Maggie Thompson

Who was Maggie Thompson?

Margaret "Maggie" Thompson, is a former librarian, longtime editor of the now-defunct Comics Buyer's Guide, science fiction fan and collector of comics. Thompson and her late husband, Don Thompson, were among the instigators of what developed in the 1960s into comic book fandom.

Their Harbinger announced the upcoming publication of Comic Art, one of the early amateur magazines devoted to all aspects of sequential art. The initial issue of Comic Art was released the following spring. Seven issues were published at irregular intervals between 1961 and 1968. As publication of Comic Art wound down, they shifted their attention to a new venture as the Thompsons started a fanzine titled Newfangles in March 1967. Unlike other comics news fanzines of the time it was devoted to the doings of comics fandom instead of news about comic books and comic book professionals.