Gardner Francis Cooper Fox 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, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories.
Portrait of Gardner Fox by Gil Kane
Fox's novella "The Man the Sun-Gods Made" was the cover story for the Winter 1946 issue of Planet Stories
Fox's novella "The Warlock of Sharrador" was cover-featured on the March 1953 issue of Planet Stories
Crom, the Barbarian in Out of This World Adventures #1, June 1950, art by John Giunta.
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937.
Cover art of the first comic book by National Comics Publications, New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 (cover dated February 1935). Unlike comic book magazines series up to that point, characters in this book, such as the Western character Jack Wood, were original creations, and did not originate in comic strips.
Action Comics No. 1, the iconic issue that introduced Superman and helped birth the superhero genre
Image: Maj. Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson LCCN2014713912
Image: Jerry Siegel in Uniform ca 1943 cropped
