Editing Gardner Fox (section)

====Batman====
{{Main article|Batman}}
During July 1939, just two issues after the debut of the character Batman by artist [[Bob Kane]] and scripter [[Bill Finger]], Fox wrote the first of his several tales for that character,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wallace|first1= Daniel|last2=Dolan|first2=Hannah, ed.|chapter= 1930s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]|year=2010|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9 |page= 24|quote = Writer Gardner Fox took over from Finger for a few subsequent installments of the feature and introduced such gadgets as the Batarang and the Batgyro.}}</ref> introducing an early villain in the story "The Batman Meets [[Doctor Death (comics)|Doctor Death]]".<ref name="Death">{{cite web |url= http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/story.php?storyid=3601|title= ''Detective Comics'' #29 'The Batman Meets Doctor Death'|first= Mike|last= Voiles|year= 2015|publisher= Mike's Amazing World of Comics|df=mdy-all|access-date= September 7, 2015}}</ref> Alongside Kane and Finger, Fox contributed to the evolution of the character, including the character's first use of his [[Batman's utility belt|utility belt]], which "contain[ed] choking gas capsules,"<ref name="Death"/> as well as writing the first usages of both the [[Batarang]] and the Batgyro, an [[autogyro]] precursor to the [[Batcopter]], two issues later.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/story.php?storyid=3771|title= ''Detective Comics'' #31 'Batman Vs. the Vampire'|first= Mike|last= Voiles|year= 2015|publisher= Mike's Amazing World of Comics|df=mdy-all|access-date= September 7, 2015}}</ref>

Fox returned to the Batman in 1964. <small>''([[#Silver Age|See below]])''</small>