Editing Eando Binder (section)

==Overview==
By 1939, Otto had taken over all of the writing, leaving Earl to act as his [[literary agent]].<ref>Otto Binder, [http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0256503202/writers_binder.htm Autobiographical afterword to "I, Robot"], from the January 1939 issue of ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050829093254/http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0256503202/writers_binder.htm |date=August 29, 2005 }}</ref> Under his own name, Otto wrote for the [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]] line of [[comic books]] published by [[Fawcett Comics]] (1941–1953) and the [[Superman]] line for [[Detective Comics]] (1948–1969), as well as numerous other publishers, with credited stories numbering over 4400.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/writer/name/Otto%20Binder/sort/alpha/|title=GCD :: Story Search Results|website=www.comics.org|access-date=July 10, 2018}}</ref> The pen-name Eando Binder is also credited with over 160 comic book stories.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comics.org/writer/name/Eando%20Binder/sort/alpha/|title = GCD :: Story Search Results}}</ref>

Otto Binder was born in Chicago and moved to New York in 1936. He worked as a [[literary agent]] for [[Otis Adelbert Kline]] for a year, then became a free-lance writer. He sold his first story in 1930 and 129 more during the next decade. He lived in [[Englewood, New Jersey]], from 1944 until he moved to Chestertown in 1968.<ref name=OttoObit>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/492936683/?terms=%22eando%20binder%22&match=1 "Otto Binder, 63, Writer in Science-Fiction Field," ''The Record,'' Hackensack, New Jersey, October 16, 1974, image 48]</ref> Otto Binder attended [[Crane College]] in Chicago and told ''Amazing Stories'' he was once "an amateur chemist with a home laboratory."<ref name=MeetThe>"Meet the Authors," ''Amazing Stories,'' June 1938, page 7</ref>

He wrote comic-book scripts, novels, and magazine articles. His books included ''Riddles of Astronomy, Careers in Space,'' and ''Mankind, Child of the Stars.''<ref name=OttoObit/>

He was a member of the Journal of American Literature, the American Rocket Society, the American Interplanetary Society, the National Space Flight Association, and the Aerospace Writers Association.<ref name=OttoObit/>

He died October 14, 1974, and was survived by his wife, Ione; a brother, Jack, and two sisters, Marie Hackstock of Chicago and Teresa Samuelson of Estes Park, Colorado.<ref name=OttoObit/>

Earl Binder worked as a mechanical parts inspector for a "large industrial concern" during the 1930s.<ref name=MeetThe/>