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Curt Swan, whose Swedish grandmother had shortened and Americanized the original family name of Svensson, was born in Minneapolis, the youngest of five children. [3] Father John Swan worked for the railroads; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson [4] had worked in a local hospital. [5]
Feb 17, 2020 · By ARLEN SCHUMER. To the Baby Boom Generation that grew up on his work, Curt Swan (1920-1996) was, is, and forever will be the definitive Superman artist. Over the course of his almost-four decade run on the character (1948-1986), Swan depicted many of the landmark events that became touchstones in the lives of the Superman family.
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Mar 28, 2020 · Superman Artist – Curt Swan. March 28, 2020 Comic Book News 2. Curt Swan was born February 17th 1920, in Willmar, Minnesota as the youngest of five children of John Swan, a railroad man, and the former Leotine Hanson who had worked in a local hospital. Swan was of Swedish stock; his Grandmother had actually changed the family name from ...
Feb 18, 2020 · Art: Curt Swan/George Klein. Swan defined the look of the Man of Steel for not one but two generations. His Silver Age Supes had countless facial expressions and a simple, muscular build that was perfect for the goofiness of the stories of that era. When I first started collecting comics at the tail end of the '70s, I was a Marvel guy.
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Jun 17, 1996 · Curt Swan (1920 - 1996) Curt Swan was born February 17, 1920 and was the youngest of five children. His father John Swan worked for the railroads while his mother Leotine Hanson worked in a local hospital. As a boy, Swan's given name - Douglas - was shortened to "Doug," and, disliking the phonetic similarity to "Dog," Swan thereafter reversed ...
Feb 17, 2016 · Douglas Curtis Swan was born February 17, 1920, in Willmar, Minnesota, the youngest of five children. As a young man, he would switch his first and middle names and go by “Curt,” largely due to his dislike for how much “Doug” sounded like “dog.”. At age 18, Swan joined the National Guard, and by 1940 he was called to join the Army.
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May 19, 2022 · May 19, 2022. CREATOR PROFILE: CURT SWAN (1920-1996) Ask most people who read comics in the Silver and early Bronze age of comics to picture the comic book Superman in their head, the vast majority will come up with Curt Swan’s iconic looking Man of Steel. Douglas Curtis Swan was born February 17th, 1920 in Minneapolis, the youngest of five ...
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