The Swoop! [SEP] publisher
The Swoop!
The Swoop!, or How Clarence Saved England is a short comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom by Alston Rivers Ltd, London, on April 16, 1909. Its subtitle is "A Tale of the Great Invasion".
An adapted and much abbreviated version, set in the United States, appeared in the July and August 1915 issues of "Vanity Fair" under the title "The Military Invasion of America" and with the subtitle "A Remarkable Tale of
of Hawkman, Fox recalled, "I was faced with the problem of filling a new book that publisher Max Gaines was starting... As I sat by the window I noticed a bird collecting twigs for a nest. The bird would swoop down, pick up the twig, and fly away. I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if the bird was a lawman and the twig a crook!'"
Debuting as the third story in "Flash Comics" #1 (Jan. 1940) — "Fox's