![]() ![]() Robert Kanigher was the model for the murder victim in my 1950s comic book business-based novel The Same Old Story ( order here!). He was the writer who revitalized the Flash in Showcase #4, who wrote those circa-1960 issues of Wonder Woman I loved as a kid, who created Metal Men and Sgt. This was in the mid-1970s, when I was new to the business and young enough to be smitten by my hero-creators, of which Bob Kanigher was surely one. ![]() And rather than avoid him, as many were wont to do, I sought him out, volunteering to be backed into a corner so he could tell me about some thrilling adventure he’d had on the slopes of Aspen, or the origin of the “dueling scar” on his cheek. He was more a monologist than a conversationalist, a close talker who would get in your face and regale you with stories in which he was invariably the hero. According to Mike’s Amazing World website, he’s comics’ fourth most prolific writer, scripting almost 30,500 pages across more than 2,700 stories between 19.īob could also be a bit of a bore. He was a spinner of epic tales both on and off the page, a mad genius of comic book creation. He was arrogant, irascible and argumentative. Robert Kanigher (June 18, 1915–May 7, 2002) was one of the most interesting men in comic books. ![]() Nevertheless, it holds up perfectly well, obviously, so dial back your mind to three days ago and dig it. NOTE from Sheepish Dan: Robert Kanigher’s birthday was actually June 18 but I neglected to post this terrific piece by columnist Paul Kupperberg simply because I let it slip through my fingers. ![]()
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