MARK W. BELLOMO - has written over one hundred-fifty articles for such publications as ToyFare Magazine, Wizard Magazine, Lee's Toy Review, Tomart's Action Figure Digest, and most recently for Toy Shop Magazine, where he served a lengthy tenure as their Action Figure Columnist.
He has written several composition and rhetoric texts, has published critical articles on writers of the American Modernist movement, and has also authored a number of books on popular culture: Warman's Action Figures Field Guide, Transformers: Identification & Price Guide, Warman's Field Guide to Transformers, the first and second editions of The Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe: 1982-1994, the upcoming Totally Tubular Toys of the 1980’s (Winter, 2010 release), and Transformers: The Art of the Toys (Summer, 2011 release). Furthermore, he contributes three chapters a year to the world’s best-selling collectible reference guide, Toys & Prices (2007-2010).