Who The Hell Is Carl Brandon?

Carl Brandon's story is an interesting one, and needs a little explaining. Back in the 1950s, several white fanzine fans were looking around at science fiction conventions and realizing there were no Fans of Color that they knew of. Fanwriters (at that time) Peter Graham and the late Terry Carr suggested that perhaps one should be invented. A committee was formed and sworn to secrecy, and they began by writing letters of comment (LoCs) to fanzines from Mr. Brandon, in which he eventually let it slip that he was black. Carl Brandon proved so popular that fans scoured the halls at conventions where Brandon was rumored to be in attendance, wanting desperately to meet him.

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