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Robert Kanigher

Robert Kanigher

Golden and Silver Age Legend; Writer, Creator and Editor. He's worked on just about every known DC title from Batman to Wonder Woman. Robert is also the co-creator of Poison Ivy, Black Canary, Wonder Girl, Metal Men, Suicide Squad and The Flash as well as hundreds of DC War Comics.

Name:
Robert Kanigher
Aliases:
  • Bob Kanigher
  • Bart Regan
  • Lew Howe
Birth date:
June 18th, 1915
Death date:
May 6th, 2002
Home town:
Fishkill, NY
Country:
United States
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Robert Kanigher was an editor as well as the writer on Justice Society of America, Hawkman and the Silver Age Green Lantern . his writing style on Wonder Woman often involved breaking the fourth wall to ask the reader what their impressions were of certain story arcs.

Characters Created by Robert Kanigher

  • Barry Allen (the Flash)
  • Iris West Allen
  • Angle Man
  • Black Canary
  • Chemo
  • Crimson Centipede
  • Death Man
  • El Diablo
  • Mal Duncan
  • Egg Fu
  • Enemy Ace
  • King Faraday
  • Fiddler
  • Fireworks Man
  • Rick Flag
  • G.I. Robot
  • Gentleman Ghost
  • Icicle
  • Iron
  • Klamos
  • Knights of the Galaxy
  • Lady Cop
  • Lilith
  • Mademoiselle Marie
  • Will Magnus
  • Metal Men
  • Mouse Man
  • Paper Man
  • Platinum
  • Poison Ivy
  • Ragman
  • Rex the Wonder Dog
  • Sgt. Rock
  • Sea Devils
  • Silent Knight
  • Star Sapphire
  • Suicide Squad
  • Tala
  • The Losers
  • Thorn
  • Time Trapper
  • Trigger Twins Walt Trigger and Wayne Trigger
  • Unknown Soldier
  • Viking Prince
  • Wonder Girl

Issues

August 1947

November 1947

December 1947

February 1948

March 1948

April 1948

May 1948

June 1948

July 1948

August 1948

September 1948

October 1948

November 1948

December 1948

January 1949

February 1949

March 1949

April 1949

May 1949

Volumes

1937

1938

1939

1940

1941

1942

1950

1951

1952

1954

1955

1956

1958

1959

1960

1961

1963

1964

Characters