Editing Curt Swan (section)

==Legacy==
In 1985, DC Comics named Swan as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication ''[[Fifty Who Made DC Great]]''.<ref>{{Cite comic|writer = Marx, Barry|cowriters = [[Joey Cavalieri|Cavalieri, Joey]] and Hill, Thomas|artist = Petruccio, Steven|editor = Marx, Barry|story = Curt Swan The Definitive Superman Realized|title = Fifty Who Made DC Great|date = 1985|publisher = DC Comics|page = 27}}</ref>

Swan's favorite story – one of the few he both pencilled and inked – was "I Flew with Superman" from ''Superman Annual'' #9 (1983), in which Swan himself appears and helps Superman solve a case.<ref name="Gravett" />

In a story titled "Swan's Way", issue #92 of the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' (May 1997) memorialized Swan with a cameo appearance as an art teacher.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbr.com/meta-messages-a-touching-legion-tribute-to-a-superman-art-legend/ |title=Meta-Messages: A Touching Legion Tribute to a Superman Art Legend |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=January 30, 2016 |website=Comic Book Resources |access-date=January 30, 2016}}</ref>

'''[[Elliot S. Maggin]]''':
{{blockquote|We were both philosophical products of the message we spent a career delivering to the hero-worshippers of the world. We both believed in truth, justice and the American way: a personal [[torah]]. It was good finally to learn that we had so much in common when finally we gave each other the space to reveal it.<ref>Zeno "Elliot S! Maggin", p. 77</ref>}}

'''[[Alan Moore]]''':
{{blockquote|I'd like to have asked him how much [Swan] identified with Superman, how much of himself he put in there. I feel that he probably did on some private level; that there was some sort of a moral strength that he aspired to, that he drew into those figures. Something almost indefinable, but some essence of himself.<ref>Zeno "Alan Moore", p. 167</ref>}}

The Westport Arts Center has dedicated a granite plaque in memoriam of Curt Swan, alongside others Connecticut artists.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Daley|first=Sherri|date=May 5, 2002|title=Westport Artists Get a Place of Their Own|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/nyregion/westport-artists-get-a-place-of-their-own.html|access-date=September 12, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>