Born in New York City and raised in its Bronx borough, he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938.
[3][4] He briefly wrote for The New Leader before being stationed in Washington, D.C. as a member of the Army Signal Corps during World War II.
"[7] Warshow also penned essays praising playwright Clifford Odets as well as George Herriman's newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat.
"The 'Idealism' of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" showed the executed American Stalinists in a brutally honest light.
After Fredric Wertham and Gershon Legman, Warshow was the first serious critic to write about EC Comics and its Mad magazine, albeit from a measured and equivocal perspective.