New York City: After college, living in New York City's East Village, he wrote humorous pornographic stories for the periodicals Luv and Bang, and worked for three months as a file clerk at an insurance company. He began doing work for Screw X, a spin-off of Screw. The art directors, Larry Brill and Les Waldstein, left to found The Monster Times, which Kane called "sort of a Famous Monsters of Filmland filtered through an NYC underground attitude in an East Village Other vein." Kane joined the original editorial staff in 1972, and later than year became its editor in chief through its cancelation in 1976. He then became an editor at Screw. In 1984, at the suggestion of a New York Daily News editor, Susan Toepfer, Kane began reviewing genre movies for that newspaper, using the pen name, later his registered trademark, The Phantom of the Movies, with many reviews followed with a memorably laughable movie quote, under the subhead "Wish I'd Said That." He also wrote a companion column reviewing home video, "Mondo Video." In 1993, he began publishing the genre-film magazine The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope. During a time of uncertainty over the future of the Daily News, Kane launched a spin-off newsletter. A mention of it in his column brought in some subscribers and "seed money to launch the newsletter, with the invaluable assistance of my wife (writer Nancy Naglin) and my writer friend Tim Ferrante, in early 1993. After 14 issues, we expanded to a magazine format." His work also appeared in magazines and newspapers including The National Lampoon, Maxim, The Washington Times, The Village Voice, and High Times, which serialized his series "Dope in the Cinema." Kane also published a satiric science-fiction short story called “Death After Death” in Penthouse. Kane died November 1, 2020. He was survived by wife Naglin and his sister, Joan Nichols. In 2021, he was posthumously inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame. Works Books . ; . References External links The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope official homepage Film magazines published in the United States Quarterly magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1993 Magazines published in New Jersey