Jerry Bails (b. 1933)

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Name:

Jerry Bails Type: Common Alternative Name

Other Names:

1. Jerry Baik Type: Pen Name
   
2. Jerry G. Bails Type: Common Alternative Name
   
3. Jerry Gwin Bails Type: Name at Birth
   Given name: Jerry Gwin Family name: Bails
4. Robert Lindsey Type: Pen Name
   

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Schools:

1. University of Chicago ? to ?

   Notes: Graduate work.

2. University of Missouri [Kansas City] ? to ?

   Notes: Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in physics, Master of Arts (M.A.) in mathematics, and Doctorate (Ph.D.) in natural science.

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Memberships:

1. Apa-I Type: member Duration: 1977 - ?

2. CAPA-alpha Type: member Duration: 1964 - ?
   Notes: Founder and first central mailer.

3. Detroit Triple Fan Fair Type: member Duration: 1965 - ?
   Notes: Coined name of organization and convention.

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Non Comics Works:

1. Publication Title: Alter Ego (magazine) - Role: assistant - Year: 2000
   Employer Name : TwoMorrows
   Notes: Contributor to Alter Ego (TwoMorrows, 1999 series), Volume 2, #5, (June 2000). Work done in 1999.

2. Publication Title: Alter-Ego (Alter Ego) (magazine) - Role: editor - Years: 1961 - 1962
   Employer Name : self-published
   Notes: Publisher, editor, writer, penciller, and inker.

3. Publication Title: Authoritative Index to DC Comics (magazine) - Role: editor - Years: 1963; 1965
   Employer Name : self-published
   Notes: Publisher and editor.

4. Publication Title: Changing Life on Earth (television) - Role: editor
   Employer Name : Public Television
   Notes: Editor and writer.

5. Publication Title: Collector's Guide: First Heroic Age (magazine) - Role: editor - Year: 1969
   Employer Name : self-published
   Notes: Publisher and editor.

6. Publication Title: Comicollector (magazine) - Role: editor - Years: 1961 - 1962
   Employer Name : self-published
   Notes: Publisher, editor, writer, penciller, and inker.

7. Publication Title: Guidebook to Comics Fandom (magazine) - Role: editor - Year: 1965
   Employer Name : self-published with with Bill Spicer
   Notes: Editor and writer. Worked with Bill Spicer on the title.

8. Publication Title: Howard Keltner's Index to Golden Age Comic Books (magazine) - Role: employee - Year: 1976
   Employer Name : self-published
   Notes: Publisher and co-edited the book with author, Howard Keltner.

9. Publication Title: Index to All-Star Comics (magazine) - Role: editor - Year: 1962
   Employer Name : 1962
   Notes: Publisher, editor, writer, penciller, and inker.

10. Publication Title: On the Drawing Board (Comic Reader) (magazine) - Role: editor - Years: 1961 - 1964
    Employer Name : self-published
    Notes: Publisher, editor, and writer.

11. Publication Title: Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (book) - Role: writer - Year: 1970
    Employer Name : Robert Overstreet
    Notes: Writer of text in the first edition of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.

12. Publication Title: Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (book) - Role: writer - Year: 1974
    Employer Name : Robert Overstreet
    Work Title: Justice Society of America
    Notes: Cover-featured article for Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Volume 4, 1974.

13. Publication Title: Panelologist (magazine) - Role: editor - Years: 1966 - 1999
    Employer Name : self-published
    Notes: Publisher, writer, and editor of his own comic fanzine which in later years primarily served as a vehicle for developing Bails' loose paper then later online Who's Who in American Comic Books.

14. Publication Title: Steranko's History of Comics (book) - Role: editor - Year: 1972
    Employer Name : Crown Publishing Group
    Notes: Assistant editor of the Steranko's History of Comics, Volume 2. Much of the content relating to Comic Studios was written or rewritten by Bails.

15. Publication Title: Who's Who of American Comic Books (magazine) - Role: editor - Years: 1973 - 1976
    Employer Name : self-published
    Notes: Publisher, editor, and compiler. First edition was in four volumes. Actual work on the Who's Who began in the late 1940s when Bails' began compiling creator information on All-Star Comics.

16. Publication Title: Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928-1999 (other) - Role: editor - Years: 1996 - 2006
    Employer Name : self-published
    Notes: Publisher, editor, and compiler. Second edition, first in loose-leaf paper mailings and then later in digital format which became the website bailsprojects.com, and continued right up to Bails' death. Serves as the basis to the creator tables for the Grand Comics Database.