Last night, I attended a screening of experimental films at The Arts Centre in Martinsburg, hosted by Don Diego Ramirez, director of the award-winning documentary Trailer Trash. He showed us the works of Maya Deren, Stan Brakhage, Stan VanDerBeek and others, plus one of his own student films. Equally interesting was the display of camera equipment, as well as books and magazines related to independent filmmaking.

A certain copy of Super 8 Filmaker caught my eye. Take a look and I’m sure you’ll understand why.

Seeing Spider-Man on the cover of an October 1974 magazine—which based on magazine cover dates and publishing schedules could have gone on sale just a few weeks after I started working at Marvel Comics—stirred some memories. And flipping to the Table of Contents to see who wrote that cover story stirred a few more …

… because it turned out to be by my old Bullpen pal Steve Gerber!

Steve’s biographical blurb at the bottom of the first page of his article refers to him as “an amateur filmmaker who currently writes comic book stories for Marvel Comics Group in New York City.” Alas, I remember him only as the latter, never having gotten a chance to catch any of his films mentioned in the piece. If anyone out there knows of a way for me see them—particularly his zombie movie—please reach out.

In any case, since I’d never read this article before, I figured it might be equally unknown to others—so check it out below.

And thanks to Don Diego Ramirez for allowing a strange guy he’d just met to borrow one of his magazines, trusting that it would be returned.