Monday, March 12, 2007

Arnold Drake: 1924-2007

The man who created my all time favorite team of comic book super-heroes (The Doom Patrol) and one of the coolest super-heroes ever (Deadman) has died. Another of the greats of the old days is gone. This is a sad day.

Arnold Drake: 1924-2007
He wasn’t as well known as say, Bob Kane or Siegel and Shuster, but if you read DC Comics produced in the ‘60s and up, you surely read some of the work of Arnold Drake, who died today, after a short bout of “a touch of pneumonia” and other complications for which he was recently hospitalized. News of Drake’s death came via writer and comics historian, Mark Evanier.

Though his comics writing career spanned thousands of stories and pages, fans will likely best remember Drake as the creator of Deadman and The Doom Patrol, as well as Stanley and His Monster.