Barry Johns

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Barry Johns was the president of Zenith Publishing.

Barry was one of the very first people to organize comic book conventions in the 1960s. He was one of the first fans to break into the comic book business. Barry had one of the largest and most expensive comic book art collections. Most of the artwork in his collection came from the Golden Age of comics, which is from the late 30s to the mid 40s. But he secretly sold most of his collection before hiring someone to burn fake copies of his collection in order to get an insurance payment. He was later arrested for orchestrating the insurance fraud as well as faking his own kidnapping and the real kidnapping of some of this employees.

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CF42 - The Last Laugh

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Barry Johns was one of the very first people to organize comic book conventions in the 1960s. He was one of the first fans to break into the comic book business.
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Barry has one of the largest and most expensive comic book art collections. Most of the artwork in his collection comes from the Golden Age of comics, which is from the late 30s to the mid 40s.
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Barry is the president of Zenith Publishing.
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Barry Johns looks like a moon-faced, boyish looking man in his thirties. He has clear brown eyes and wears tortoiseshell glasses.
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Johns use to work at Terrific Comics.
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Barry started his official work in Comics as an office boy at Terrific Comics. He later (about 10 years before the events of Casefile #42) became a penciler. He soon became one of Terrific Comics star creators, penciling two of Terrific Comics most popular titles. Barry eventually went out on his own and created Zenith Comics with a comic book called, Metaman. Harry Saul of Terrific Comics sued Barry saying that Barry stole Metaman from his company. A man by the name of Dewey Strong, who also left Terrific Comics and joined Zenith, testified against Harry. Harry Saul lost his lawsuit.
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Barry's wife is named Phoebe.
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Barry had recently lost a large amount of money on trying to make a Metaman movie.
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Barry Johns lost a bunch of money on an action figure deal that fell through recently.
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He was last seen being led away by the San Diego police for coordinating his own kidnapping and insurance fraud.
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