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Jennifer DeRoss (JD)

@jenniferdeross.bsky.social
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I am a queer, poly parent and community college STEP coach. I also wrote Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox! My next big project is a biography for Jerry Bails, who is often referred to as the father of comic book fandom.

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 20/06/2026
Have you filled out the third annual Comic Worker Survey? If not, this is the time to support your fellow comics workers! Your answers will help address pay disparities for a more transparent and equal comics industry. Take the survey here: cartoonist.coop/2026comicwor... Art by @urnash.com
Inkling, an inkwell, is standing atop a pile of gold bars, gleefully waving a fistful of money in the air. Nibford, a dip pen, is clutching a single nickel to their chest and trying their best not to cry, Floating text urges you to TAKE THE 2026 COMIC WORKERS SURVEY! because PAY TRANSPARENCY HELPS US REACH PAY EQUALITY!
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
Image shows the creepy-eyed Tryphon in a classic black-and-white horror comic style. 

Five Claws to Tryphon (from Vampire Tales #2)
Script: Gardner Fox 
Pencils: Jesús Blasco (pages 1-6) John Romita  (pages 7-10)
Inks: Jesús Blasco (pages 1-6) John Romita (pages 7-10)
Letters: Irv Watanabe (pages 1-6) (pages 7-10)
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Flash Comics 37 (3477)
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 28/09/2026
I got asked to write for Global Literature in Libraries for their #worldkidlit Month and I wrote on--surprise!!!--Shigeru Mizuki! @dandq.bsky.social glli-us.org/2026/09/28/w...
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#WorldKidLit Month Focus on Japan: Shigeru Mizuki—The Yokai Professor
Today’s post comes to you from Zack Davisson: Every kid in Japan grows up on Shigeru Mizuki. He is the Yokai Hakase—the Yokai Professor—who educates the children of Japan on the folklore that is so…
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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson - splashin’ in Supergirl 5 (1973); originally presented in Hawkman 4 (1964).
Introducing Zatanna. Center full portrait, flanked by panels of Katar and Shayera in action.
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BatCat @brocephuslive05.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#DCcomics character of the day: Doctor Fate Created by Gardner Fox & Howard Sherman, Kent Nelson was an archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Nabu, a Lord of Order. Kent was bestowed the Helmet of Fate granting him magical abilities and joined the Justice Society of America.
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Tim Evanson @timinthecle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
August 20, 1964 – Zatanna debuts in Hawkman #4 (cover date November 1964). She was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson. #Zatanna #DCComics #GardnerFox #MurphyAnderson
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My only hope is that the show has been laying the groundwork for a team that could continue the narrative beyond Daredevil. Please give us Heroes for Hire and Daughters of the Dragon. 🤞🤞🤞
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Batman Day! 🦇 This is your annual reminder to include Gardner Fox in your celebrations. From the Batarang to Batgirl, Gardner Fox had a long and lasting impact on Batman and the world he lives in.
Panel of Batman throwing a Batarang for the first time from Detective Comics #31 (1939). "The Flying Batarang - modeled after the Australian bushman's boomerang!"

Batman vs. the Vampire, Part 1

Script: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff (ghosted for Bob Kane)
Inks: Bob Kane
Colors: ?
Letters: Sheldon Moldoff

Purple cover for Detective Comics #359 showing Batgirl running towards the reader with Batman and Robin on either side. "Meet the new Batgirl!" "Is she heroine or villainess?" "What is her startling secret identity?"

The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!
Script: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Carmine Infantino
Inks: Sid Greene
Colors: ?
Letters: Gaspar Saladino
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Jeremiah Avery @jlavery522.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The imagination and talent that Gardner Fox had is amazing and enduring.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Artist Sheldon Moldoff, one of Bob Kane's main ghost artists, he also cocreated Poison Ivy, Mr. Zero (later renamed Mr. Freeze), Bat-Mite, the original Bat-Girl & Batwoman, Ace the Bathound, and more. #BatmanDay
A black and white photo of Moldoff drawing.Batman #156. A famous cover of Batman holding Robin's body. "A Sensational 2-Part Adventure-Batman Dies at Dawn!"
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jerry Robinson, an influential artist & comics historian, who co-created the Joker and Robin, and an early advocate for creators' rights. #BatmanDay
A color photo of Robinson with his book, The Comics, sitting on a table in front of him.Detective Comics #71, with a cover by Robinson featuring the Joker.
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Happy Batman Day! 🦇 This is your annual reminder to include Gardner Fox in your celebrations. From the Batarang to Batgirl, Gardner Fox had a long and lasting impact on Batman and the world he lives in.
Panel of Batman throwing a Batarang for the first time from Detective Comics #31 (1939). "The Flying Batarang - modeled after the Australian bushman's boomerang!"

Batman vs. the Vampire, Part 1

Script: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff (ghosted for Bob Kane)
Inks: Bob Kane
Colors: ?
Letters: Sheldon Moldoff

Purple cover for Detective Comics #359 showing Batgirl running towards the reader with Batman and Robin on either side. "Meet the new Batgirl!" "Is she heroine or villainess?" "What is her startling secret identity?"

The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!
Script: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Carmine Infantino
Inks: Sid Greene
Colors: ?
Letters: Gaspar Saladino
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Hawkworld @hawkworld.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
September 18 is the 100th birthday of the great Joe Kubert. I put together a gallery of the Hawkman and Hawkgirl art by Kubert that I collected from the Internet over the years. I also added some of his covers that feature #Hawkman and #Hawkgirl. Joe Kubert Gallery: www.hawkworld.org/p/joe-kubert...
September 18 is the 100th birthday of the great Joe Kubert. I put together a gallery of all the Hawkman and Hawkgirl art by Kubert that I have collected from the Internet over the years. I also added a collection of his covers that feature Hawkman and Hawkgirl. 
Joe Kubert Gallery: https://www.hawkworld.org/p/joe-kubert-tribute-gallery.html
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Grand Comics Database @grandcomicsdb.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Ghost Rider #2-5 [A-1 #29, 31, 34, 37] Magazine Enterprises, 1950-1951 Covers by Frank Frazetta. Interior art by Dick Ayers. Stories in 3 & 4 written by Gardner Fox. Starring the original Ghost Rider, Rex Fury.
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Sandy, the Friendly Ghost @sandyjarrell.com · 16/09/2026
The Bat-Man
Full moon behind, he looks over the city from atop a building, the laws of perspective don’t apply here
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m doing some reorganizing and realized it was a good time for this: ✨ 1 like = 1 semi random comic off my shelf ✨
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Grand Comics Database @grandcomicsdb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Detective Comics #355-358 DC, 1966 Covers by Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella Batman stories written by John Broome (except 356, by Gardner Fox). Art by Infantino & Giella (355, 357) and Sheldon Moldoff & Giella (356, 358). The Outsider is revealed to be Alfred in 356; Alfred is "resurrected."
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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
hey I have something for this
The Atom explains to Wonder Woman that he's saving lives by dating Giganta because supervillains who engage in cross-morality romances kill fewer people.
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This card is everything wrong with Reality Fracture. I’ve been enjoying the story and the trailer was cool, but I have zero interest in drafting or playing a Jace themed format. Also, if Jace is trying to end all suffering, why would he invoke his bully? Or create a place called Hexhaven??
Repurposed Enforcer
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Creature — Human Soldier
Whenever this creature attacks, empower Jace X, where X is the number of creatures you control. (Put that many loyalty counters on a Jace token you control. If you don’t control one, first create a blue Jace planeswalker token with “[−1]: Surveil 1” and “[−3]: Draw a card.”)
A face half remembered, a form fit to serve.
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Illustrated by Chris Rallis
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Anthony S. @sevensoldiers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
On the malt shoppe spinner-rack, Sept. 1942! For one thin dime you could catch the bad guy, explore new worlds and fight the Axis powers. Just amazing. What would you have picked up back in the day? #comics #comicbooks #dccomics #marvelcomics #MCU #DCStudios @comicsinthega.bsky.social
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Not to take away from the point but this wasn’t originated by Whedon but Gardner Fox in 1940 with the first superhero team JSA where he had the most popular characters team up for mission and finish their side mission in their own respective books
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Neekko @neekko.art · 31/08/2026
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Squidward looking out the window meme, with "Batgirl Fans" written on Squidward's head and "Coyote vs Acme Enjoyers" written under Spongebob and Patrick
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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The dystopian sci-fi series “Bitch Planet” (2014-17) is written by Kelly Sue DeConnick with primary art by Valentine De Landro. It offers a feminist twist on exploitation films while showcasing the power of comics to speak back to power, reframing languages of objectification. 1/8 #ComicsStudies
The cover of Bitch Planet #1 showing a silhouette of a feminine form raising two middle fingers in front of the background of a prison setting.
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Charlie Stickney/ White Ash Comics @charliestickney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who's looking for comic cover work? I'm going to be hiring a bunch of people in 2027 and would love to expand my list of human artists. Please include samples and/or a link to your portfolio. NO AI or bots using other people's work please
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 30/08/2026
Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀
Digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a stylized portrait of Mary Shelley
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Tony Mangino @tonymangino.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A Story about Jack Kirby
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Seth Jacob @sethjacob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
probably my favorite Jack Kirby quote: “The characters represent a transcendent feeling we all have inside us. We could do better. We want to do better. We have the time to do better. That we could be the people that we lionize.”
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Be strong enough to be gentle.” True words to live by.
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As parting gifts, it is pretty great that the universe told us all to stop our normal lives in order to watch old movies and remember how important it is to loudly be ourselves. 💖
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Stu Horvath @stuhorvath.com · 15/07/2026
Back to the lich for a moment. The idea of a revenant-like lich is pretty common in the pulps, but the direct inspiration for the sorcerous lich of D&D comes from the Gardner Fox story "The Sword of the Sorcerer" featuring Kothar the Barbarian
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I read Jack London’s Call of the Wild three times in fifth grade. I’d only been off the mountain for two years at that point and the culture shock I experienced was still fresh. I had not been well received either. The story resonated in deep ways. It taught me what a good book could do.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
From 1941, the Golden Age Flash sorts out some homegrown American fascists. Forcibly. Hurrah! (All-Star Comics #4, by Gardner Fox & E. E. Hibbard et al, in a story created & published months before America entered World War II.)
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Also, Alex Grand saying he had never thought about the theme of justice in relation to Gardner Fox’s stories is a clear indicator that my work isn't out there enough! I talk about it quite a bit in Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox. 😉
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Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox
Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox [DeRoss, Jennifer, McLain, Bob] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Needs to be a real cover someday... :)
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Catching up on my reading. 😁
Page 25 of the fourth Comics Courier (2026 summer/fall edition)

“Lesbians Aren’t Just Tragedies “ 
by Samantha Puc

You can also see my mantle and some houseplants etc.
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I just came across this photo again. Trust me that his little smile shows just how much he knew he was living his best life at that point. 😂❤️
My youngest son, sitting on my shoulders and reading Spider-Man
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John Jakala @jjakala.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"When she looks at me with those sizzling blue eyes, I feel a spark I've never felt with anyone else before!"
Splash panel to the story "The Beast with the Sizzling Blue Eyes!" from Mystery in Space #62

Adam Strange / comic story / 8.67 pages
Script: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Carmine Infantino
Inks: Bernard Sachs
Colors: ?
Letters: Gaspar Saladino
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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 10/07/2026
We don't have that many terms used _in_ fantasy fiction, so today's new Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction entry is a good one: "sellsword". Popularized by Gardner Fox; quotes from Gary Gygax, Lin Carter, GRRM of course, &c. sfdictionary.com/view/3164/se...
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Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: sellsword
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Today is the birthday of artist Marie Severin (Aug. 21, 1929-Aug. 30, 2018), most known for her work at EC Comics & her many years at Marvel.
A black and white photo of Severin.Her cover to The Incredible Hulk #102 (1968), which is a dramatic image of the Hulk changing into Bruce Banner.The Sub-Mariner #16 (1969). The cover by Severin shows Namor struggling to free himself from some sludge. There are several wrecked ships and a man approaching in a small boat. He is holding a lantern. There is a large shadowy image of Tiger Shark in the background.Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. The cover is a cartoonish image of Marie at her drawing table surrounded by small figures of various comic characters.
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Ny Guy @midknightnyran.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Being real this issue is one of my favorites from golden age Fate The ending is so decidedly sweet Like Kent is an all timer Gardner Fox wifeguy
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Grand Comics Database @grandcomicsdb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Justice League of America #57 DC, 1966 "Man, Thy Name Is -- Brother!" by Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky, & Sid Greene. Cover by Carmine Infantino & Murphy Anderson.
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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today is the birthday of Trina Robbins (Aug. 17, 1938-April 10, 2024.) A writer, artist, editor, & historian, she cocreated Vampirella & helped found Wimmen’s Comix, an anthology that showcased female creators. She also worked on Wonder Woman & wrote several books on women in the comics industry.
A color photo of Robbins.Four books she worked on: It Aint Me Babe (1970), A Century of Women Cartoonists (1993), Flapper Queens (2020), and The Legend of Wonder Woman (1986).
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Dean Willetts @deanscomics.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Marvel Premiere 8• Gardner F Fox, Jim Starlin, Frank Giacoia, Dave Hunt, Jean Izzo, Petra Goldberg 🙂
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BACK ISSUE! Magazine @backissuemagazine.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Justice Society of America gets a photograph taken at their very first official meeting. At the JSA round table sits: The Atom, The Sandman, The Spectre, The Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, Green Lantern and Hourman. Missing: Superman, Batman and Ma Hunkel (The Red Tomato, I mean, Tornado).
The Justice Society of America gets a photograph taken of them sitting at their round table during their first official meeting as a team.

Famous First Edition #F-7 (1975); All-Star Comics #3 (1940) intro splash page.

By Gardner Fox and E.E. Hibbard.
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Jennifer DeRoss (JD) @jenniferdeross.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We had to stop by for some cake to celebrate Books with Pictures Eugene winning the 2026 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award. 🎉 So happy my youngest wanted to come with me. We hit the discount drawers pretty hard. He said he wants to get back into collecting comic books. 🥹
Picture of chocolate cake on a blue and gold plate with a gold fork in front of a celebratory display with blue balloon letters spelling BWP EUG with gold streamers and stars. Paper bag filled with discount comics. Top comic features both Storm and Thor on the cover. It was an automatic pull for my 19 year old.
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 13/08/2026
this is what comics are supposed to look like
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The thing about the comics industry under the boys club, those 60+ victims are probably more “blacklisted” than any of these guys ever will be. Then w/ this announcement, it tells all their future victims, don’t bother either. Never forget, a lot of these victims just wanted to make comics too.
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