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DuBois, who wrote the Dell/Gold Key Tarzan comic virtually uninterrupted from the late 1940s through 1971 before retiring from comics, discusses his long career beginning with pulp western novels and Big Little Books in the 1930s, including ghostwriting The Lone Ranger. He describes how editors shaped Tarzan scripts while he wove in authentic ERB elements, and recalls that the Burroughs family was warned they would "lose money" if they replaced him — advice they ignored, to the series' detriment. A devout Christian, DuBois reflects on religious influence on his writing and argues that Dell's eventual shift toward horror and occult material contributed to the company's commercial decline.