John Broome (writer)

John Broome ( born May 4, 1913 † 14 March 1999, Chiang Mai, Thailand ) was an American comic book writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms John Osgood and Ray Meritt. Broome became famous as the spiritual father of the cartoon characters " Green Lantern ", " Guy Gardner " and "Flash ".

Life and work

Broome began his writing career as an author of science fiction novels. Finally, at the urging of his friend and former agent Julius Schwartz, he moved 1945/46, the comic trade. In particular, he started for the American publisher DC Comics, for the editorially Schwartz was working to write.

In the 1950s and 1960s created Broome both the whimsical humor - character " Detective Chimp " whose stories he seven years, from 1952 to 1959 wrote, but also wrote numerous adventure and superhero series like "Per Degaton " and "The Atomic Knights ". In addition, he devised the humorous superhero " Elongated Man ", with the ability to stretch his body like a private investigator kneading or rubber mass and drag.

But Broomes influential work for DC were undoubtedly the many years supported by him as an author superhero series " Green Lantern " and "The Flash". Both series were launched extremely successful during the 2nd World War and was until the late 1940s extremely successful. In the postwar period, however, they had been discontinued due to declining demand and gradually fallen into oblivion. Broome took up the name " Green Lantern " and "Flash " as well as individual concept elements of the old series in the late 1950s to again and integrated them into two new, the old titles while revitalizing, de facto, but acting from entirely different characters series. The new Flash, Barry Allen ( Silver Age Flash), and the new Green Lantern, Hal Jordan ( the Silver Age Green Lantern), two specially by him devised to this day extremely popular at heart cartoon characters, introduced Broome new secondary characters and villains to the side. In addition, he placed her in a new settings and gave them decidedly different background stories than the previous bearers of the name. His main artistic collaborators were the artist Gil Kane, who visualized the majority of Broome's " Green Lantern " stories, and Carmine Infantino, the Broomes " Flash " stories in pictures summarized.

1970 Broome ended his career as a comic book writer and began working as an English teacher in Tokyo.

Prices

Among the numerous awards received the Broome for his works include, among others, the Alley Award for Best Short Story " in 1964, he for the story " got Doorway to the Unknown " from Flash # 148.

  • Comic author
  • Americans
  • Born in 1913
  • Died in 1999
  • Man
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