Hammond Edward Fisher (September 24, 1900 (some sources indicate 1901) – December 27, 1955) was an American comic strip writer and cartoonist who signed his work Ham Fisher. He is best known for his popular long-run on Joe Palooka, which was launched in 1930 and ranked as one of the top five newspaper comics strips for several years.Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Ham Fisher dropped out of school at the age of 16 to work as a brush peddler and truck driver before finding employment as a reporter and ad salesman for the Wilkes-Barre Record and then moving on to a job with the New York Daily News.
He lived in a Spanish-styled mansion on South Lake Shore Drive in Carol Beach in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Boxer Joe Louis often trained there, arriving by Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurban trains at the Tobin Road station. In the summer of 1954, a year before his death by suicide, Fisher's mansion was destroyed by a massive "northeaster" storm off Lake Michigan, although the empty shell of the house remained for some years thereafter.
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Creator of comic strip "Joe Palooka."
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The Joe Palooka Story
TV Series creator - 25 episodes, 1954 - 1955 comic strip - 5 episodes, 1954