Arnold Drake
| Arnold Drake | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 1, 1924 United States |
| Died | March 12, 2007 (aged 83) New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
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Notable works
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Deadman Doom Patrol Guardians of the Galaxy |
| Awards |
Alley Award – Best Full-Length Story 2008 |
Alley Award – Best Full-Length Story
1967 "Who's Been Lying in My Grave?"
Alley Award – Best New Strip
1967 "Deadman"
Bill Finger Award – Excellence in Comics Writing
2005
Arnold Drake (March 1, 1924 – March 12, 2007) was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others.
Drake was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.
Arnold Drake was the third child of Max Druckman, a Manhattan furniture dealer who died in June 1966 at his home in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, and Pearl Cohen. His eldest brother, Ervin Drake, born Ervin Maurice Druckman, and the middle brother, Milton, both became notable songwriters.
At age 12, Drake contracted scarlet fever, confining him to bed for a year, a time he spent drawing his own comic-strip creations. Years later, turning to writing, he studied journalism at the University of Missouri and later at New York University.
Collaborating with co-writer Leslie Waller (together using the pseudonym Drake Waller) and artist Matt Baker, Drake wrote St. John Publications' pioneering It Rhymes with Lust, a proto-graphic novel comics magazine sold on newsstands in 1950. At some unspecified point before or after this, he met a neighbor of one of his brothers: Bob Kane, the credited creator of Batman for one of DC Comics' precursor companies. After collaborating with Drake on some projects, Kane introduced Drake to editors at DC.
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