Lynn Hickman

(June 5th, 1926 – October 30, 1996)

Lynn Hickman, a Midwestern fan from Wauseon, Ohio, and member of First Fandom, and huckster, founded Little Monsters of America.

He was a member of the Midwest Nomads, the Alien Science-Fantasy Club, and was one of the founders of Pulpcon and the founder of the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society (PEAPS). He chaired Illwiscon. He used the pen name of Plato Jones.

He was publisher of Who Killed Science Fiction? and Why Is a Fan?.

A lean, lanky man, he was a chain smoker, he suffered from emphysema and ultimately succumbed to lung cancer.

He and his wife, Carolyn Hickman, were fixtures at Midwestcon.

• “The Further Adventures of Midwest Fandom” by Howard DeVore, Lynn Hickman and Roger Sims
• “Lynn As I Remember Him” by Roger Sims
• See http://fanac.org/fanzines/Vega/Vega7-04.html for an autobiographical sketch from 1953

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Argassy (for SAPS)
• Badmouth [early 70s]
• Bullfrog Bugle [late 50s and early 60s] (for OMPA)
• Conversation [early 60s] (for OMPA)
• Decision Time [1995] (for Myriad)
• First Fandom Bulletin [1960s] (aka First Fandom Magazine)
• Flip-Flap (for FLAP)
• The Goody Gumdrop Boys at Jellybean Mountain
• Gooseberries
• Hello Again (for SAPS)
• Hickman's Scrapbook
• Huckleberry Finnzine
• JD [1950s]
• J. D. Argassy [1950s and 1960s] (for OMPA)
• The Little Corpuscle [1951-52]
• The Little Monsters of America [1951-52]
• Ob [1958] (for OMPA)
• Old and New [1980s and early 90s]
• Pack Rat
• Pulp Era [1964-93]
• Scurvy [1957] (for OMPA)
• S.T.F. Trends [1953-54]
• Troat [1966-69] (for OMPA)
• Wauseon Wonder Stories

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1959 -- Best Fanzine Hugo nomination for J. D. Argassy
• 1960 -- Best Fanzine Hugo nomination for J. D. Argassy
• 1983 -- Rebel Award
• 1992 -- Lamont Award
• Concave

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Person

1926—1996

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