I'm under the weather today but I had to drag myself to the keyboard to post this: Today is the 88th birthday of Julius Schwartz. If you don't know who that is, you obviously know little about science fiction or comics — two fields in which he distinguished himself. He co-published the first s-f fanzine. He was an agent for many important s-f authors, including a young kid named Ray Bradbury. He then went into comics where he worked for DC for something like half a century, bringing us some of the best books to ever come out of that company, including Batman, Superman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League of America and Strange Adventures.
The entire Silver Age of Comics — the revitalization of the industry in the late fifties — flowed directly from his work, and I'm too ill to write much more than this. So for now I'll just wish him a happy birthday and hope for 88 more just like it.