| Creator Otto Binder (1911-1974) |
| Profession Writer |
| Total Entries 33 |
| Articles Otto Biner – Lambiek Comiclopedia Otto Binder – Wikipedia Remembering Otto Binder, Comics’ Forgotten Genius – Comics Alliance |
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By 1930, Binder was contributing science fiction stories to such magazines as Amazing Stories, in collaboration with his older brother Earl. Together they wrote under the pen name Eando Binder (“E” and “O”; Otto would continue to use this pseudonym for his prose science fiction work even long after he stopped collaborating with Earl). Failing to make enough money to live on as a science fiction writer, Binder worked in various jobs, including as a literary agent, until he followed his older brother Jack, an artist — and the creator of the original Golden Age Daredevil — into comics in 1939. After a year of working at the studio of Harry ‘A’ Chesler, Binder would find himself at the publisher where he would first make his mark, Fawcett Comics. At first Binder was assigned to write for such Fawcett characters as Bulletman, Golden Arrow, and El Carim, but by 1941, he was given a chance to work on Fawcett’s flagship character, Captain Marvel, and there is where he really began to shine… Binder’s scripting on Fawcett’s Marvel Family titles exhibited a playfulness that was a perfect match for the child’s wish-fulfillment narrative at the heart of the Captain Marvel story. His storytelling had the verve and improvisational dream logic of a child at play: in any given story, Cap was just as likely to enter a fairy world or a dimension of surrealist art, or as likely to punch an entire planet as to knock out a Nazi. It was this sense of whimsy and a childlike-but-never-childish approach to storytelling that made Captain Marvel Adventures the best-selling comic of the Golden Age… ~ Remembering Otto Binder, Comics’ Forgotten Genius – Comics Alliance
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