Editing T. Casey Brennan

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{{short description|American comic book writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2019}}

[[Image:T. Casey Brennan (cropped).jpg|thumb|Brennan in 2009]]
[[File:T. Casey Brennan.JPG|thumb|Brennan (on right), Ann Arbor, Michigan]] [[Image:TCASEY and SARAH HEIDT.JPG|thumb|Brennan (on left), Ann Arbor, Michigan]]

'''Terrance Casey Brennan'''<ref name=homlessdave>{{cite web|url=http://homelessdave.com/tt20060407tcaseybrennan.htm |title=TT with HD: T. Casey Brennan [interview]|publisher=HomelessDave.com|date=April 7, 2006|archivedate=January 25, 2013|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130125104704/http://homelessdave.com/tt20060407tcaseybrennan.htm|url-status=dead|quote=[M]y first name is Terrance. My parents named me that, but decided not to use it. They decided to call me by my middle name, Casey. So all through my school days I was always Casey Brennan. When I began publishing, I decided to appropriate my first initial.}}</ref> is an American [[comic book]] writer.

During the 1970s, he wrote for [[Warren Publishing]]'s black-and-white [[horror fiction|horror]]-comics [[anthologies]] ''[[Creepy (magazine)|Creepy]]'' and ''[[Eerie (magazine)|Eerie]]'', and ''[[Vampirella]]''. He also wrote for [[DC Comics]]' ''[[House of Mystery]]'' and [[Archie Comics]]' ''[[Red Circle Comics|Red Circle Sorcery]]''.

In the 1980s, Brennan campaigned to have depictions of [[Tobacco smoking|smoking]] in comics banned, which led then-Gov. [[Bill Clinton]] of [[Arkansas]] to issue a proclamation designating January 1990 as "T. Casey Brennan Month."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entrecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/clinton.jpg|title= Proclamation|date= December 22, 1989|publisher=State of Arkansas|location=United States |archivedate=January 22, 2013|archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130122121205/http://www.entrecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/clinton.jpg |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Actor Comics Presents===
([[Hero Initiative]])
*1: "Hypothetical Cerebus" (art by [[Dave Sim]])

===Creepy===
*31: "Death of a Stranger" (art by [[Ernie Colón]])
*36: "On the Wings of a Bird" (art by [[Jerry Grandenetti]])
*37: "The Cut-Throat Cat Blues" (art by [[Ernie Colón]])
*38: "Escape From Nowhere World" (art by [[Jerry Grandenetti]]); "Loathsome Lore!" (art by [[Ken Kelly (artist)|Ken Kelly]])
*43: "The Golden Sun Disc of the Incas" (art by [[Richard Corben]])
*44: "The Last Days of Hans Bruder" (art by [[Frank Bolle]])
*45: "Dungeons of the Soul" (art by Felix Mas)
*47: "Mark of the Phoenix" (art by [[Reed Crandall]])
*50: "Climbers of the Tower" (art by Felix Mas)
*61: "A Stranger in Eternity" (art by Adolfo Abellan)
*63: "A Ghost of a Chance" (art by [[Vicente Alcazar]]) <!--spelled Vicente, not Vincente, per http://lambiek.net/artists/a/alcazar_vicente.htm and other sources-->

===Eerie===
*22: "Family Curse" (art by [[Tony Williamsune]])
*29: "Strange Gateway" (art by [[Jack Sparling]])
*36: "Eerie's Monster Gallery" (art by [[Pablo Marcos]])
*38: "The Carrier of the Serpent" (art by [[Jerry Grandenetti]]); "A Stranger in Hell" (art by [[Esteban Maroto]])

===Vampirella===
*5: "Escape Route!" (art by Mike Royer)
*17: "Beware Dreamers!" (art by Jose Gonzalez)
*18: "Dracula Still Lives!" (art by Jose Gonzalez)
*19: "The Shadow of Dracula!" (art by Jose Gonzalez)
*20: "When Wakes the Dead!" (art by Jose Gonzalez)
*21: "Prologue" (art by Jose Gonzalez)

===Vampus===
*45  "El Disco del Sol"  (art by [[Richard Corben]]) [http://www.entrecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/brennan_corben.jpg Page 1]

===Fantasy Quarterly===
*1: "Doorway to the Gods" (art by [[Dave Sim]]) [http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/Doorway-To-The-Gods-1.jpg Page 1][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/Doorway-To-The-Gods-2.jpg Page 2][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/Doorway-To-The-Gods-3.jpg Page 3][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/Doorway-To-The-Gods-4.jpg Page 4][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/Doorway-To-The-Gods-5.jpg Page 5][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/Doorway-To-The-Gods-6.jpg Page 6]

===House of Mystery===
*260: "Dead Wrong" (art by [[Jerry Grandenetti]])
*267: "A Strange Way to Die" (art by Abe Ocampo)
*268: "The Man Who Spoke With Spirits" (art by [[Jess Jodloman]])
*274: "The Soul of Faustus" (art by Jerry Bingham and Tex Blaisdell)

===Nightmare===
([[Skywald Publications]])
*11: "Where Gods Once Stood" (art by Carlos Garzon)

===Orb===
*5 "One Man's Madness" (art by [[Gene Day]])

===Power Comics===
*1: "A Gift of Wonder" (art by Vince Marchesano); "A Boy and his Aardvark" (art by [[Dave Sim]]) [http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/A-Boy-and-His-Aardvark-1.jpg Page 1][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/A-Boy-and-His-Aardvark-2.jpg Page 2][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/A-Boy-and-His-Aardvark-3.jpg Page 3][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/A-Boy-and-His-Aardvark-4.jpg Page 4][http://www.jazzbastards.org/artofdavesim/A-Boy-and-His-Aardvark-5.jpg Page 5]

===Red Circle Sorcery===
*6: "Black Fog" (art by [[Gray Morrow]]) [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tHVfHpnv17g/TUQ1MTce9KI/AAAAAAAAONM/460Ow9i5Nfg/s1600/sorcery6_Page_20.jpg Page 1] [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tHVfHpnv17g/TUQ1IVa1jBI/AAAAAAAAONE/EK31tss48cU/s1600/sorcery6_Page_21.jpg Page 2]
*7: "The Benefactor" (art by [[Vicente Alcazar]]) <!--spelled Vicente, not Vincente, per http://lambiek.net/artists/a/alcazar_vicente.htm and other sources-->
*10: "The Demon Rider" (art by [[Jack Abel]] and [[Wally Wood]])

===Tara On The Dark Continent===
*2: "The Black Mistress: Mystery of the Drowned Dowager" (art by  Bill Black) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013112/http://www.popimage.com/content/images/blackmistress1.jpg Page 1][http://www.popimage.com/content/images/blackmistress2.jpg Page 2][http://www.popimage.com/content/images/blackmistress3.jpg Page 3]

===The Equinox, Volume V, Number 3===
* "What Rabbits Are Like"

==The Daniel Fry connection==
One of T. Casey Brennan's early publishers was alleged UFO contactee [[Daniel Fry]], who published his essays in ''Understanding'' magazine; examples from [http://danielfry.com/daniels-writings/understanding-newsletter-1974/vol-19-no-8/ October 1974] and [http://danielfry.com/daniels-writings/understanding-newsletter-1988/september/ September 1988] issues are posted on the Internet.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.kenrahn.com/JFK/Conspiracy_theories/Brennan--Conjurella/Brennan.html Repository of T. Casey Brennan's John F. Kennedy-related prose pieces]
* {{LocalWiki|ann-arbor|T._Casey_Brennan}}

==Audio/video==
*{{cite AV media|url=http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/the-deuce/my-days-as-an-unemployed-person-first-installment/|title=My days as an unemployed person. First installment [T. Casey Brennan interview]|publisher= AnnArbor.com|date= July 24, 2009|first=Jordan |last=Miller|accessdate=August 27, 2019}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071009085947/http://www.annarboralive.com/A3Radio/downloads/TCasey.64.mp3 Audio interview with T. Casey Brennan]
*{{YouTube|kTHB4WJdE84|T. Casey Brennan in February 2008 with band Nessie}}
*[http://www.zivkitaro.name/2005/12/04/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A2-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95-37/ Kitaro's Sideshow], podcast in Hebrew from Israel, featured songs by T. Casey Brennan in episodes #36 and #37.

==Further reading==
* [[Who's Who in America]], 1994, 1995, 1997
* ''World Health magazine'' (UN/WHO Geneva) October 1983 (p.&nbsp;30) January - February 1986 (p.&nbsp;9)
* ''The Democratic Journalist'' (International Organization of Journalists - Prague) July–August 1987 (pp.&nbsp;36–37)
* ''ICA News'' (International Cooperative Alliance - Geneva) #1. March 1988 
* ''East-West Journal'' November 1984 (p.&nbsp;13)
* ''[[ISKCON]] World Review'' (Hare Krishnas) March 1988 (p.&nbsp;13)
* [[Congressional Record]] (Senate) Vol. 128, No. 131, September 28, 1982 (p. S12435)
* ''Following Cerebus'', vol. 1, #6, Nov. 2005

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