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He entered publishing in 1941 as a salesman and editorial representative, spending two years in New York with
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his collection of 3,000 volumes of fiction and 92 science fiction magazines dating from the 1920s.
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editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the
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he became their Northern California sales manager and general editorial representative.
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During the 1950s, McComas reviewed science fiction for
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J. Francis McComas circa 1954
Kansas City, Missouri
Fremont, California
science fiction
pseudonym
Random House
Henry Holt and Company
Simon & Schuster
Raymond J. Healy
science fiction
Adventures in Time and Space
Anthony Boucher
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The New York Times
San Francisco Public Library
Biography
"Jesse Francis McComas: The Traveler Returns
F&SF
Works by J. Francis McComas
Project Gutenberg
Works by or about J. Francis McComas
Internet Archive
J. Francis McComas

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