Jim Beard is a writer, editor, and publisher of adventure fiction and pop culture non-fiction. He is the co-founder of Flinch Books and the founder of Becky Books, and has written official Star Wars and Ghostbusters comics, as well as licensed prose fiction of Green Hornet, Kolchak the Night-Stalker, Zorro, Spider-Man, Captain Action, and the X-Files. His original fiction creations include the occult detective Sgt. Janus, the 1970s adventurers D.C. Jones and Adventure Command, and the Lemon Herberts, the greatest pop-rock band that never existed.