The 1960s adventures of the Flash that introduced the Scarlet Speedster to his Golden Age predecessor, Jay Garrick, are collected in DC's Deluxe Edition format for the first time.
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.
The man most closely associated with the Silver Age Flash, Carmine
Infantino began working in comics in the mid-1940s as the artist on
such features as Green Lantern, Black Canary, Ghost Patro,l and the
original Golden Age Flash. Infantino lent his unique style to a
variety of superhero, supernatural, and Western features throughout
the 1950s until he was tapped to pencil the 1956 revival of the
Flash. While continuing to pencil The Flash, he also provided the
art for other strips, including Batman, The Elongated Man and Adam
Strange. Infantino became DC's editorial director in 1967 and
ultimately its president before returning to freelancing in 1976.
Since then he has penciled and inked numerous features, including
the Batman newspaper strip, Green Lantern Corps, and Danger Trail.
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