Larry Ivie (1936–2014) was an American

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, writer, and collector who was active in comics

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in the middle part of the 20th century, described by comics historian

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as "the closest thing to an authority on comics that was available in the 1950s."

Biography

Born in

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, to biologist

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and his wife Aleen, he moved to New York City in the mid 1950s to attend the

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, and with a large personal library of comic books and correspondence via

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s became a prominent part of New York comics fan culture. He also made amateur films of superheroes, influencing the amateur films of Donald F. Glut and appearing in two of his films. He provided painted covers and other editorial material for early issues of ''

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'' magazine, then self-published the seven issues of his own newsstand magazine ''Monsters and Heroes'', for which he drew comic stories of his own superhero Altron Boy, in the mid-to-late '60s; had his art published in the magazines ''

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'' and '' If'', co-created the comic book ''

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'', and wrote several stories for

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and the horror magazines ''

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'' and ''

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''. Ivie died of lung cancer in January 2014, aged 77.

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