I remember reading
Gardner explainimg how he came up with Hawkman
In The Brave and the Bold 34
Something very similar to this
"As I sat by the window I noticed a bird collecting twigs for a nest. The bird would swoop down, pick up the twig, and fly away. I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if the bird was a lawman and the twig a crook!?’’ "
—Gardner Fox
Sure. (Sarcastically)
That’s a long way from
The complex story elements in the Origin Story.
He said it for legal reasons
The same reasons
Jerry Siegel never mentioned the novels
Gladiator and
John Carter of Mars
Or Bob Kane
Zorro and the Shadow
When they discussed how the ideas of Superman and Batman
Came about
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