Creation
The Alley Award traces its origin to "a letter to Jerry dated October 25, 1961" by Roy Thomas, in which he suggested that Bails' fanzine Alter-Ego, which debuted in March 1961, create an award for fandom's "favorite comic books in a number of categories".
Initially suggested as the Alter-Ego Award, the name evolved into the Alley Award after comic strip caveman Alley Oop, since, as Thomas reasoned, "surely a caveman had to be the earliest superhero chronologically" Comics historian Bill Schelly notes that no one "bothered to ask the NEA syndicate for permission to utilize V. T. Hamlin's comic strip character".
The Alley statuette was initially sculpted by Ron Foss out of redwood, from which "plaster duplications" were made to be handed out to the various winners.
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