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Hugo Award-winning SF novelist Bester discusses his mid-to-late 1940s work as a scripter for DC (Green Lantern, Genius Jones) and Fawcett (Captain Marvel), recounting how Bill Finger personally tutored him in comics scripting and how he later parlayed comic-book plotting techniques into a career writing radio dramas (Charlie Chan, The Shadow, Nick Carter). He shares colorful anecdotes about Harry Donenfeld, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman sale, the accidental creation of Solomon Grundy (inspired by a Ted Sturgeon story), and working for HOLIDAY magazine for a decade. The interview is accompanied by an excerpt from his autobiographical piece in Hell's Cartographers and reproductions of two different comics adaptations of his novel The Stars My Destination.