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Name |
Category |
Credit |
Tenure[hide] |
BAILS, JERRY |
| Name and vital stats |
| | BAILS, JERRY GWIN [1933- ] (writer) | NULL |
| Pen names |
| | ROBERT LINDSEY | NULL |
| Education |
| | B.S., M.A., Ph.D. (physics & mathematics) University of Missouri at Kansas City | NULL |
| | University of Chicago (graduate work) | NULL |
| Member |
| | CAPA-alpha [first comics Amateur Press Association] founder & first central mailer '64 | NULL |
| | Detroit Triple Fan Fair '65 (coined the name) | NULL |
| Print Media (non-comics) |
| | Publisher, Editor & Compiler: 1973-76 Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1st edition in 4 volumes | > 73 74 75 76 |
| | Publisher, Editor & Compiler: 1996-99 Who's Who of American Comic Books, 2nd edition in digital format | > 96 97 98 99 |
| Performing Arts |
| | Editor & Writer: Changing Life on Earth series [educational TV] | NULL |
| Other career notes |
| | Co-founder: Academy of Comic Book Fans & Collectors 1963 | > 63 |
| | Co-founder: with Larry Lattanzi: Who's Who in Comics Fandom 1964 | > 64 |
| | Co-founder: with Roy Thomas of the Alley Awards, first comics awards by fans 1962 | > 62 |
| | Founder: CAPA-alpha [first comics Amateur Press Association] 1964 | > 64 |
| | Founder: Microfilm Library of Comic Art 1964 | > 64 |
| | Professor: Science & Technology, Wayne State University [Detroit] 1960-96 retired | > 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 |
| Additional biography |
| | Alter Ego, the Best of the Legendary Fanzine 1997 | NULL |
| | Fifty Who Made DC Great, 1985 | NULL |
| | Golden Age of Comic Fandom 1995 | NULL |
| Honors |
| | Comics Fandom's Alley Award Favorite Fan Magazine 1961 | > 61 |
| | Diamond Distributors Lifetime Fandom Award 1990 | > 90 |
| | Ed Aprill, Jr. Award (Comic Art Convention, New York City) 1977 | > 77 |
| | Honored Guest: Dallas Comics Con 1973 | > 73 |
| | Inkpot Award (San Diego Comicon) 1981 | > 81 |
| | Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University (Detroit) | NULL |
| | Winner of Victor Wilson Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships for academic excellence all through the 1950s | > 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 |
| | Won cartoon contest in K.C. Journal (Missouri) 1941 | > 41 |
| Note on comics career |
| | Consultant: many books & articles on comic books | NULL |
| | New York Times & Newsweek interviews mid-60s put Comicdom in public eye | > 64 65 66 |
| Fan & trade zines |
| | Alter Ego #1-4 (publ/ed/wr/pen/ink/) 1961-62 originally spelled Alter-Ego | > 61 62 |
| | Alter Ego (contrib/) vol. 2 #5, 1999 | > 99 |
| | Authoritative Index to DC Comics (publ/ed/) 1963/65 | > 63 65 |
| | Collector's Guide: First Heroic Age (publ/ed/) 1969 | > 69 |
| | Comic Reader [On the Drawing Board] (publ/ed/wr/) 1961-64 | > 61 62 63 64 |
| | Comicollector (publ/ed/wr/pen/ink/) 1961-62 | > 61 62 |
| | Guidebook to Comics Fandom [with Bill Spicer] (ed/wr/) 1965 | > 65 |
| | Howard Keltner's Index to Golden Age Comic Books (publ/co-ed/) 1976 | > 76 |
| | Index to All-Star Comics (publ/ed/wr/pen/ink/) 1962 | > 62 |
| | Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide [cover-featured article on JSA] (wr/) 1974 | > 74 |
| | Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide [text for first edition] (wr/) 1970 | > 70 |
| | Panelologist (publ/ed/wr/) 1966-99 | > 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 |
| | Steranko's History of Comics, vol. 2 (asst ed/) 1972 | > 72 |
| DC COMICS |
| | Introduction (wr/) 1993 for ALL-STAR COMICS ARCHIVE volume 2 | > 93 |