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Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
US animated tv series (1981-1983). Marvel Productions for NBC-TV. Based on characters created by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Stan Lee. Produced by Dennis Marks. Directors included Dan Jurwich, Rob Richardson. Writers included Donald F Glut, Marks, Christy Marx and Michael Reaves. Cast includes June Foray, Kathy Garver, Dan ...
Freeman, Gaail
(? - ) US author of Alien Thunder (1982), which is Young Adult sf. [JC]
Jones, Margaret
(? - ) UK author and lecturer in human communication studies. In The Day They Put Humpty Together Again (1968; vt Transplant 1968) prosthetic-surgery techniques are used to wire an artist's head to a criminal's libidinous torso. Through the Budgerigar (1970) is a Satirical fantasy. [JC]
Kingston, Agnes Kinloch
(1824-1913) UK linguist and translator, married from 1853 until his death to W H G Kingston, who published her translations of Jules Verne and Johann Wyss under his own name without acknowledgement; for some later work she signed herself Agnes D Kingston. These translations, which have been properly faulted for expurgations and inaccuracies, were typical of Victorian workmanship in this ...
Futuristic Tales
Australian letter-size magazine published by Don Boyd (1945-1999) and Ray Maultsaid (who was also the editor-in-chief) from Sydney, New South Wales. It ran for five issues, the first undated (March 1980) to February 1982. It was a strange mixture of weird facts and immature sf. Boyd was a dedicatee of strange phenomena and the unexplained (the province of Charles Fort), and this flavoured the first issue; later issues saw some development of sf with a stronger ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...