Andy Mangels is the USA Today best-selling author and co-author of over twenty-five fiction and nonfiction books — including Star Trek, Roswell, Iron Man, X-Files, and Star Wars tomes — and is an award-winning comic book anthology editor. As a pop culture historian, he has also contributed to international magazines and newspapers, and has scripted, directed, and produced over forty DVD documentaries and Special Features projects. In 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Inkpot Award for Achievement in the Comic Arts at Comic-Con International.