Comic historian, writer, and fandom pioneer Richard Lupoff has passed. He was 85.
Lupoff was the co-editor (with Don Thompson of Comic Buyer's Guide fame) of the book All in Color for a Dime, one of the first serious looks at comic book history, and pretty much the starting point for serious comic scholarship.
He also wrote one of the standards about Edgar Rice Burroughs...
and won the 1963 Hugo Award for best fanzine for his Xero zine
He also wrote fiction, including 2 dozen novels and over 40 short stories (he wrote both late 70s Buck Rogers novels, the film adaptation and That Man on Beta under the pen name Addison Steele), but it is his pioneering work in comic scholarship that built his rep and his legacy.
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Lupoff was the co-editor (with Don Thompson of Comic Buyer's Guide fame) of the book All in Color for a Dime, one of the first serious looks at comic book history, and pretty much the starting point for serious comic scholarship.
He also wrote one of the standards about Edgar Rice Burroughs...
and won the 1963 Hugo Award for best fanzine for his Xero zine
He also wrote fiction, including 2 dozen novels and over 40 short stories (he wrote both late 70s Buck Rogers novels, the film adaptation and That Man on Beta under the pen name Addison Steele), but it is his pioneering work in comic scholarship that built his rep and his legacy.
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