Born in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, Gardner Fox was probably the
single most imaginative and productive writer in the Golden Age of
comics. In the 1940s, he created or co-created dozens of
long-running features for DC Comics, including the Flash, Hawkman,
the Sandman, and Doctor Fate, as well as penning most of the
adventures of comics' first super-team, the Justice Society of
America. He was also the second person to script Batman, beginning
somewhere around the Dark Knight Detective's third story. For other
companies over the years Fox also wrote Skyman, the Face, Jet
Powers, Dr. Strange, Doc Savage and many others-including Crom the
Barbarian, the first sword and sorcery series in comics. Following
the revival in the late 1950s of the superhero genre, Fox assembled
Earth's Mightiest Heroes once more and scripted an unbroken
65-issue run of Justice League of America. Though he produced
thousands of other scripts and wrote over 100 books, it is perhaps
this body of work for which he is best known. Fox passed away in
1986.
Born in 1926, Bob Haney grew up in Philadelphia and entered the
comics field in 1948, writing war, crime, and western stories for a
wide variety of publishers. Haney is perhaps best known for his
role in the creation of Metamorpho, Eclipso and the Teen Titans,
his long runs on Batman and Robin, Suicide Squad, Tomahawk and
Mystery in Space, and his contributions to DC's line of war
comics.
Neal Adams was born June 6, 1941 in New York City. He attended
Manhattan's High School of Industrial Art and, while still a
student, found work ghosting the Bat Masterson syndicated newspaper
strip and drawing gag cartoons for Archie Comics. Neal received his
own comic strip based on the popular TV series Ben Casey in 1962.
The strip ran until 1965 at which time Neal made the move to comics
for Warren Publishing and DC Comics. Neal's realistic style on
Deadman and Green Lantern/Green Arrow, at odds with the more
cartoony comics of the day, made him an immediate star. He became
DC's premier cover artist, contributing radical and dynamic
illustrations to virtually the company's entire line. Neal's work
has also appeared in Marvel's X-Men, The Avengers, and Thor, on
paperback book covers, and on stage, as the art director for the
Broadway science fiction play, Warp. In the 1970s, Neal and partner
(and frequent inker) Dick Giordano started the art agency
Continuity Associates out of which came, in the 1980s, Continuity
Comics. Neal is the winner of several Alley, Shazam, and Inkpot
Awards, and was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of
Fame in 1999.
Gil Kane is recognized as one of the most influential artists in
comic books, with a string of credits at DC, Marvel, and other
companies that includes Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Atom,
The Flash, Conan, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and many others. In the
late 1950s and early 1960s, he was the artist tapped to relaunch
both Green Lantern and The Atom, and, during the '60s, he was
responsible for the first mass-market comic books, including the
magazine His Name is Savage and the illustrated paperback novel
Blackmark. With writer Ron Goulart, Kane created the newspaper
comic strip Star Hawks.
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