Roy Thomas was born in
1940 in
Missouri, he began his involvement in comic books with
Alter-Ego, the first
superhero fanzine in 1961. Alter-Ego was the brain child of Dr.
Jerry Bails. Roy was the fanzines assistant editor and its major contributor.
Roy took over publication of Alter-Ego in 1964. In 1965 he was working with Charlton Comics, and for a short time at DC, when after a few weeks, he was offered a job at Marvel Comics as writer and editor of Conan, the Avengers, among many others.
He became Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics in 1972, and resigned in 1974.
Mr. Thomas is still involved with comics and among other things is currently creating a web version of Alter-Ego.
Some of the many comics he was involved with are:
Publishers he has worked for:
Sources:
http://www.comicfest.com/guests/roythomas.html
http://www.twomorrows.com/alterego/
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3362/roy.htm
http://www.twomorrows.com/kirby/articles/18thomas.html