Help me ID an unfamiliar face from this 1975 convention photo

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  , , , ,     Posted date:  September 25, 2017  |  9 Comments


In 1975, when I was working in the Bullpen at Marvel Comics, I flew to Toronto to appear on a panel at CosmicCon along with Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, and … someone whose name I no longer remember.

Neither does Marv.

And since the reason I dug out this photo was as part of my mourning process for Len, we’ll never know if he might have remembered.

When I recently shared the image on Twitter and Facebook in the hopes someone could identify the face at the far right, suggestions included Bernie Wrightson and Howard Chaykin (I blame the sideburns), but … it wasn’t either of those two.

If you happen to know who that is, please let me know!

UPDATED 9/26/2017: Thanks to Ron Kasman, who wrote this article about the history of CosmicCon, I learned that’s Jim Craig, who worked for Atlas Comics at the time, and went on work for Marvel on such titles as Master of Kung Fu and The 3-D Man.

Here’s a photo of him which appeared a couple of years later in FOOM.

Thanks, Internet, for solving this mystery!





9 Comments for Help me ID an unfamiliar face from this 1975 convention photo


Jim Engel

Jim Novak?

Tom Brevoort

Is that maybe Rich Buckler?

Kirk G

Perhaps he’s a local moderator for a panel? Or are you saying you knew him, but have forgotten him?

    Scott

    From the vantage point of 42 years later, my assumption is he’s someone I did not know on an ongoing basis, but he was someone only there for the panel. I can conjure up an image in my mind of every pro I ever interacted with at Marvel or DC, and every fan I knew back then. So perhaps he was a Canadian writer or artist I never dealt with before. Perhaps he was only the fan moderator. I have no idea.

Michael Borelli

Loks like Gerard Jones.

doug rogers

Hey! I know it ain’t no great shakes, but I was probably in the audience at that panel!

    Scott

    I hope we were entertaining! 😉