This past Comic-Con International, we presented one of the Bill Finger Awards to Steve Skeates, a clever guy who wrote a lot of fine comics in the late sixties through about the early eighties. It was one of our more popular choices for the honor.
Steve was written about in two hometown newspapers. Here's a link to one of them and here's a link to the other. In the spirit of the previous message, I only spotted one real error in either article…and wouldn't you know it? It's from me. I'm quoted — and I assume I said this although I knew better — saying that Steve had never been to Comic-Con before. He had, once. That just goes to show you shouldn't believe everything I say, either. I certainly don't.
Thanks to Marty Golia for letting me know about these. By the way, the guy who stuck Skeates' name in an episode of the Plastic Man TV cartoon was Steve Gerber.