Norman Worker (1927 - 5 February 2005) was a British comic book writer, best known for his work on comic books featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom.Norman was born in Kent, England, in 1927. When he was 17 years old, he fought in World War II in India. After that, he worked in his father's furniture factory until it went bankrupt in the 1950s.It was his cousin, Modesty Blaise-creator Peter O'Donnell, who suggested that Norman could become a comic book writer.