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Alan J. Porter

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Alan J. Porter has been a regular writer on various aspects of popular culture and technology for over fifteen years.

He is best known as a writer of pop-culture reference books, as well as a critically acclaimed Beatles biography, business books focused on content strategy, and various comics.

He is also an Editor-At-Large at RevolutionSF.com where he mainly writes movie reviews.

He is president and founder of 4Js Group - a Content Strategy consulting company focused on helping companies and organizations recognize and leverage their largest hidden asset, their content.

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Alan J. Porter's Blog

A Fab New Engagement (Beatles style)

Excited to be able to announce that I’ve been engaged as the Consultant Historian for a new Beatles tribute band project.

This won’t be your typical Beatles tribute band of mop-top pretenders. Focused on the music of the Hamburg and Cavern days of 1961-1963, these are your proto-punk, leather-clad, rock-n-rollers, The Savage Young Beatles.

The Savage Young Beatles will make their US debut at the upc

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Average rating: 3.96 · 490 ratings · 93 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Before They Were Beatles 4.27 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	James Bond: The History Of The Illustrated 007 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cars: Rally Race by Alan J. Porter (Goodreads Author), Magic Eye Studios (Illustrator) 3.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cars: The Rookie by Alan J. Porter (Goodreads Author), Albert Carreres (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cars: Radiator Springs (Disney Pixar by Alan J. Porter (Goodreads Author), Albert Carreres (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Trek: A Comics History 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cars: Route 66 Dash by Alan J. Porter (Goodreads Author), Allen Gladfelter (Illustrator) 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wiki: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Content Pool: Leveraging Your Company's Largest Hidden Asset by Alan J. Porter (Goodreads Author), Douglas Potter (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Batman(r): The Unauthorized Collector's Guide it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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On the surface the story of a displaced brother and sister with strange powers, a exploited fish-man from the ocean, and the couple that recuses them striving to survive through the The Great Storm hurricane that devastated Galveston in 1900. But at i ...more
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