Join me as I demonstrate the limits of my memory by telling tales of why my first Worldcon was supposed to have been my second Worldcon, the question I never got around to asking my cousin, the actor Herb Edelman, which song I sang while dancing across a Manhattan rooftop with Larry Lieber, what Fantastic Four moment motivated the first letter I ever wrote to a comic book company, the string of serendipities which led to one of my DC horror stories being adapted as an episode of Tales from the Darkside, how the Washington Post got me a job editing Science Fiction Age magazine, and more.

And to illustrate a few of the topics touched on during this episode —

My membership card in the Merry Marvel Marching Society

My appearance in Tales of Suspense #69 (September 1965)

Carl Gafford, Paul Levitz, Steve Gilary, and me during the 1974 D.C. Worldcon

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