Scott Goodall

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Scott Goodall
Born7 November 1935 (1935-11-07)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Died7 March 2016 (2016-03-08) (aged 80)
France
NationalityBritish
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
Fishboy

Scott Goodall MBE (7 November 1935 – 7 March 2016) was a British comics writer.

Career

Goodall started out his comics career in the early-to-mid 1960s. He was part of a rotating cast of writers for the spooky strip The Strangest Stories Ever Told, published in School Friend. Goodall wrote Captain Hurricane scripts for Valiant comic from 1963 to 1976.

In 1965, he was heavily involved in the launch of TV Century 21 (TV21) with Alan Fennell and Angus Allan. Goodall wrote the Thunderbirds scripts for two years in TV21, drawn by Frank Bellamy; and also most of the scripts for Zero X, drawn by Mike Noble.

Goodall created and wrote the character

John Stokes), and lesser-known characters such as Splash Gorton (illustrated by Joe Colquhoun). He also wrote Galaxus The Thing From Outer Space for Buster
comic from 1968 to 1976.

Goodall's other well-known scripts include Marney the Fox and the major success Rat-Trap in

Hammer Productions film The Gorgon for House of Hammer issues #11–12, which was illustrated by Trevor Goring and Alberto Cuyas
.

Goodall was a frequent contributor to the 1980s relaunch of

Second World War
.

He was made an MBE in 2005.

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