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Howard Waldrop died on January 14 in Texas, of a stroke. He was 77 years old. (Two years my senior, barely). The world got a little darker then. I learned of Howard’s passing through a phone call from a mutual friend. I was away from home when it happened, out of the country, with no email and no internet, else I would have posted something here much sooner. Howard and I never lived in the same city, nor the same state, but we had been friends for a long long time. When we first “met” — via comic fandom and the US mail — John F. Kennedy was in the White House and both of us were in high school, Howard in Texas and me in New Jersey. I had just bought a comic book from him. BRAVE & BOLD #28, as it happened. Starro the Conquerer. Howard charged me a quarter. When he sent the comic, he backed it up with a nice drawing of a barbarian on stiff cardboard, and a friendly letter asking me if I liked Conan. We struck up a correspondence that lasted more than half a century. We

Howard Is Gone | Not a Blog Howard Is Gone – Not a Blog Blog Home George's Website Not a Blog Previous Entry Next Entry Howard Is Gone January 19, 2024 Howard Waldrop died on January 14 in Texas, of a stroke. He was 77 years old. (Two years my senior, barely). The world got a little darker then. I learned of Howard’s passing through a phone call from a mutual friend. I was away from home when it happened, out of the country, with no email and no internet, else I would have posted something here much sooner. Howard and I never lived in the same city, nor the same state, but we had b

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