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Fabian, Stephen E
(1930-2025) American artist, sometimes credited as Steve Fabian or simply Fabian. The self-trained Fabian first worked as an electronic engineer, but he began contributing art to Fanzines in the late 1960s and became a full-time professional artist in 1973. He did a number of covers and interior art for SF Magazines, mostly Amazing, Fantastic, and ...
Ahmed, Samira
(? - ) Indian-born author in US from childhood, who began to publish work of genre interest with "Brains Don't Smell" in Entropy Mag for 2016. She is of sf interest for her second novel, the Young-Adult Interment (2019), set in an American very Near Future difficult to distinguish from the tale's year of publication. Young men and women identified as ethnically unsound ...
Shuster, Joe
(1914-1992) Canadian-born US Comics artist who with his high-school classmate Jerry Siegel published the early Amateur Magazine or Fanzine Science Fiction (five issues 1932-1933) and famously created the character Superman, whose debut was in Action Comics #1 for June 1938. See ...
Cass, De Lysle Ferrée
(1887-1973) US author who published fairly widely in American Pulp magazines of the early twentieth century, mostly concentrating on fantasy, and beginning with "Oahula the Carnivorous" (March 1913 All-Story). Of sf interest is his authorship of the eighth of the Airship Boys sequence, The Airship Boys in the Great War; Or, the Rescue of Bob Russell (1915) as by H L Sayler, ...
Mystery Comics
US Comic (1944). Four issues. Wm H Wise & Co. Artists include Ken Battefield, Bob Oksner and Alex Schomburg. Script writers include Joseph Greene and Bob Stanwood. 5 strips per issue. / The stories featuring Superhero Brad Spencer, Wonderman are published in the wrong order: narratively the sequence is #2, #3, #4 and #1. Brad's "body was made tough as ...
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 ...