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Gardner Fox

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.
Justice League of America: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Edition)
DC Finest: Justice League of America: Starro the Conqueror
DC Finest: Science Fiction: The Gorilla World
DC Finest: Justice Society of America: The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate
Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (2025 Edition)
DC Finest: Justice Society of America: For America and Democracy
DC Finest: Green Lantern: The Defeat of Green Lantern
DC Finest: Justice League of America: The Bridge Between Earths
Green Lantern: the Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Edition)

Books

Justice League of America: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Edition)
Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Edition)
DC Finest: Justice League of America: Starro the Conqueror
DC Finest: Science Fiction: The Gorilla World
DC Finest: Justice Society of America: The Plunder of the Psycho-Pirate
Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (2025 Edition)
DC Finest: Justice Society of America: For America and Democracy
DC Finest: Green Lantern: The Defeat of Green Lantern
DC Finest: Justice League of America: The Bridge Between Earths
Green Lantern: the Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Edition)

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