One of the great things about DC’s many anthology titles of the 1970s and 1980s was that a writer never knew who might end up drawing their story. In this case, it was the legendary George Evans of EC Comics, Blazing Combat, and (shortly after doing this story) Secret Agent Corrigan fame, who was handed my dinky little script by editor Paul Levitz to actually render.… Read the rest
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Here’s a little ditty from DC Super-Stars #14 (May-June 1977), a special “Secret Origins of Super-Villains” issue, to which I contributed “Let There Be…Dr. Light!” illustrated by the great Dick Ayers and Jack Abel.
From DC’s Weird War Tales #68 (October 1978), the six-page “The Greatest Story Never Told!” It’s a pretty formulaic Comics Code Approved mystery tale, starring a Spanish Civil War-era Ernest Hemingway (can you tell I was an English Lit major?), and notable for being what I believe was the young Frank Miller’s second job for DC.… Read the rest
In 1994, I had the privilege of meeting and spending some time with Golden Age comic book creator Creig Flessel (1912-2008) when we were both guests at a comic book convention in Kansas City. My buddy/brother Rick Stasi, one of the convention organizers, asked me to present Creig with a Lifetime Achievement Award at that show, one of those things that conventions hand out to guests of honor on a fairly regular basis.… Read the rest
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Christopher J. Priest (the artist formerly known as Jim Owsley) is one of my favorite people and favorite writers, a friend since the late-1970s when I was a writing for Marvel’s Crazy Magazine and he was the assistant editor thereof. We worked together on staff at DC Comics for a couple of years, and we wrote for one another’s editorial offices.… Read the rest
In the mid-1980s, Tru Studios out of Chicago, Illinois was publishing TrolLords, a player in the independent black and white comics boom. The editor at Tru was my friend Brian Augustyn, who I have known since the days I lived in the Windy City, around 1980, and would later work with on staff and as a freelancer at DC Comics (and who I just had a chance to visit with at length at this year’s TerrifiCon in Connecticut).… Read the rest
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…Or, mail sent to Paul Levitz and myself at the fanzines Etcetera and The Comic Reader a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (aka Brooklyn).
Over on the Two True Freaks podcast, I babble on endlessly about me and the olden days of comic books, ostensibly to discuss a fill-in issue of Star Trek I wrote in 1984.
I hate the sound of my own voice…… Read the rest
The best part about being a freelance writer is that you sometimes never know what you’re going to be working on next. (Conversely, the worst part about being a freelance writer is that you sometimes never know what you’re going to be working on next.)… Read the rest
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