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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Mitchell, Clyde
A Ziff-Davis House Name, 1956-1957, used twice by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett in collaboration, twice by Henry Slesar (confirmed by Slesar himself), and once by Harlan Ellison on "The Wife Factory" (November 1957 Fantastic). [PN/MA]
Adventure in the Center of the Earth
Mexican film (1965). Producciones Sotomayor. Original title Aventura al Centro de la Tierra. Directed by Alfredo B Crevenna. Written by José María Fernández Unsáin. Cast includes Carlos Cortés, Columba Domínguez, Kitty de Hoyos, José Elías Moreno, David Reynoso and Javier Solís. 79 minutes. Black and white. / Opening with a brief history of zoology since Aristotle, we are informed that ...
Planet of the Apes [comic]
US letter-size saddle-stapled Comics-format magazine printed on newsprint. Published by Marvel Comics under their Curtis Magazines subsidiary imprint. Editor: Roy Thomas. 29 monthly issues, 1974 to 1977. / Licensed to Marvel Comics in 1974, this Tie may have been the company's most successful black-and-white comics-format SF Magazine of the 1970s. Adapting ...
Silver Streak Comics
US Comic (1939-1942; 1946). Your Guide Publications Inc, New Friday Publications Inc, Comic House Inc. 23 issues. Artists include Jack Binder, Dick Briefer, Don Rico and Bob Wood. Script writers include Otto Binder (see Eando Binder), Dick Briefer, Leslie Charteris, Carl Formes, Don Rico and Dick Wood. 68 pages per issue (fewer in #22 and #23), usually with 7-9 long ...
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...