Ken Krueger was an American publisher and retailer.
15 Facts About Ken Krueger
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Ken Krueger co-created the annual convention with a group of San Diego friends, including Shel Dorf, Richard Alf and Mike Towry.
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Ken Krueger began editing his first science fiction fanzine, Abortions, in 1952.
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Not content with editing his own fanzine, Krueger was a regular contributor to the Buffalo Fantasy League's official club fanzine, Hyperopia, which was edited by fellow club member, Robert J Fritz.
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In 1952 Ken Krueger was nominated and elected as Progressive Fandom's candidate to the post of president of the National Fantasy Fan Federation.
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The key to turning all their ideas from dreams to reality lay in Ken Krueger's extensive mailing list from his successful mail-order book distribution business.
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Eshbach, having whetted himself in the publishing field, went on to found Fantasy Press, taking Ken Krueger's extensive mailing list as a building block.
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Ken Krueger is one of the unsung heroes of science fiction and fandom.
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Kenneth J Krueger used his own name for his next publishing operation after Shroud had lapsed; even though Krueger kept selling his leftover copies as well as being a general book dealer.
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Under the Kenneth J Krueger imprint, Krueger published such notable classic titles from the early predawn era of science fiction and horror literature as: The Moon Maker, by Arthur Train and Robert Wood ; and what is undoubtedly the very best, now long forgotten, horror story ever written, The Fearsome Island, by Albert Kinross.
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However, all of the paper copies reflect Ken Krueger's mid-1960s move to San Diego.
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Ken Krueger invited his long time friend from science fiction fandom, Earl Kemp, Vice President of Greenleaf Classics, to speak at the Con.
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Ken Krueger published and released the first works of several science fiction and comic authors, including Greg Bear, Scott Shaw, Dave Stevens, and Jim Valentino.
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Retired, but not quite done, Ken Krueger continued to attend the local Buffalo-area pulp and comic conventions with his lifelong pal, and fellow co-founder of Pegasus Publications and the Buffalo Fantasy League, Paul Ganly.
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Ken Krueger died of a heart attack on November 21,2009 in Lockport, New York at age 83, eighteen days after the passing of fellow Comic-Con founder Shel Dorf.