Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 – 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, Reginald Browne, and Carlton Ross.
His first major breakthrough came in 1910, when the paper The Gem gave him an assignment to publish a serial named "The Iron Island", the main character being Frank Kingston.
[citation needed] In 1918, he married Frances (daughter of master tailor Abraham Goldstein),[4] who became his assistant and collaborator through the years.
[4] In the 1920s, Brooks created the character of Marko the Miracle Man a scientist/inventor/adventurer who became one of Dixon Hawke's most popular foes.
Debuting in The Glendale Lodge Mystery in The Dixon Hawke Library #116, he matched wits repeatedly with the detective over the next 14 years, until his final appearance in Adventure #1200.