The prolific Ron Goulart has died just shy of his 90th birthday:
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Ron Goulart was an award-winning mystery and scifi writer, publishing a number of comic book stories for Marvel Comics. His works appeared in the pages of titles such as Vampire Tales, Journey into Mystery and more. Mystery*File creator Steve noted Goulart's passing, writing, "As I understand it, he'd been in an assisted living facility for the last month or so. Although he'd been in poor health and we hadn't gotten together in several years, I'm happy to say that he was a friend of mine." He added, "It was, in fact, his book The Hardboiled Dicks, a collection of stories from the detective pulps, that changed my life around, and for the better. What's more I know I'm not the only one. Many other collectors of those old magazine have told me the very same thing."
Goulart was also known for his works chronicling comic book history in published encyclopaedias such as Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books, published in 1986, and the substantial Comic Book Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Guide to Characters, Graphic Novels, Writers, and Artists in the Comic Book Universe, from 2004.
Over the course of his career as an author, Goulart was published under a wide range of pen names, including publisher Street and Smith's Kenneth Robeson, Con Steffanson, Chad Calhoun, R.T. Edwards, Ian R. Jamieson, Josephine Kains, Jillian Kearny, Howard Lee, Zeke Masters, Frank S. Shawn and Joseph Silva. He also worked as a ghost writer on projects including William Shatner's TekWar novels, first published in 1989.
https://www.cbr.com/ron-goulart-obit/I knew him mainly for his histories of comics. I had not known that he wrote a huge amount of fiction. Most of it was under assorted pen names. He evidently spent much of his career successfully following in the footsteps of the pulp writers he grew up with. I also did not know that he served as William Shatner's ghost for the "Tek" series.
