[3] By then he was already writing for some of the earliest American comic books to be published, beginning with a two-page "Pals and Pastimes" humor strip, illustrated by Ray Gill, in Centaur Publications' Funny Pages #7 (Dec.
[7] As the new decade began, Broome wrote science-fiction stories for DC, both standalone tales—including "The Mind Robbers", in Mystery in Space #1 (May 1951), under the pseudonym Robert Stark—and continuing-character features, such as "Astra" (in Sensation Comics, one story of which teamed him with his future regular artist collaborator, Gil Kane), and "Captain Comet", which he created with penciler Carmine Infantino in Strange Adventures #9 (June 1951).
[4][8] For the latter he used the pen name Edgar Ray Merritt, devised by his friend and editor Julius Schwartz, as a nod to fantasy writers Poe, Bradbury, and Abraham.
[2] Outside that genre, he wrote a large number of stories for the crime comics anthology Big Town, based on the radio and television shows.
[4][10] With the dawn of what fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books, Broome was instrumental in writing stories of two key characters who helped revive the moribund archetype of the superhero.
[4][12][13] He co-created several of the character's primary supervillain antagonists[3] including Captain Boomerang in issue #117 (Dec. 1960),[14] the 64th century villain Abra Kadabra in #128 (May 1962),[15] and Professor Zoom in #139 (Sept.
[4] Broome's stories for the Green Lantern series included transforming Hal Jordan's love interest, Carol Ferris, into the Star Sapphire in issue #16.
[26] In 1964, Schwartz was made responsible for reviving the faded Batman titles[27] and together with Broome and Infantino jettisoned the sillier aspects that had crept into the franchise such as Ace the Bathound and Bat-Mite and gave the character a "New Look" that premiered in Detective Comics #327 (May 1964).
[3] An homage to Broome and artist Gil Kane appears in the novel In Darkest Night, which is set in the universe of the Justice League animated series.
[37] A character named Nathan Broome was created Jeremy Adams and Alejandro Germanico Benito Gonzalez also known as Xermanico in the Dawn of DC Green Lantern.
He was Carol Farris's new boyfriend and fiancé, but she still had feelings for Hal and before they could vow at a superhero theme chapel in Las Vagas, She realized Hal was in need of help when her Star Sapphire ring appears in front of her, and she left Nathan brokenhearted at the altar and the emotional spectrum of sadness found Nathan and he became villain known as the Sorrow Lantern and he vowed that everyone would feel his pain and sadness.