Mr. Freeze creator has died

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http://blog.newsarama.com/2007/08/21...r-freeze-dies/

Max Hodge, the writer who transformed Bob Kane’s Mr. Zero into the “ice suit”-wearing Mr. Freeze for the 1960s Batman TV series, died Aug. 17. He was 91.

Hodge wrote for several TV shows in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, including Mission: Impossible, Ironside, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, The Waltons and CHiPs. He also was an associate producer and writer for The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.

But comic-book fans know him best as the writer of four episodes of William Dozier’s Batman series, including “Deep Freeze,” which introduced the supervillain Mr. Freeze. Previously, a freeze gun-toting character named Mr. Zero had made his debut in Batman #121 (February 1959). For the TV show, Hodge renamed him Mr. Freeze and placed him in the now-trademark “ice suit” that keeps his body temperature below freezing and allows him to survive. Mr. Freeze was played by George Sanders, Otto Preminger and Eli Wallach.

The retooled Mr. Freeze then made the jump back into comics, where he joined Batman’s regular rogues gallery.