Title: William Schelly Collection - Fully Processed
Administrative/Biographical History
William Schelly has enjoyed a long career as a writer, editor, and biographer. He was born on November 2, 1951, in Walla Walla, Washington, and graduated from the University of Idaho in 1973.
A comic-book enthusiast from an early age, Schelly produced his first comic fanzine, Super-Heroes Anonymous in 1965. This was the first of a number of fanzines he created through the early 1970s. It was for his fanzine Sense of Wonder that Schelly became known to the comics community. It began as a collection of amateur comics and stories, but in 1970, Schelly changed the format to a more general fanzine made up of articles and artwork about the history of comic books.
Schelly has written a number of books on the history of comic book fandom, as well as biographies of silent film comedian Harry Langdon, comic book artist Joe Kubert, Mad Magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman, and SF and comic book writer Otto Binder.
