Phil Latter

Phil Latter is a Canadian Comic Book Historian, and is the First Comics News Canadian Bureau Chief. He has collected, read & enjoyed comic books, collecting prolifically, his entire life. He collects comic books, vintage Pulp magazines, original comic book art, vinyl record albums, (including Power Records, and Zorro items. He's collected vintage comic books & new comics, for over 40 years. He says, "Comics keep me young at heart!" Phil's personal comics collection features over 85,000 comic books, (not a typo), mostly U.S. and Canadian comics. But, further, comic books & related memorandum from all over the world, dating from the early 1920's, right up to the present. Phil Latter is recognized as being one of the foremost world authorities on Johnston McCulley's Zorro. He is an artist & published writer, and he collects anything and everything to do with the Zorro character. His well-known Pulp magazine website for this character is at Yahoo Groups: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/johnstonmcculleyzorro/info To join us on this popular group, membership at this busy website, is free! Phil has been published in Roy Thomas' 'Alter Ego' magazine, and (in prose fiction, reviews, articles, & his artwork), in numerous issues of the Canadian English language (from Quebec) Batman fanzine, 'The Midnight Conference.' Additionally, he has conducted numerous interviews of comics pros, columns and articles, on the websites, Silver Bullet Comic Books.com, Comic Bulletin.com, and at First Comics News.com. And also in these additional fanzines: 'The Maine Comics Club Newsletter', & in numerous issues of both 'The Dragon Lady Dispatch' (from Toronto's 'Dragon Lady Comics Shop'), and in many issues of the fanzine, Gene Kehoe's "It's A Fanzine." Born in the village of Herring Cove, right on the Atlantic Ocean, Phil currently lives in The Halifax Regional Municipality, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, with his four felines: Jasper, Ivy, Oscar, and...Zorro-!