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Houstoncon
Houstoncon was an annual multi-genre fan convention which was held between 1967 and 1982 in Houston, Texas. The founders of Houstoncon were Roy Bonario and Marc Schooley; Houston area entrepreneur Ed Blair, Jr. was also a key member of the organizing committee. Most Houstoncons took place over three days in June, from Friday to Sunday. The convention featured a large range of pop culture elements, primarily comic books but also television serials, science fiction/fantasy (particularly '' Star Trek''), film/television, animation, toys, and horror. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, the Houstoncon often featured screenings of old television serials, and such evening events as a costume contest. The convention featured a large floorspace for exhibitors, including comic book dealers and collectibles merchants. The show included an autograph area, as well as an Artists' Alley where comics artists signed autographs and sold or did free sketches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 In Comics
Events and publications January * January 3: The first episode of Bunny Matthews' comic series ''Vic and Nat'ly'' appears in print. The series will run until 2005. * 29-31 January: During the Angoulême International Comics Festival Claire Bretécher becomes the first woman to win the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême. * Warren Publishing suspends publication. *'' DC Comics Presents'' #41 features an insert previewing the new ''Wonder Woman'' creative team of writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan as well as an update of the character's costume. * ''House of Mystery'' #300: "Special Thrill-Filled 300th Issue," edited by Karen Berger. (DC Comics) * ''Phantom Zone'' #1 (of a four-issue limited series), by Steve Gerber, Gene Colan, and Tony DeZuniga; published by DC Comics. * '' Marvel Super-Heroes'' (1967 series), with issue #105, cancelled by Marvel. * " Apocalypse War" Judge Dredd storyline begins in '' 2000 AD.'' (continues through July) * The seventh issue of Jan Buc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Beerbohm
Robert Lee Beerbohm (born June 17, 1952) is an American comic book historian and retailer who has been intimately involved with the rise of comics fandom since 1966. Beginning as a teenager in the late 60s, he became a fixture in the growing comic convention scene, while in the 1970s and 1980s he was heavily involved in Bay Area comic book retailing and distribution. Beerbohm has been a consultant and author detailing the early history of comics in the United States, including rediscovering the first comic book in America, Rodolphe Töpffer's '' The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck''. He has supplied data and visual aids as listed in the acknowledgements of over 200 books on comics and counting. Early life Beerbohm attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1970 – 1972.Beerbohm LinkedIn profile Accessed May 29, 2012. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 In Comics
Events and publications January * January 11: The final issue of the Flemish children's magazine ''Pum-Pum'' is published. * January 17: Greg and William Vance's ''Bruno Brazil'' makes its debut. * January 17: Greg and Eddy Paape's '' Luc Orient'' makes its debut. * January 20: The Rolling Stones release their album '' Between the Buttons''. On the back cover a comic strip drawn by drummer Charlie Watts can be seen. * January 21: The first issue of the British comics magazine '' Pow!'' is published. It will run until 13 January 1968. * January 21: The first issue of the British girls' comics magazine '' Mandy'' is published. It will run until 1991.Mandy (26pigs.com) * '' Blackhawk'' #228, the beginning of "the New Blackhawk Era" — in the is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Benedict
William Benedict (April 16, 1917 – November 25, 1999), was an American actor, perhaps best known for playing "Whitey" in Monogram Pictures' The Bowery Boys series. Early years Benedict was born in Haskell, Oklahoma, After his father's death when Billy was three years old, his mother supported him and his two sisters. He took part in school theatricals, and on leaving school he made his way to Hollywood. Career Benedict's first film was ''$10 Raise'' (1935) starring Edward Everett Horton, which launched the blond-haired young man on a busy career. He almost always played juvenile roles, such as newsboys, messengers, office boys, and farmhands. In 1939, when Universal Pictures began its Little Tough Guys series to compete with the popular Dead End Kids features, Billy Benedict was recruited into the cast. These films led him into the similar East Side Kids movies (usually playing a member of the East Side gang, but occasionally in villainous roles). The East Side Kids ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Takei
George Takei (; ja, ジョージ・タケイ; born Hosato Takei (武井 穂郷), April 20, 1937) is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the fictional starship USS ''Enterprise'' in the television series ''Star Trek'' and subsequent films. Takei was born to Japanese American parents, with whom he lived in U.S.-run internment camps during World War II. He began pursuing acting in college, which led in 1965 to the role of Sulu, to which he returned periodically into the 1990s. Upon coming out as gay in 2005, he became a prominent proponent of LGBT movements, LGBT rights and active in state and local politics. He has been a vocal advocate of the rights of immigrants, in part through his work on the 2012 Broadway theatre, Broadway show ''Allegiance (musical), Allegiance'', about the internment experience. Although Takei was born and raised in California, he spoke both English and Japanese language, Japanese growing up and remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Steele (stuntman)
Tom Steele (born Thomas Skeoch, 12 June 1909 – 30 October 1990) was a stunt man and actor, best remembered for appearing in serials, especially those produced by Republic Pictures, in both capacities. Early life Born in Scotland, he was the son of a construction consulting engineer. Steele came to America with his family at an early age, settling in Northern California. A very skilled horseman, he played polo competitively as a young man and also worked for a time in a steel mill, which was the source of his professional name Tom "Steele." Steele was a student at Stanford University, where he had a football scholarship. Film career At the start of the Depression he relocated to Hollywood to become an actor, and made his film debut in 1930 in the Western '' The Lone Star Ranger''. But soon Steele, relying on his skill as a horseman (he had played polo professionally with the San Mateo Redcoats), changed to stunts for better money and regular work. Despite this he c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Mahoney
Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney (February 7, 1919 – December 14, 1989), known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two Action/Adventure television series, ''The Range Rider'' and ''Yancy Derringer''. He played Tarzan in two feature films and was associated in various capacities with several other Tarzan productions. He was credited variously as Jacques O'Mahoney, Jock O'Mahoney, Jack Mahoney, and finally Jock Mahoney. Early life, education, and military service Mahoney was born in Chicago, Illinois and reared in Davenport, Iowa. He was of French and Irish descent, the only child of Ruth and Charles O'Mahoney. He entered the University of Iowa in Iowa City and excelled at swimming and diving, but dropped out to enlist in the United States Marine Corps when World War II began. He served as a pilot, flight instructor, and war correspondent. Career After his discharge from the Marine Corps, Mahoney moved to Los Angeles, and for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Fredericks
Harold "Fred" Fredericks, Jr. (August 9, 1929 – March 10, 2015) was an American cartoonist who drew the '' Mandrake the Magician'' comic strip from June 1965, taking over for the late Phil Davis. Creator Lee Falk modernized the comic when Fredericks took over the strip, making it more reality-based by focusing less on science fiction and fantasy, and making Mandrake operate more like a secret agent, often helping out the police with cases they could not solve.Dallas, Keith, and Wells, John. ''American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-69''. Raleigh, NC., TwoMorrows Publishing, 2014. (p.56) Fredericks is also well known for inking ''The Phantom'' Sunday strips 1995 to 2000 (pencilled by George Olesen); Graham Nolan succeeded Fredericks when he decided to concentrate fully on Mandrake. He was also known for writing the comic strip "Rebel" for Scholastic Magazine from 1964 to the early 1990s, and for drawing the following comic books: '' Nancy'', ''Boris Karloff'', ''The Twilight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Adkins
Danny L. AdkinsDanny L. Adkins at the via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved December 30, 2013. Adkins' death date is sometimes given erroneously as March 8, which was instead the date on which his death the week earlier had been announced. (March 15, 1937 – May 3, 2013) was an American illustrator who worked mainly for comic books and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Koenig
Walter Marvin Koenig (; born September 14, 1936) is an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid 1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast ''Star Trek'' films. He has also acted in several other series and films including '' Goodbye, Raggedy Ann'' (1971), '' The Questor Tapes'' (1974), and ''Babylon 5'' (1993). In addition to his acting career, Koenig has made a career in writing as well and is known for working on '' Land of the Lost'' (1974),'' Family'' (1976), '' What Really Happened to the Class of '65?'' (1977) and '' The Powers of Matthew Star'' (1982). Early life Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman Isadore Koenig and his wife Sarah (née Strauss). They moved to the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan when Walter was a child, where he went to school. Koenig's parents w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Plant
Bud Plant was a wholesale comics distributor active in the 1970s and 1980s during the growth of the direct market. He also published a selection of comics and zines during the same period. Starting in 1970 as a mail-order distributor specializing in underground comix, Plant absorbed some of his smaller rivals in the 1980s, and then sold his business to Diamond Comics Distributors in 1988. He still, as Bud Plant's Art Books, sells quality reprints and graphic novels. History Origins Plant (born 1952) was a comics and illustrated books enthusiast from San Jose, California, who throughout his high school years bought and sold back issue comic books through ads in fanzines such as '' Rocket's Blast''/''ComicCollector''. In 1968 he co-founded Seven Sons Comic Shop with five friends, John Barrett, Jim Buser, Mike Nolan, Frank Scadina, and Tom Tallmon, in San Jose. Selling Seven Sons within a year, Plant along with Barrett, Buser, and Dick Swan later opened another San Jose-base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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