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Bill Schelly

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in Walla Walla, Washington, The United States

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Biography, Gay and Lesbian, Nonfiction

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BILL SCHELLY is the Eisner Award-winning author of HARVEY KURTZMAN, THE MAN WHO CREATED MAD AND REVOLUTIONIZED HUMOR IN AMERICA, voted Best Comics-Related Book of 2015. He began researching the history of comic fandom in 1991, resulting in the book The Golden Age of Comic Fandom (1995), then became associate editor of Alter Ego magazine, a post he holds to the present day. Schelly has written several biographies of film and comics artists, including movie comedian Harry Langdon and comic book scribe Otto Binder, co-creator of Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes. In 2008, he authored Man of Rock, a biography of celebrated comics writer-artist Joe Kubert. Schelly's American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950’S (2013) was nominated for a Har ...more

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	Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor 4.36 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons by Bill Schelly (Goodreads Author), Wallace Wood (Artist), Steve Ditko (Artist) 4.35 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary by Bill Schelly (Goodreads Author), Richard A. Lupoff (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sense of Wonder: A Life in Comic Fandom 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s: 1950-1959 by Bill Schelly (Goodreads Author), Harvey Kurtzman (Artist), Carl Barks (Artist) 4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert 4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Stanley: Giving Life To Little Lulu by Bill Schelly (Goodreads Author), John Stanley 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The golden age of comic fandom it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fandom's Finest Comics Vol. 2 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My next book, Sense of Wonder, My Life in Comic Fandom--The Whole Story, will be published by North Atlantic Books on April 17, 2018. For those who may have a book that was published in 2001 with almost the same title, I want to explain. This NEW one is not a re-issue of the original book. It consists of a revised version of the first book, where my story leaves off in 1974, PLUS a "book 2" of equ Read more of this blog post »

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