| E. Nelson Bridwell | |
 Caricature of E. Nelson Bridwell by Dave Manak (c. 1976) |
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| Birth name | Edward Nelson Bridwell |
| Born | 1931 Sapulpa, Oklahoma |
| Died | January 23, 1987 |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
E. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sapulpa is a city in Creek and Tulsa counties in the US state of Oklahoma. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Nelson Bridwell was a writer for Mad magazine and various comic books published by DC Comics. Mad is a monthly American Humor Magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952 A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company He was one of the writers for the Batman comic strip and, in a cartoon in Mad, wrote the now famous catch phrase, "What you mean we, white man". Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist A catch phrase (or catchphrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance Bridwell was noted for possessing an encyclopaedic knowledge of various comics-related trivia.
Career
His first published work consisted of text pages in comics published by the American Comics Group in the late 1940s. He began working for DC Comics in 1965 as an assistant to editor Mort Weisenberg, and went on to write features such as The Inferior Five, Super Friends and The Secret Six. The Inferior Five (or I5) are a Parody Superhero team that premiered in the DC Comics title Showcase #62 (1966 Super Friends is an American Animated television series about a team of Superheroes which ran from 1973 to 1986 on ABC as part The Secret Six is the name of three distinct Fictional Comic book teams in the DC Comics universe, plus an alternate universe's fourth He contributed numerous scripts for Shazam!, Superman, and The Legion of Super-Heroes. Captain Marvel is a fictional Comic book Superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon This is about the DC Comics superhero team For the animated television series based on this see Legion of Super Heroes (TV series. His love and knowledge of old comics led to his becoming editor on numerous reprint books, including digests, giant-size comics, and hardcover anthologies, as well as becoming an assistant editor for Julius Schwartz, on the various Superman titles, keeping track of continuity amongst the endless volume of Superman family stories published. Julius "Julie" Schwartz ( June 19, 1915 – February 8, 2004) was a Jewish Comic book and Pulp magazine
He wrote Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew in The Oz/Wonderland War trilogy, as well as occasional stories for the black-and-white horror comics Creepy and Eerie, published by Warren Publications. Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! is a DC Comics Comic book about a team of Funny animal Superheroes called the Zoo Crew Oz is a fairy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865 is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known under the Pseudonym Lewis
Following his death on January 23, 1987, his papers were acquired by the McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa in 1989. Events 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) The University of Tulsa is a Private university awarding bachelors masters and doctoral degrees located in Tulsa Oklahoma. [1]
Homages
- In Watchmen, Captain Metropolis was named "Nelson Gardner" as a tribute to Bridwell and to Gardner Fox. Watchmen is a twelve-issue Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins Captain Metropolis (Born 1920 Died 1974 is a Fictional character appearing in the Watchmen Comic book Limited series published by Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (Speed Saunders was initially credited to "E
- Astro City #5 featured a shapeshifting Enelsian, disguised as "Mr Bridwell". Kurt Busiek's Astro City is a Comic book series centered around a fictional American city of that name
Awards and honors
He was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame in October 2005.
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