American journalist and writer
Frank Lovece (/l ɒ ˈ v ɛ tʃ ə [ 4] comic book writer primarily forMarvel Comics , where he and artistMike Okamoto created the miniseriesAtomic Age New York metropolitan area newspaperNewsday
Born inBuenos Aires ,Argentina , the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Lovece moved to the U.S as a toddler and was raised inKeyser andMorgantown, West Virginia .[ 1] [ 2] West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was the arts/entertainment editor of thecollege newspaper , theDaily Athenaeum [ 1]
Together with the editors of Consumer Guide, Lovece wroteTV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television , published in 1984.[ 5] Hailing 'Taxi': The Official Book of the Show (1988) and similar books on topic including the TV seriesThe Brady Bunch The X-Files [ 6] Newsday [ 7] [ 8] Entertainment Weekly [ 9] [ 10] MPAA rating for anEntertainment Weekly article on how to havehome movies rated.[ 11] [ 9] Godzilla Godzilla franchise ownerToho filed a lawsuit, a district court judge in 1998 issued a preliminary injunction blocking the book from release in the United States due to alleged trademark violation.[ 12] [ 13]
Lovece and artistMike Okamoto created the four-issueminiseries Atomic Age Marvel Comics ' creator-ownedEpic Comics imprint.[ 14] [ 15]
Lovece wrote forNightstalkers Hokum & Hex Clive Barker's Hellraiser Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best .[ 16] [ 17]
Lovece receiving an award for editingStan Lee's God Woke Lovece edited the graphic novelStan Lee's God Woke Stan Lee andFabian Nicieza . It won the 2017Independent Publisher Book Awards ' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award.[ 18]
Lovece has created websites for magazines and television shows[ 8] [better source needed and written articles for, among others,Habitat [ 19] Entertainment Weekly Newsday Yahoo! /MSN .
In 2005, Lovece and photographer Matthew Jordan Smith collaborated on the bookLost and Found , a photojournalistic record of families of abducted children and the work ofThe National Center for Missing & Exploited Children .[ 20]
Lovece has been amovie critic forFilm Journal International [ 21] TV Guide [ 22] New Jersey newspaperThe Record [ 23] [ 24]
Lovece, Frank.TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television (1984) New York: Beekman House / Publications International.ISBN 0-517-46367-9 Lovece, Frank, with Jules Franco.Hailing Taxi: The Official Book of the Show (1988) New York:Prentice Hall Press ISBN 0-13-372103-5 ,ISBN 978-0-13-372103-4 Edelstein, Andrew J., and Frank Lovece.The Brady Bunch BookWarner Books .ISBN 0-446-39137-9 Lovece, Frank (1992).The Television Yearbook . New York:Perigee Books /Putnam Publishing .ISBN 0-399-51702-2 ,ISBN 978-0-399-51702-0 Lovece, Frank.The X-Files DeclassifiedCitadel Press .ISBN 0-8065-1745-X ,ISBN 978-0-8065-1745-2 Lovece, Frank.Godzilla : The Complete Guide to Moviedom's Mightiest MonsterWilliam Morrow / Quill .ISBN 0-688-15603-7 ;ISBN 978-0-688-15603-9 . Subjected toprior restraint in U.S.; released overseas. Smith, Michael Jordan (photographer), and Frank Lovece.Lost and Found (2006) New York:Filipacchi Publishing .ISBN 1-59975-611-0 ,ISBN 978-1-59975-611-0 Atomic Age Clive Barker 'sHellraiser Dark Holiday SpecialClive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (story "For My Son" - reprinted in Checker Publishing bookClive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best Phazer #3, 5Phazer Crossover #2^a b c Abrams, Nancy (September 10, 1989)."Frank Lovece Makes a Living Writing About TV" .The Dominion Post Morgantown, West Virginia .Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. RetrievedJuly 5, 2013 . ^a b Seitz, Matt Zoller (October 4, 1996)."Declassified Information, By the Book" .The Star-Ledger Newark, New Jersey .Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. RetrievedJuly 5, 2013 .^ Meyer, Ken (March 15, 2010)."Ink Stains 14: Nimbus 3" .Ink Stains . RetrievedFebruary 28, 2021 . ^ Thompson, Maggie (November 2, 1990). "Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with 'Atomic Age'Comics Buyer's Guide ...Lovece (pronounced 'lah VETcha')... ^ Lovece, Frank (1984).TV Trivia: Thirty Years of Television ISBN 9780517463673 OCLC 11896508 ^ "Frank Lovece" . WorldCat.^ For example, Lovece, Frank (September 12, 1990). "Red Skelton: Old Jokes Never Die".Newsday . ^a b "FrankLovece.com" . (Official site). Archived fromthe original on August 16, 2011. RetrievedJanuary 28, 2014 .^a b Lovece, Frank (August 9, 1991)."Get your own film rating" .Entertainment Weekly . RetrievedMarch 28, 2021 . ^ Lovece, Frank (November 22, 1996)."Video Reviews: Superhero Films" .Entertainment Weekly . RetrievedMarch 28, 2021 . ^ Pond, Steve (August 9, 1991)."The Irish Sweepstakes" .The Washington Post ^ Jacobs, Alexandra; Flamm, Matthew (April 24, 1998)."The inside scoop on the book world" .Entertainment Weekly . RetrievedMarch 28, 2021 . ^ Godzilla: alles über den König der Monster . Germany: Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag. 1998.ISBN 978-3612265968 ^ Thompson, Maggie (November 2, 1990)."Epic Comics Goes Back to the '50s with Atomic Age" .Comics Buyer's Guide ^ "Atomic Age (Marvel, 1990 series)" .Grand Comics Database .^ "Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1" .Marvel Comics . 1992.^ Gage, Christos N. "Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best - 2002" .FeoAmante.com .^ Wiebe, Sheldon (July 18, 2016)."Comic-Con 2016: POW! Entertainment and Shatner Singularity Introduce Stan Lee's God Woke!" .Eclipse Magazine . Shatner Singularity.Archived from the original on August 6, 2016. RetrievedJuly 22, 2016 . ^ Frank Lovece atHabitat ^ "Lost and Found " .National Center for Missing & Exploited Children . 2006. Archived fromthe original on May 22, 2011.^ Frank Lovece atFilm Journal International Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.^ Frank Lovece atRotten Tomatoes ^ Lovece, Frank (June 1, 1990)." . (Total Recall film review)The Record . ^ Lovece, Frank (December 22, 1990)." . (Awakenings film review) The Record. "Lovece, Frank" . The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators.Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. RetrievedSeptember 13, 2012 .Meyer, Ken Jr. (March 15, 2010)."Nimbus 3 (Sept. 1977)" . Ink Stains (column) 14, ComicAttack.net.Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Lovece, Frank, ed. (September 1977)."Nimbus " (PDF) . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on February 27, 2012.
