Gardner Fox
American comics writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox[1] (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986)[2][3] was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories,[4] including 1,500 for DC Comics. Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories.
| Gardner Fox | |
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 Portrait of Gardner Fox by Gil Kane | |
| Born | Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (1911-05-20)May 20, 1911 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 24, 1986(1986-12-24) (aged 75) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Pseudonym(s) | Jefferson Cooper, Kevin Matthews, Kevin Mathews, James Kendricks, Jeffrey Gardner, Bart Sommers, Rod Gray, Simon Majors, Troy Conway, Glen Chase, Lynna Cooper |
Notable works | Golden Age: Sandman, Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Justice Society of America, Hawkgirl Silver Age: Justice League of America, Atom, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Zatanna, Batgirl, Red Tornado |
| Awards | Alley Award
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Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes Barbara Gordon, the original Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Zatanna and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed several of those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America, and later recreated the team as the Justice League of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!".