Buddy Saunders

Jake "Buddy" Saunders is a fanartist and zine contributor, editor and publisher who was active in comics fandom in the 1960s and 1970s. He also ran a comic mail order service beginning in 1961, and in 1977 founded Lone Star Comics, a comic book chain which at one point had seven stores. He is now the owner of mycomicshop.com, an online comic store specialising in old comics and fanzines.
Saunders was a charter member of the Science Fiction and Comics Association and one of seven individuals who were on the subscription list for the first issue of the club's newsletter, Rocket's Blast. He was an active participant on the newsletter, submitting art, fanfiction and articles. as well as a frequent commenter in the letters section. When the zine was merged with The Comicollector in 1964, his art continued to be featured. Along with Larry Herndon and Howard Keltner (and known as the "Texas Trio"), Buddy co-published Star Studded Comics in 1963 until 1972.
Saunders has also written (and co-written) a number of science fiction stories, with "Back to the Stone Age" nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1976. He has also appeared in the 2023 comics documentary, Dallas Marvels, about the promotional Marvel Comics that were given away in the 1980s by the Dallas times Herald.
More recently he has been known to espouse various right-wing beliefs, sharing false information on his blog about COVID and the 2020 electionwikipedia:Jake Saunders (writer).
== Interviews and Profiles ==
* Rocket's Blast Issue #15 - "Wanted: Dead or Alive" by Bernie Bubnis - shorts on Buddy Saunders, G.B. Love, and Rick Weingroff (1963)
== Notable Fanworks ==
File:RB13.jpeg|front cover Rocket's Blast #13 - Adam Strange (1962)
File:RB14.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #14 front cover - Captain America (1963)
File:RB15.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #15 front cover - Spider-Man (1963)
File:RB16.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #16 front cover - The Shield (1963)
File:RB18.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #18 front cover - Green Lantern (1963)
File:RB19.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #19 front cover - Miss Liberty (1963)
File:RB22.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #22 front cover - Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid (1963)
File:RB23.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #23 front cover - Captain Commando (1963)
File:RB24.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #24 front cover - Atoman (1963)
File:RB26.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #26 front cover - The Spectre (1964)
File:RB28.jpeg|Rocket's Blast #28 front cover - Air Wave (1964)
File:RBSpecial 1.jpeg|Rocket's Blast Special #1, first printing - Captain America, Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Original Human Torch (1963)
File:RB Special -1b.jpeg|Rocket's Blast Special #1, second printing (1964)
File:RB Special -1c.jpeg|Rocket's Blast Special #1, third printing (1967)
File:RB Special -2.jpeg|Rocket's Blast Special #2, front cover - Human Torch (1963)
File:RB Special -3.jpeg|Rocket's Blast Special #3, front cover - Dr. Mid-Nite (1964)
File:RBCC 29.jpg|Rocket's Blast Comicollector #29, front cover - Daredevil (1964)
File:RBCC 30.jpg|Rocket's Blast Comicollector #30 front cover - Blackhawk (1964)
File:RBCC 39.jpg|Rocket's Blast Comicollector #39 front cover - The Hulk (1965)
File:RBCC 47.jpg|Rocket's Blast Comicollector #47 front cover - The Spirit (1966)
File:RBCC51.jpg|Rocket's Blast Comicollector #51 front cover - homage to Walt Disney (1967)
== Zines ==
=== As Editor ===
* Star-Studded Comics - editor, publisher and artist (1963-1972)
=== As Contributor ===
* Rocket's Blast
** Issue #2 - Letter of Comment and Comics Classifieds column (1962)
** Issue #3 - "Shon O'Shay, the God-Fearing Man" - fiction; "THE SCIENCE SHOP: Mystery Ships Over San Francisco" - article and LOC (1962)
** Issue #5 - LOC suggesting a drive to get membership up to 100 fans. (1962)
** Issue #7 - “Master of Gravity, Graviteer" - fiction; LOC (1962)
** Issue #9 - "Graviteer and The Hole in the Ocean" - fiction and art (1962)
** Issue #10 - "Graviteer and The Hole in the Ocean" - fiction and art (1962)
** Issue #11 - "Graviteer and the Sub Pirates" - fiction and art (1962)
** Issue #13 - front cover
** Issue #14 - front cover, "Graviteer Battles Magnus," - fiction and art and LOC (1963)
** Issue #15 - front cover (1963)
** Issue #16 - front cover (1963)
** Issue #18 - front cover (1963)
** Issue #19 - front cover and LOC (1963)
** Issue #20 - interior art by P. Alfieri "mastered" by Saunders (1963)
** Issue #21 - LOC (1963)
** Issue #22 - front cover; interior art (Black Hood) and LOC (1963)
** Issue #23 - front cover; interior art (Reproduction of All Stars #8) (1963)
** Issue #26 - front cover, interior art (Timely Comics' All Winners Squad) and LOC (1964)
** Issue #28 - front cover (1964)
** RB Special #1 - front cover (1963, 1964, 1967)
** RB Special #2 - front cover, interior art (recreations from old Captain America comics) (1963)
** RB Special #3 - front cover (1964)
** RB Special #7 - back cover (1967)
* Rocket's Blast Comicollector
** Issue #29 - front cover and interior art (1964)
** Issue #30 - front cover, pinup art ("The Newsboy Legion and The Guardian"), article ("Captain Marvel - Has He Returned from Limbo?", writing as "Don Fowler") (1964)
** Issue #32 - pinup art (Quicksilver) (1964)
** Issue #33 - interior art (1964)
** Issue #39 - front cover (1965)
** Issue #47 - front cover; full page ad offering back issues with a "Free Marvel Mini-Book" for sale (1966)
** Issue #50 - a full page ad (on page 2) for comics offered for sale (1967)
** Rocket's Blast and The Comicollector Annual - interior art [reprint of Rocket's Blast #27 front cover] (1964)
== References ==
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