Brian Earl Brown

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Brian Earl Brown, a fan living in Detroit, has been active since the 1970s. He was originally from Mishawaka, Indiana.

His fanzines were known for their often bad mimeography and the distinctive square font of his typer. He was at one time possibly the single most active letterhack in the lettercols of various Marvel Comics titles.

He was OE of the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, MiSHAP, and REHUPA and was a member of the Wayne Third Foundation for which he edited some issues of Seldon's Plan. He ran the two last Ditto conventions. He was a member of the Detroit in '85 NASFiC bid and FAPA.

He is the publisher of Beb Books, inexpensive, limited-run chapbooks reprinting classic pulp stories, including several classic SF stories. He’s married to fellow fan and W3Fer Denice Brown.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Backfire [mid 70s]
• Brown Paper Wrapper [mid 70s]
• Brownian Motion [mid 70s-mid 80s] (for FAPA)
• The Continuous Brian Earl Brown [late 70s]
• The Derek Carter Alphabet [1978]
• Fapamentary [1980s] (for FAPA)
• Hidalgo [mid 90s]
• Mad Scientist's Digest [mid 70s-mid 80s]
• Motor City Madness [1970s]
• The Perryscope [1992]
• Rainy Day Three-Shot [1978] (with Denice Hudspeth)
• Sticky Quarters [early 80s - mid-90s] (for FAPA)
• Sticky Wicket [1980s]
• Styxzine [mid-70s] (for MiSHAP)
• The Whole Fanzine Catalog [late 70s - late 80s]

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1980 -- Marcon XV
• 1983 -- ASFiCon 4

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