- Writer
Gardner Fox (May 20, 1911 – December 24, 1986) was one of the most prolific and foundational writers in DC Comics history, responsible for creating or co-creating the Justice Society of America, Hawkman, the Flash (Jay Garrick), Doctor Fate, Sandman, Zatanna, the Justice League of America, Adam Strange, and Batgirl. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Fox was a trained lawyer who turned to pulp writing and comics in the late 1930s and remained a cornerstone of DC through the Silver Age. He was fired in 1968 after signing a writers' petition seeking health insurance from DC, a casualty of the industry's systemic disregard for creative labor. He was posthumously inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.