Alan J. Porter is a writer on popular culture and publishing technology with articles published in numerous magazine titles in the UK, US, Canada, Europe and Australia. He is the author of Before They Were Beatles: The Early Years 1956?1960, a study of the events that led to the formation of The Beatles. He is also the author and main contributor for Blog, Blog Me Do selected by The Times newspaper as the top Beatles blog on the net. Porter is an authority on The Batman and is the author of The Unauthorized Batman Collectors Guide." He also founded Gotham Gazette - the Batman magazine on the web and the long running Gotham Weekly News e-mail newsletter, which were published between 1997 and 2006. A long time comics collector and historian, he was the past Comics Editor for the RevolutionSF website, where he remains an Editor-at-Large, and writes for several comics industry trade magazines. For several years he was a contributor to The Official Comic Book Price Guide For Great Britain, and was also a member of Comicopia - The International Comics APA. He has also written books on the histories of James Bond, and Star Trek in comics. 

October 1st, 1959 in Sale (Age 65)