Editing Gardner Fox (section)

==Novels==
Fox wrote both comic book scripts and prose fiction throughout his career. He began writing fiction for the [[pulp magazine]]s and transferred to writing original paperback novels as the market shifted to that format in the 1950s.

During the mid-to-late 1940s, and into the 1950s, Fox wrote a number of short stories and text pieces for ''[[Weird Tales]]'' and ''[[Planet Stories]],'' and was published in ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' and ''Marvel Science Stories.''<ref name="Bails"/> He wrote for a diverse range of [[pulp magazine]]s, including ''Baseball Stories,'' ''Big Book Football Western,'' ''Fighting Western,'' ''Football Stories,'' ''Lariat Stories,'' ''Ace Sports,'' ''SuperScience,'' ''Northwest Romances,'' ''Thrilling Western,'' and ''Ranch Romances'' for a number of publishing companies.<ref name="Bails"/>

His first novel, a historical romance entitled ''The Borgia Blade'', was published by Belmont Books in 1953.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=Gardner |date=1953 |title=The Borgia Blade |url=https://www.gardnerfrancisfoxlibrary.com/borgia-blade-gardner-f-fox |access-date=2022-11-13 |website=The Gardner Francis Fox Library |language=en-US}}</ref> He went on to write novels and short stories using a variety of male and female pseudonyms for a number of publishers, including [[Ace Books|Ace]], Gold Medal, [[Tower Publications]], [[Belmont Books]], [[Dodd Mead]], [[Hillman Periodicals|Hillman]], Pocket Library, [[Pyramid Books]] and [[Signet Books]].<ref name="Bails" />

Fox wrote a pair of [[sword and planet]] novels titled ''Warriors of Llarn'' (1964) and ''Thief of Llarn'' (1966).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/series/52630-alan-morgan|title= Alan Morgan series by Gardner Fox|publisher= [[Goodreads]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064607/https://www.goodreads.com/series/52630-alan-morgan|archive-date= March 4, 2016|url-status= live|df= mdy-all|access-date= June 12, 2014}}</ref>

From 1969 to 1970, [[Belmont Books]] published a series of [[sword and sorcery]] novels by Fox, featuring the barbarian character Kothar. These were '' Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman'', '' Kothar of the Magic Sword'', '' Kothar and the Demon Queen'', ''Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse'' and finally ''Kothar and the Wizard Slayer''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/series/45767-kothar|title= Kothar series by Gardner Fox|publisher= Goodreads|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170227063739/https://www.goodreads.com/series/45767-kothar|archive-date= February 27, 2017|url-status= live|df= mdy-all|access-date= June 11, 2014}}</ref> These were followed in 1976 by another series (published by [[Leisure Books]]) featuring the barbarian Kyrik: '' Kyrik: Warlock Warrior'', '' Kyrik Fights the Demon World'', '' Kyrik and the Wizard's Sword'' and ''Kyrik and the Lost Queen''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/series/43494-kyrik|title= Kyric series by Gardner Fox|publisher= Goodreads|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170227063801/https://www.goodreads.com/series/43494-kyrik|archive-date= February 27, 2017|url-status= live|df= mdy-all|access-date= June 11, 2014}}</ref>

''Kothar and the Conjurer's Curse'' was adapted by Marvel Comics as a six-part [[Conan (Marvel Comics)|Conan]] story, loosely following Fox's plot but with Conan replacing Kothar, starting with ''[[Conan the Barbarian (comics)|Conan the Barbarian]]'' #46 ("The Curse of the Conjurer", Jan. 1975). The story was produced by scripter [[Roy Thomas]] and artists [[John Buscema]], [[Joe Sinnott]], [[Dan Adkins]], and [[Dick Giordano]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Thompson |first=Steven |date=September 2020 |title=Conan Goes to Adventure Town |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aC_6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 |journal=[[Back Issue!]] |location=Raleigh, North Carolina |publisher=[[TwoMorrows Publishing]] |issue=121 |page=6}}</ref>