Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911 to December 24, 1986) 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, and he also wrote science fiction novels and short stories. Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes including Barbara Gordon and the original Flash. The atlas records him as a writer of Flash Comics #1, the issue that introduced the original Flash.
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Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (May 20, 1911, December 24, 1986) was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics.
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During 1998, he was posthumously awarded a Harvey Award and entered into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame; a year later, he was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Awards and honors: harvey-award
During 1998, he was posthumously awarded a Harvey Award and entered into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame; a year later, he was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Awards and honors: will-eisner-award-hall-of-fame
During 1998, he was posthumously awarded a Harvey Award and entered into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame; a year later, he was inducted into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Awards and honors: bill-finger-award
During 2007, Fox was one of the year's two recipients of the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing, given under the auspices of San Diego Comic-Con.
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