Les Daniels R.I.P.

The Comics Reporter, AFNews and Bob Booth are reporting that author, editor, and NECON regular Les Daniels has passed away. The author of over 15 books and numerous short stories, Daniels was perhaps best known for Comix: A History of the Comic Book in America (which, in the Seventies, was one of the most influential books on comics, along with Jules Feiffer's The Great Comic Book Heroes, and is still very important today), Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media, and the five-volume Don Sebastian de Villanueva vampire series, which included The Black Castle, Yellow Fog, and No Blood Spilled. In addition to writing, editing, and being an absolute encyclopedia of genre facts and lore, Daniels was also a journalist and accomplished musician (even recording a 1974 folk music album with television's Martin Mull called In the Soop).