TAURASI, JAMES
 Source (some data)
  Additions: Michael Feldman August 2006NULL
 Name and vital stats
  TAURASI, JAMES V. (writer)NULL
 Member
  Committee of four who put on the first World Science Fiction Convention (NYC) '39NULL
 Print Media (non-comics)
  Publisher, Editor & Writer: 1961 The Monster Times, the first movie monster fanzine, following the first Famous Monsters Convention (NYC)> 61
  Publisher, Editor & Writer: Fanzines: 1938-66 Fantasy News; Fantasy Times; Science Fiction Times> 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66
  Publisher: Original Science Fiction StoriesNULL
  Writer: Science fiction: The Magician of SpaceNULL
 Other career notes
  Architect's Assistant:NULL
 Note on comics career
  Helped John Giunta to learn to draw perspective; did backgrounds on early Giunta jobs c1939> 39
 MAGAZINE VILLAGE
  Crime (wr/) 1949 in TRUE CRIME COMICS #7 (art by Wally Wood) [Imprint: MAGAZINE VILLAGE]> 49