Career
He also serves as editor for the Boardman Books (Memphis, Tennessee) series Comics Monographs. In the 1970s, Gore published a number of comic book and science fiction related fanzines. These included GAW (with Wally Wingert), Information Technology, Inter-com, and Chaz Furnd, Bas Crod.
Information Technology had several incarnations including one which indexed Jack Kirby"s Fourth World.
Chaz Furnd, Bas Crod, devoted to the European Commission Comics of the 1950s ran from 1974 to 1977 and is probably the best known. In the early days of the Internet, Gore founded and moderated a number of discussion groups devoted to historic and popular culture topics.
Many of these, including lists devoted to comic artist Jack Kirby and character Captain Marvel (shazam-l), still exist in various formats, although he is no longer moderator. He has also served several terms on the board of directors of the Grand Comics Database (GCD), a volunteer organization devoted to indexing all world comic books
