Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics.
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27 Facts About Gardner Fox
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Gardner Fox is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics.
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Gardner 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.
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Gardner F Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Julia Veronica and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer.
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Gardner Fox recalled being inspired at an early age by the great fantasy fiction writers.
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Gardner Fox received a law degree from St John's College and was admitted to the New York bar in 1935.
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Gardner Fox practiced for about two years, but as the Great Depression continued he began writing for DC Comics editor Vin Sullivan.
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Polymath, Gardner Fox included numerous real-world historical, scientific, and mythological references in his comic strips, once saying, "Knowledge is kind of a hobby with me".
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For instance, during a year's worth of Atom comic strip stories, Gardner Fox referred to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the space race, 18th-century England, miniature card painting, Norse mythology, and numismatics.
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Gardner Fox wrote for a diverse range of pulp magazines, including Baseball Stories, Big Book Football Western, Fighting Western, Football Stories, Lariat Stories, Ace Sports, SuperScience, Northwest Romances, Thrilling Western, and Ranch Romances for a number of publishing companies.
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Gardner Fox wrote a pair of sword and planet novels titled Warriors of Llarn and Thief of Llarn.
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Gardner Fox worked for numerous companies including Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics; Vin Sullivan's Magazine Enterprises, Columbia Comics where he created Skyman; and at EC, where he served a brief stint as chief writer.
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Alongside Kane and Finger, Gardner Fox contributed to the evolution of the character, including the character's first use of his utility belt, which "contain[ed] choking gas capsules, " as well as writing the first usages of both the Batarang and the Batgyro, an autogyro precursor to the Batcopter, two issues later.
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Gardner Fox is credited with writing the first three of six stories in the inaugural issue of Flash Comics, including the debut of the titular character, The Flash.
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Hibbard, Gardner Fox created the first superhero team, the Justice Society of America.
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Gardner Fox wrote some of the required text pieces for Magazine Enterprises, which were required by the Post Office to qualify magazines and comics for cheaper postal rates.
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Gardner Fox stopped receiving work from DC during 1968, when the comics company refused to give health insurance and other benefits to its older creators.
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Gardner Fox, who had written a number of historical adventure, mystery and science fiction novels during the 1940s and the 1950s, began to produce novels full time, using his own name and several pseudonyms.
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Gardner Fox produced a small number of comics during this period, but predominantly produced novels, writing more than 100 in genres such as science fiction, espionage, crime, fantasy, romance, western, and historical fiction.
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Gardner Fox died at Princeton Medical Center in Princeton, New Jersey from pneumonia.
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Gardner Fox is interred in Holy Cross Burial Park and Mausoleum in East Brunswick, New Jersey, alongside his wife Lynda.
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In July 1971, Gardner Fox estimated he had written "[f]ifty million words" over the course of his career to date.
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Gardner Fox was a member of a number of literary and genre organisations, including the Academy of Comic Book Arts, the Authors Guild, the Authors League of America, and the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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Gardner Fox won two 1962 Alley Awards – for Best Script Writer and for Best Book-Length Story, with penciler Carmine Infantino — as well as a 1963 Alley, for Favorite Novel, and the 1965 Alley for Best Novel with penciler Murphy Anderson.
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Gardner Fox donated over fourteen boxes of comics, books, scripts, plot ideas, and fan letters dating back to the 1940s.
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Gardner Fox's records comprise the bulk of the university's Fox Collection.
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