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Probably one of the greatest comic book writers of all time, Gardner Fox was born 1911 in Brooklyn. He started out as a lawyer, and practiced law from around 1935-1937. Being a proficient writer, Gardner Fox found there was more money to be made in writing fiction than in practicing law (during the latter years of the Depression), and took a job with DC Comics.
By 1939, he was writing Batman stories, and came up with ideas like the Batarang (which became so popular in the TV series in the 1960s). Gardner Fox also created some of the most enduring characters in the Golden Age of comics, such as: Starman, Dr. Fate, the Flash, Johnny Thunder and his Bahdnisian Thunderbolt, the Sandman (possibly inspired by the Green Hornet), and Hawkman and Hawkgirl (possibly inspired by the winged bat-men of Flash Gordon serials) - however, as Carter Hall & Shiera, Hawkman & Hawkgirl were the first married superheroes in comics (a quarter of a century before Reed & Sue in the Fantastic Four). Not one to be tied down to any one company, Gardner Fox also wrote for Timely (the precursor of Marvel) and EC Comics. Superhero comics thrived during the 1940s, but by 1951 they were replaced by Westerns and science fiction and teen humor comics; Gardner Fox took it all in stride and wrote for these genres, he also wrote stories for pulps such as "Amazing Stories" and "Planet Stories."
In the 1960s, Gardner Fox wrote the interstellar exploits of Adam Strange and his beloved Alanna in "Mystery in Space" comics. In those great years of the Silver Age, Gardner Fox revived many of the superheroes of the 1940s, to new audiences (he used a science fiction device: the earlier heroes live in a parallel universe on Earth-2). He wrote several thousand comics in his career. After 1968, he concentrated mainly on writing science fiction novels, and wrote such classics as "Escape Across the Cosmos" and "Arsenal of Miracles," as well as writing mysteries and sword-and-sorcery adventures. He wrote over 100 novels. In his small amount of free time, one of his hobbies was hunting; Gardner Fox was an excellent marksman and sometimes wrote about hunting and rifles in his novels. In his retirement years, Fox wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Lynna Cooper. He died at age 75; he had 2 children and 4 grandchildren.- Susan Richards was born on 6 August 1898 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for The Lady of the Camellias (1976), Village of the Damned (1960) and The Wednesday Play (1964). She died on 24 December 1986 in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Helena Benda was born on 22 April 1903 in Keresztúr, Sopron, Austria-Hungary [now Deutschkreutz, Burgenland, Austria]. She was an actress, known for The Light Ahead (1939) and Medical Center (1969). She was married to Harold Bassin. She died on 24 December 1986 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Karla Runkehl was born on 7 November 1930 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Genesung (1956), Nur eine Frau (1958) and Urlaub ohne Dich (1961). She died on 24 December 1986 in Kleinmachnow, German Democratic Republic.
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Werner Degan was born on 6 November 1907 in Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor and director, known for Les atouts de Monsieur Wens (1947), Tess d'Urberville (1959) and Prisoners of Honour - We Lived Through Buchenwald (1946). He died on 24 December 1986 in Vorst, Brussels, Belgium.- Kale Teuronen was born on 17 January 1912. He was an actor, known for The Unknown Soldier (1955), Sven Tuuva (1958) and Pieni luutatyttö (1958). He died on 24 December 1986.
- Supporting actor on stage and in films from his debut in 1918. He played on many Norwegian theater's, longest term at Centralteatret in Oslo. For some years he also worked in America under the name Erik Barbour, he played at the Shere Lane Theatre in New York. When he died on Christmas eve in 1986 at the age of 96 years, he was one of the oldest Norwegian male actors ever.