots one Saturday.
	www.newsfromme.com /archives/2006_06_19.html (834 words)

	Captain Future
		Captain Future was a pulp hero invented by Mort Weisinger when he was an editor at Standard Magazines (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories, etc.) in 1939, shortly before attending the first World SF Convention in New York City.
		Weisinger realized that most science fiction fans at the time were teenage boys, so he came up with the idea of an SF magazine aimed at teens, with an outer-space hero.
		Future" and turned the concept into "Captain Future." Captain Future, Curt Newton, was a typical super-science pulp hero, with a trio of unusual companions: Grag, a seven foot tall robot; Otho, a green-skinned android; and Simon Wright, a human brain living in a box.
	www.robertweinberg.net /captainfuture.htm (498 words)

	Green Arrow
		Dressed like Robin Hood, Green Arrow is an archer, who invents arrows with various special functions, such as a glue arrow, a net arrow, a boxing glove arrow, etc. Originally, most of his other traits were borrowed from Batman.
		The Arrowcar was yellow in color and shaped reminiscent of the land-speed record holder of the 1920s, the British Golden Arrow.
		Incidentally, another Mort Weisiner-created character called Aquaman also appeared for the first time in that issue, and these two back-up features continued to run concurrently in More Fun Comics until the mid-1940s, and then in Adventure Comics from 1946 until 1960.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Green_Arrow.php (3314 words)

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