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Gardner Fox

1911 - 1986

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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. He is estimated to have written more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gardner Fox has received more than 652,207 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gardner Fox is the 4,876th most popular writer (down from 104th in 2019), the 7,150th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,410th in 2019) and the 580th most popular American Writer.

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  • 650k

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  • 45.65

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gardner Fox ranks 4,876 out of 5,755Before her are Rita Mae Brown, Adolf Born, José Burgos, John Green, Gamal El-Ghitani, and Johan Henric Kellgren. After her are Nataliya Kobrynska, John Braine, Tomás António Gonzaga, Vladimir Dudintsev, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, and John Hersey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Gardner Fox ranks 261Before her are Martim Mércio da Silveira, Zoltán Beke, Leonard Warren, Jack Finney, Jeanette Nolan, and Rıfat Ilgaz. After her are Paris Pişmiş, Charles Walters, Shoichi Sakata, Sakari Tuomioja, Gilles Grangier, and Bruno Ahlberg. Among people deceased in 1986, Gardner Fox ranks 195Before her are Guillermo Eizaguirre, Bruno Mora, Harry Benjamin, Aleksei Arbuzov, Heinz Strehl, and Enrique Tierno Galván. After her are John Braine, Eino Leino, Leona Woods, Jackson Scholz, Reinhold Münzenberg, and Forrest Tucker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gardner Fox ranks 7,150 out of 18,182Before her are Jessica Simpson (1980), Joe Bryant (1954), John Green (1977), Loni Anderson (1945), Robert A. Taft (1889), and Rashida Jones (1976). After her are Alan Helffrich (1900), Keri Russell (1976), Little Eva (1943), Andrea Elson (1969), Mark Snow (1946), and Buster Crabbe (1908).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gardner Fox ranks 580Before her are John Keel (1930), L. J. Smith (1965), Kenneth Copeland (1936), Karin Slaughter (1971), Rita Mae Brown (1944), and John Green (1977). After her are Tom Peters (1942), Ted Chiang (1967), Lester del Rey (1915), Ring Lardner (1885), Joel Chandler Harris (1848), and Madeleine L'Engle (1918).