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MOORE, Don
MOORE, Don. (Dubuque, IA, abt. 1912-- ). Writer. Moore was able to foresee the atomic bomb in 1934, space travel, and missile systems. Between 1934 and 1954, he was the "idea man" for the comic heroes "Flash Gordon" and "Jungle Jim." Moore wrote the story line and described the action.
Moore was the son of a U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Iowa when he lived on West 11th Street in Dubuque. He graduated from DUBUQUE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in 1919 at the top of his class and later graduated second in his class at Dartmouth.
Moore spent two years working with the Miami, Florida news media, six years with Argosy magazine, and eight years with Cosmopolitan before serving two years with the military in public relations at the Pentagon. He returned to civilian life working four years with Warner Brothers in Hollywood, three years with CBS, one year with RKO Pictures in Hollywood and five years with trade magazines. During his last years of writing, Moore wrote television scripts for 'Death Valley Days," "Sea Hunt,", "Rawhide," "Studio One," and "Captain Video."