August 2012

The San Diego Comic Fest (October 19-21, 2012) is proud to pay tribute to Ken Krueger (1926-2009). A member of science-fiction’s First Fandom, as a teenage fan Ken attended the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. In succeeding decades he played a significant role in fandom, was a pioneering small-press publisher, and a mail-order […]

Ken and me

August 22, 2012

By W. Paul Ganley I fear that the above title should be “Me and Ken,” since I think this essay may be more about me than about Ken. Well.… At the beginning of the year 1950, I was finishing my last year and a half of high school. I had been reading pulp science-fiction magazines […]