The family plans a private funeral followed by a cremation. After the cremation, a company called Space Services, Inc will take Doohan's ashes into space.
My opinion - I am sure you are all familiar with Doohan. He was a fine actor in the 1960's who got many television parts in addition to Star Trek. His likeness was carried to the comic book and animated Star Trek TV show. I saw Doohan at a convention once. He was talking about how he would do three or more voices in the animated TV show, and that it was put together as best as could be considering the stars were recorded separately and not acting together to say the lines in the show. So if you watch the animated TV show and see the actors not playing off each other's lines - you will know why.
He was a gifted actor who knows how to embrace a part that came along once in a lifetime. I think it was a shame he was not in more shows as other characters, as Shatner and Nimoy were. But I do not feel too sorry for him, as I am sure he made a fine living off Star Trek. I offer my condolences to his family.
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DC Comic illustrator Jim Aparo dies. He was 72. His wife Julie, four children and six grandchildren survive him.
The family requests in that you donate to your local charity instead of sending flowers. Those who whish to send condolences to Aparo's family may write to them at
THE APARO FAMILY, P.O. BOX 28, NORWALK, CONNECTICUT 06852 - 0028
Aparo worked for Chalton comics in the 1960's. Aparo's career got a big boost when in the late 1960's DC editor Dick Giordano, who himself worked at Charlton, brought Jim with him when he went to DC.
Aparo is often remembered for his Batman comics of the 1970's, but also drew Spectre, Green Arrow, Aquaman and other DC characters.
Aparo, born in 1932, was a self-taught artist. He worked in the fashion industry in Connecticut before getting into comics. In 1963 he illustrated a comic strip called "Stern Wheeler" which was published in Hartford. In 1966 Dick Giordano hired him to work at Charlton comics where he drew westerns, mystery, horror, science fiction, and romance comics. In the late 1960's he moved to DC and worked on Aquaman comics. He co-created "Batman and the Outsiders." Through the 1980's he worked on "Batman" and "Detective Batman" comics. Following a run on Green Arrow in the 1990's Aparo moved to semi-retirement and drew covers and fill-ins.
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