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- Aspire to Conspire: Author Jonathan Vankin has a theory, David Templeton, Metro Silicon Valley, August 14, 1997 (originally from the August 14–20, 1997 issue of the Sonoma County Independent )
- Jonathan Vankin at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
