J. Francis McComas

Overview:

• Legal Name: McComas, Jesse Francis
• Place of Birth: USA
• Date of Birth: 1911
• Date of Death: 1978
• Pseudonym:
  • Webb Marlowe

Notes:

McComas worked at Simon & Schuster and was a member of the Mystery Guild of America. Co-edited the seminal anthology Adventures in Time and Space with Raymond J. Healy, in which appeared his first SF story ("Flight into Darkness" as Webb Marlowe). He was co-founding editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction with Anthony Boucher from 1949-1954, and remained an advisory editor until 1962.

Resources:

• Wikipedia article on J. Francis McComas