Morgan Botts

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

One of the leading figures of the fan world in the last half of the Twentieth Century, and later a BNF of post-Blowup fandom, according to the way he tells it in 2000 AD. Central character in an immensely popular fan fiction series by Art Rapp. The Morgan Botts Foundation, however, is a Detroitfan chatter and bheer group.

From Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement, ca. 1960

His earliest artistic portrayal was by Fred Reich's mother, who provided a cake (for a meeting held at Fred's house), with a picture of Morgan Botts on it in colored icing.

Botts, a beer-guzzling bum who had at one time, back in the 1950s and ’60s, been a famous fan and editor, premiered in summer 1947 in two lively sketches in a 20-page one-shot from Art Rapp and Bill Groover titled Bembook. "The Man Who Murdered Fandom" and "Whiffingham's Revenge" were the titles of the first two Bottstories and, presumably, they either won unexpected favor with Bembook readers or else captured their creator's fancy, for Botts forthwith moved to Spacewarp. "Anniversary," the next Botts tale, appeared in the September 1947 issue of Spacewarp.

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