Ed Cox

(November 6, 1929 – December 9, 1997)

Ed Cox, nicknamed Edco, was a longtime LA fan, member of N3F, LASFS, the ISL, The Petards, and other SF clubs. At one time, he was on the N3F Board of Directors and a member of the Activity Party.

He was born in the Cambridge, MA area and moved to Maine in his teens where he discovered fandom. He was a serious collector and joined the N3F. He moved to Los Angeles and lived in the slanshack Telekinetic Terrace, drove the Green Hornet, and helped to try to form MAPA. He was one of the inventors of Roscoe. He ran for TAFF in 1968. He was one of the original members of CAPA. He was married to fellow fan Anne Cox.

• A short piece he wrote about himself in Walter Coslet's Snix

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Acrux (for SFPA)
• Altair
• Auslander (with Dave Hulan)
• Chigger Patch of Fandom
• Esdacyos
• Fafhrd [1955–58] (with Ron Ellik)
• A Fanzine In... [1973] (for FAPA)
• Maine-iac [1950s and ’60s] (for SAPS and FAPA)
• Not This August [1985] (for FAPA)
• STF Broadcasts Again!
• Triton
• Unabashed Plug [1972] (with Dave Locke)
• Valhalla [1950] (some issues)

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Person

1929—1997

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