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
Best Script Writer (1962)
Best Book-Length Story (1962, with Carmine Infantino)
Favorite Novel (1963, with Mike Sekowsky)
Best Novel (1965, with Murphy Anderson)
Fox's novella "The Man the Sun-Gods Made" was the cover story for the Winter 1946 issue of Planet StoriesFox's novella "The Warlock of Sharrador" was cover-featured on the March 1953 issue of Planet Stories
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.
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!".
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^"Newswatch: Flash Creator, Gardner Fox, Dead at 75". The Comics Journal (114). Seattle, Washington: Fantagraphics Books: 28. February 1987. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012.
^"Gardner Fox: Overview". The Comic Books. n.d. Archived from the original on April 4, 2009.
^Parker, John R. (May 20, 2016). "Master of the Multiverse And Legend Of The Justice Society: A Tribute To Gardner Fox". ComicsAlliance. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
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the concept of the multiverse, to DC Comics. The story was written by GardnerFox under the editorial guidance of Julius Schwartz (whose subsequent autobiography...
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