Oscar Schisgall (1901 - 1984)

Oscar Schisgall (23 February 1901 - 20 May 1984) was a Russian-born American editor and author corporate historian and a prolific contributor to various magazines.

He authored histories of Procter & Gamble, the Bowery Savings Bank, Xerox, and Greyhound. He wrote some 4,000 short stories and articles for the Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Liberty and The New York Times Magazine, among others. One of his 35 novels, ''Swastika,'' written in the late 1930's, was made into the movie ''I Married a Nazi.''

He is of science fiction interest for the Baron Ixell sequence which appeared in Clues from 1927 to 1932; Baron Ixell: Crime Breaker (coll 1929) assembles earlier stories. In disguise, immensely rich, hugely clever, the Baron is a precursor of Superheroes like Doc Savage.