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Unusual Tales
US Comic (1955-1965). 49 issues. Charlton Comics. Artists include Vince Alascia, Steve Ditko, Dick Giordano, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Bill Molno and Charles Nicholas. Most of the scripts were by the prolific Joe Gill. 36 pages, except for one double-length issue. Usually 4-5 strips per issue, plus a two-page text story and often one, sometimes two, 1-2 page fiction or ...
Price, Roger [2]
(1941- ) UK author of several Ties for The Tomorrow People, a UK Television series about a group of Mutant children, beginning with The Tomorrow People in The Visitor (1973) with Julian R Gregory. This author should not be confused with Roger (Taylor) Price. [JC]
Ohlander, Ben
(1965- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with the short fantasy "Smoke and Mirrors" in Magic: The Gathering: Tapestries (anth 1995) edited by Kathy Ice and Tied to the Collectible Card Game. His novels are Enemy of My Enemy (1995) with David Drake, a tie (written chiefly by Ohlander) to the ...
Chesney, George T
(1830-1895) UK soldier, founder in 1871 of the Royal Indian Civil Engineering College at Staines, a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1892 for Oxford, and author of some fiction, including the famous The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (May 1871 Blackwood's Magazine; 1871 chap; vt The Fall of England? The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer 1871 chap) [see Checklist for further details on vts] published anonymously, though the ...
Fretland, Don J
(? - ) US author of the Oleandre Trilogy series beginning with The Persimmion Sequence (1970), set in a Near Future Dystopian world where scientists have been driven Underground though – it may be – there is some hope that Mars clings to independence. [JC]
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 ...