Les Daniels, R. I. P.

NYTimes.com: Les Daniels, one of the earliest historians of comic books — from the launching (off the doomed planet Krypton) of Superman in 1938 through the countercultural comix movement of the ’60s — and an author of horror novels, died on Nov. 5 at his home in Providence, R.I. He was 68.

I met Daniels at the first World Fantasy Con I attended. I saw him in a restaurant and told him how much I'd enjoyed one of his novels, and we had breakfast together. Nice guy, and I'm sorry he's gone.