You may have turned 58 today, and have gone all Hollywood, writing scripts for such TV shows as Earth: Final Conflict, Mutant X, and Viper, but once upon a time you were a comic-book newcomer.

Back in 1972, when you were 21 and I was 17, we huddled in a corner near the elevators on the 18th floor of the Statler Hilton Hotel at one of Phil Seuling’s July 4th weekend comic-book conventions, and you drew this picture of your Iron-Wolf character in my sketchbook.

Well … at least I think it was 1972. It might have been as early as Phil’s 1971 con or as late as the 1973 one. But whichever it was, let this drawing be a reminder that tempus fugit … and also that my memory isn’t what it once was.

Here’s wishing you a birthday wish that the decades have left fewer holes in your memory.