Very sad news. He sent an autographed copy of his autobiography last week and I was about to write him a letter back thanking him for it.

Bert I. Gordon, the professed king of the monster movies whose B pictures featured giant rats, giant spiders, giant grasshoppers, giant chickens, a colossal man and 30-foot teenagers laying waste to everything in sight, has died at 100. https://nyti.ms/3ZzqtXJ