Fred Guardineer

Fred Guardineer was a comic book writer and graphic artist. He was born in Albany, New York on October 3rd, 1913. He is among the contributors to the future DC Comics' landmark title Action Comics #1, the landmark comic that introduced Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's seminal superhero Superman. There Guardineer wrote, drew and lettering the 12-page feature introducing his magician-hero creation Zatara, a character remaining in the DC stable as of the 21st century. Guardineer was also one of the artists on two features handled previously by Creig Flessel in More Fun Comics: "Pep Morgan" (on which he sometimes used the pseudonym Gene Baxter) and, in Detective Comics, "Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator"