And the attic is crammed with books and magazines.Everything about science, nature, or unusual facts, I can go to my files or the at least 2,000 books that I have". He revealed in letters to fan Jerry Bails that he kept large troves of reference material, mentioning during 1971, "I maintain two file cabinets chock full of stuff. For instance, during a year's worth of Atom comic strip stories, Fox referred to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the space race, 18th-century England, miniature card painting, Norse mythology, and numismatics. Debuting as a writer in the pages of Detective Comics, Fox "intermittently contributed tales to nearly every book in the DC lineup during the Golden Age." He was a frequent contributor of prose stories to the pulp science fiction magazines of the 1930s and 1940s.Ī polymath, Fox included numerous real-world historical, scientific, and mythological references in his comic strips, once saying, "Knowledge is kind of a hobby with me". He practiced for about two years, but as the Great Depression continued he began writing for DC Comics editor Vin Sullivan. John's College and was admitted to the New York bar in 1935.
On or about his eleventh birthday, he been given The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, books which "opened up a complete new world for me." He "read all of Burroughs, Harold Lamb, Talbot Mundy," maintaining copies "at home in my library" some 50 years later.įox received a law degree from St. Fox recalled being inspired at an early age by the great fantasy fiction writers. Fox was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Julia Veronica (Gardner) and Leon Francis Fox, an engineer.
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