![]() He introduced perhaps the most memorable war-comics protagonists, Sgt. ![]() * GI Combat, Our Army At War, Our Fighting Forces, All-American Men of War and Star-spangled War Stories. In '52, Kanigher (who claimed to be a veteran but according to other information had never served in the military having been rejected and classified 4-F) began editing and/or writing DC's five war comics. His greatest success and lasting legacy, though, would come from DC's war comics. He also wrote what's often considered the first story of the Silver Age, introducing Barry Allen as the new Flash, created stalwarts like Metal Men, Black Canary and Batman villain Poison Ivy, and at one point or another, wrote probably every single DC hero. He wrote the Justice Society, and then became the editor and writer of Wonder Woman, a title he would guide from 1946 all the way to '68. His first (recorded) comics work was for Fox, writing the original Dan Garrett Blue Beetle, and soon after, the best-selling Captain Marvel Adventures, before joining All-American Comics, which would eventually become DC. ![]() He also wrote in every medium available to the jobbing writer in the 40s, but it was in comics that he made his name. He started writing in his teenage years - enough that he was able to write the book How To Make Money Writing with authority at the age of just twenty-eight. Robert (often just "Bob") Kanigher (1915-2002) was one of the most prolific and influential writers ever at DC Comics, in a career that spanned five decades. ![]() Kanigher as drawn by his friend Joe Kubert ![]()
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