JOHN WOOLEY is a writer, novelist, and pop-culture historian whose work includes the graphic novels The Twlight Avenger and The Miracle Squad (Pulp 2.0 Press) and, with James Vance, the introductions for Bob Powell's Complete Jet Powers and Complete Cave Girl (Kitchen Sink Press/Dark Horse Books). In 2016, two of his story synopses were expanded into full-length Alley Oop comic-strip adventures by Jack and Carole Bender. 

     His newest work of fiction is Beauty and the Bund, a collaboration with his longtime friend Robert A. Brown, for Babylon Books. It continues the saga they began in the Cleansing series, a trio of 1930s-set horror novels that critics have compared favorably to golden-age pulp-magazine tales.  

      Wooley's other comic-book credits include his adaptation of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan Nine from Outer Space, followed by a new three-issue miniseries, Plan Nine: Thirty Years Later, as well as his Dan Turner: Hollywood Detective, all from Malibu Graphics.  He wrote several stories for the famed horror comic Death Rattle, for Kitchen Sink Press, which also hired him to do a couple of tales in Grateful Dead Comix. Wooley also scripted Upshot Graphics’ Uncanny Man-Frog comics, with his Miracle Squad and Twilight Avenger artist, Terry Tidwell. He is also known for working with fellow comic-book author and film historian Michael H. Price on The Big Book of Biker Flicks and the long-running Forgotten Horrors series of B-movie-history books, for which he and Price also do a regular podcast. 

     Winner of the 2006 Lamont Award “for outstanding effort in keeping alive the memory and the spirit of the Pulp Magazine Era,” Wooley has written dozens of pulp-magazine-oriented pieces, including a series of introductions to detective-story collections from Popular Publications. 

     He is the co-host, co-producer, and co-writer of RSU TV's B-MOVIE THEATRE, and the co-producer and writer of the new documentary TULSA TERRORS, which recently won an Independent Horror Movie Festival Award for Best Documentary Feature and was a finalist for a Heartland Emmy. 

     Wooley broke into professional writing more than 50 years ago with a script for Warren Publishing's EERIE, for which he was paid $25. He eventually worked his way up to $50 before Uncle Sam called him to active duty, which included a year-long stint on a helicopter carrier in the waters of Viet Nam. He is an inductee into the Oklahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame (for scriptwriting), the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (for his music writing), and the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.