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(fandomslang, often derogatory) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
1988 August, Bart Bull, “Comics”, in Spin, volume 4, number 5, →ISSN, page 41:
(It's in the nature of comic book fanboy obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)
1998 September, Brian Doherty, “Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side”, in Spin, volume 14, number 9, →ISSN, page 108:
Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.
To Yusef Komunyakaa, thank you for tolerating my fanboying when, by luck, I sat down beside you one rainy night in a West Village theater and kept yapping about everything and nothing at all.
