![]() ![]() He wrote about Hal Jordan, not Green Lantern. #ZOOM CARE 365 CARMINE SERIES#Writer-editor Dennis Mallonee described Broome's work on Green Lantern as the only superhero series in which screwball comedy "was essentially realized", and called Broome "a genius. The creative team created Guy Gardner in the story "Earth's Other Green Lantern!" in issue #59 (March 1968). Black Hand, a character featured prominently in the " Blackest Night" storyline in 2009–2010, debuted in issue #29 (June 1964) by Broome and Kane. Broome's stories for the Green Lantern series included transforming Hal Jordan's love interest, Carol Ferris, into the Star Sapphire in issue #16. He became the character's primary scripter in Green Lantern's solo series as well. īroome, with penciler Kane and editor-conceptualist Schwartz, created Hal Jordan, the Silver Age Green Lantern, in Showcase #22 (Oct. Other Broome additions to the Flash mythos, Kid Flash and the Elongated Man were respectively introduced in issues #110 and 112 as allies of the speedster. Captain Boomerang was featured in the 2016 Suicide Squad film and was portrayed by actor Jai Courtney. 1960), the 64th century villain Abra Kadabra in #128 (May 1962), and Professor Zoom in #139 (Sept. He co-created several of the character's primary supervillain antagonists including Captain Boomerang in issue #117 (Dec. He wrote numerous Flash stories in the character's subsequent series. Barry Allen, who carried the superhero name from the original Golden Age Flash, by scripter Robert Kanigher and penciler Infantino in Showcase #4 (Oct 1956)-considered the comic that triggered the Silver Age-Broome wrote Flash stories beginning in that very issue. Following the creation of an all new Flash, a.k.a. With the dawn of what fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books, Broome was instrumental in writing stories of two key characters who helped revive the moribund archetype of the superhero. 1952) and the post-apocalyptic heroes the Atomic Knights, with artist Murphy Anderson, in Strange Adventures #117 (June 1960). 1952) the Phantom Stranger, also with Infantino, in Phantom Stranger #1 (Sept. ĭuring this time, Broome created many DC characters and institutions, including the whimsical simian sleuth Detective Chimp, with artist Infantino, in The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 (Aug. Outside that genre, he wrote a large number of stories for the crime comics anthology Big Town, based on the radio and television shows. For the latter he used the pen name Edgar Ray Merritt, devised by his friend and editor Julius Schwartz, as a nod to fantasy writers Poe, Bradbury, and Abraham. 1950s and the Silver Age Īs the new decade began, Broome wrote science-fiction stories for DC, both standalone tales-including "The Mind Robbers", in Mystery in Space #1 (May 1951), under the pseudonym Robert Stark-and continuing-character features, such as "Astra" (in Sensation Comics, one story of which teamed him with his future regular artist collaborator, Gil Kane), and " Captain Comet", which he created with penciler Carmine Infantino in Strange Adventures #9 (June 1951). His final Golden Age Green Lantern story appeared in the last issue of that character's title, Green Lantern #38 (May 1949), and his final JSA story in All Star Comics #57 (March 1951), the last before its retitling as All-Star Western. Broome and artist Irwin Hasen created the supervillain Per Degaton as a JSA antagonist in All Star Comics #35 (July 1947). Through the 1940s, Broome wrote primarily Green Lantern stories and the superhero team the Justice Society of America, and contributed an occasional tale starring the Atom, the Hawkman, or Doctor Mid-Nite, in titles including Sensation Comics, Comic Cavalcade, All Star Comics, All-American Comics, and Flash Comics. He wrote text fillers under the pen name John Osgood. His first known script for the company was the 13-page Flash story "The City of Shifting Sand" in All-Flash #22 (May 1946). When his agent, Julius Schwartz, became an editor at what would become DC Comics during the 1930–40s " Golden Age of Comic Books", Broome was recruited to write superhero stories starring the Flash, Green Lantern, Sargon the Sorcerer and others. By 1942 he was writing text fillers for Fawcett Comics, at least one under the pseudonym Ron Broom. By then he was already writing for some of the earliest American comic books to be published, beginning with a two-page "Pals and Pastimes" humor strip, illustrated by Ray Gill, in Centaur Publications' Funny Pages #7 (Dec. ![]() As a youth, he enjoyed reading science fiction and began writing for science-fiction pulp magazines in the 1940s. Biography Early life and career īroome was born Irving Broome to a Jewish family. ![]()
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