Robert Morales (1958-2013)

Writer Robert Morales, 55, died April 18, 2013 at home in Brooklyn NY.

Morales is best known for writing the Truth: Red, White & Black comic miniseries for Marvel (2003), about government experimentation on black men to create “super soldiers” like Captain America, with chilling echoes of the Tuskegee Experiments.

Born February 3, 1958 in New York City, he attended the Clarion workshop in 1976, and had many close friends in the SF community.

See the May issue of Locus for a complete obituary.