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Basil Dickey
script_department, writer
- Born:
- 1880-11-23, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died:
- 1958-06-17, Long Beach, California, USA
- Professions:
- script_department, writer
Biography
Chicago welcomed Basil Dickey on 23 November 1880, and from that windy city springboard he launched a career scripting cliff-hangers that kept Saturday-matinée audiences gasping. Serials became his playground: in 1940 he pitted Flash Gordon against planetary doom in *Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe*, tightened the mask on Marvel’s first screen hero for 1944’s *Captain America*, and later cooked up the ghostly mastermind haunting 1946’s *The Crimson Ghost*. Sixty-seven years after his first breath, Dickey’s final scene rolled on 17 June 1958 in sun-washed Long Beach, California, leaving behind reels of pulp immortality.
