Alan J. Porter

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name = Alan J. Porter


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birth_date = October 1959
birth_place = Sale, Greater Manchester, England
death_date = Living
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occupation = Writer, Publisher
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Alan J. Porter (born in Sale, Greater Manchester, England in October 1959, now resident in central Texas) is a writer on popular culture with articles published in 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 is the Comics Editor for the RevolutionSF website 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 is also a member of "Comicopia - The International Comics APA".

He is the writer for the "Virtual Man" and "Q-Man" series of promotional comic books.

Alongside music and comics he has a life-long passion for motorsport and is an occasional competitor in SCCA autocross events. As a writer he contributed to "Mansell: The People's Champion' and produces "The Speed Blog'. He is working on a mystery novel set in the world of motorsports.

Porter has more than 20 years experience in corporate publishing in the UK and USA. He has been involved in the development and adoption of various publishing standards and has been a regular speaker at industry conferences. He has held senior management positions at various publishing software and services companies, allied with extensive consulting experience with numerous Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations. He is the founder of "4Js Group" a corporate publishing consulting and services company. He is the author of "The Content Pool" blog.

Work to be published in 2008 includes "God Shop" (Tokyopop manga) and "James Bond: A History of the Illustrated 007" (Hermes Press).

Magazines

*Austin Monthly
*Back Issue
*Beatlology Magazine
*Comic Buyers Guide
*Comic & Games Retailer
*Comicopia
*Comics International
*Comics World
*The Communicator
*Computer World
*Computing
*Disaster Recovery Journal
*Disclosures
*Flightpath
*HP Solutions
*The Manual
*Net*Works
*Popular Culture
*Socialist Alternative
*The Smell Of Napalm
*Venue

Books

*Before They Were Beatles: The Early Years 1956-1960, (2003)Xlibris, ISBN 1-4134-3056-2
*The Unauthorized Batman Collectors Guide, (1998) Schiffer Books, ISBN 0-7643-0683-9

Contributor To

*An Unofficial Companion to the Novels of Terry Pratchett, (2008), Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-1-846450-43-3
*James Bond: Shark Bait, (2007), Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-591-5
*James Bond: Death Wing, (2007), Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-517-6
*Mansell: The Peoples' Champion, (1995) HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-218497-4
*The Official Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain, (1993), PGP, ISBN 0-9516207-2-X
*The Official Comic Book Price Guide for Great Britain (1992), PGP, ISBN 0-9516207-1-1

External links

* [http://alanjporter.com/ Alan J. Porter's Personal Homepage]