Rich Handley Author and Editor

About Rich

Rich Handley

Rich Handley has authored, edited, or contributed to numerous books and magazines for IDW, BOOM! Studios, DC Comics, Topps, Dark Horse, Lucasfilm, Paramount/CBS, Titan Books, and more. His anthology Musings on Monsters: Observations on the World of Classic Horror was nominated for a 2021 Rondo Award for Book of the Year; he was an editor of IDW’s Eisner Award-winning Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips collection; and he contributed to IDW’s Eisner-nominated Star Trek #400.

Rich’s words have appeared in 160 books to date. He edited Eaglemoss’s Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection; co-created Magnetic Press’s Planet of the Apes Role-Playing Game; and has penned licensed Star TrekStar Wars, and Planet of the Apes fiction. Rich has written about other pop-culture franchises as well, including Dark ShadowsSwamp ThingHellblazerWatchmenBattlestar GalacticaStargateRed Dwarf, Batman, Godzilla, and more. He has 25 years’ experience as a magazine editor, and he currently works in academia.

View Rich’s publications, blog and résumé.

ONLINE RESOURCES:
Star Trek Comics Weekly (ongoing column)
The Complete Star Trek Comics Index
The Complete Planet of the Apes Comics Index
Battlestar Galactica on Screen and in Print: A Complete Index
Babylon 5 and Crusade Viewing & Reading Order
Dark Shadows: The Complete Franchise: Screen, Print and Audio
Breaking Down Marvel’s U.S. and U.K. Star Wars Comics
Cover Gallery: Every BSG Comic Book and Novel to Date
Swamp Thing and Hellblazer : A Complete Pre-New 52 Index

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