While shredding nearly 10,000 pages of my accumulated papers, I made several discoveries worth sharing, including memorable hate mail I received while writing Captain Marvel, multiple reasons I’m unqualified to write my own autobiography, a job application at Comico, why I refused to meet editors until after I’d already sold them stories, my unsuccessful score on a DC Comics proofreading test, four rejected Tales from the Darkside pitches which didn’t end up published in Elvira’s House of Mystery, and more.

You can hear me borne back ceaselessly into the past via the embed below or download the episode at the site of your choice.

Here are a few images related to a couple of the topics I mention this episode —

My first and favorite Captain Marvel hate mail

My Media Whore business card
and the reason why

At the 1974 D.C. Worldcon
with Carl Gafford, Paul Levitz, and Steve Gilary

A cover story which got me an unexpected gig at Tales from the Darkside