Jerry Bails
Jerry Gwin Bails was an American popular culturist. Known as the Father of Comic Book Fandom, he was one of the first to approach the comic book field as a subject worthy of academic study, and was a primary force in establishing 1960s comics fandom.
Jerry G. Bails was born June 26, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri. A fan of comic books from a very early age, Bails was a particularly avid fan of AllStar Comics, and its premiere superteam of whom he was a fan since the first Justice Society adventure appeared in AllStar Comics. He wrote in 1960 that by 1945, he began my campaign to collect all the back issues of this magazine , and six years later when the JSA was dropped, started to work towards their revival. In the letters column of Fantastic Four the editor refers to him as one of fandoms most articulate critics.
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