Lew Sayre Schwartz (1926–2011) was a key but long-uncredited contributor to DC Comics’ Batman during the late Golden Age. From roughly 1947 to 1953, Schwartz served as a ghost artist for Bob Kane, penciling well over 100 Batman stories that appeared under Kane’s byline, a common practice of the era.

Schwartz’s work helped define Batman’s post-war visual identity, noted for its clean storytelling, expressive figures, and strong architectural backgrounds. He is also co-credited with the creation of Deadshot, who debuted in Batman #59 (1950), one of the Dark Knight’s most enduring adversaries.

Although he left comics in the early 1950s and went on to a highly successful career in film and advertising, Schwartz’s Batman work is now widely recognized by historians as essential to the character’s development during a formative period.