Debuting as a writer in the pages of Detective Comics, Fox "intermittently contributed tales to nearly every book in the DC lineup during the Golden Age." He was a frequent contributor of prose stories to the pulp science fiction magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. He practiced for about two years, but as the Great Depression continued he began writing for DC Comics editor Vin Sullivan. John's College and was admitted to the New York bar in 1935. On or about his eleventh birthday, he was given The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, books which "opened up a complete new world for me." He "read all of Burroughs, Harold Lamb, Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years later. Fox recalled being inspired at an early age by the great fantasy fiction writers. Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Julia Veronica (Gardner) and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story " Flash of Two Worlds!". Fox was also a science fiction author and wrote many novels and short stories.įox 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.
He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (– December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics.
Fox's novella "The Warlock of Sharrador" was cover-featured on the March 1953 issue of Planet Stories
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