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In Part One of a two-part interview, Rovin recounts his entry into comics in the early 1970s, starting with Skywald under Sol Brodsky, then writing at DC under Dorothy Woolfolk and Joe Kubert. He moves on to running Warren Publishing's Captain Company mail-order operation under Jim Warren, witnessing the rise of Spanish artists and creators like Rich Corben, Will Eisner, and Bernie Wrightson, and shares colorful anecdotes about Jim Warren's eccentric personality and the events that brought the Warren empire down.

The second and concluding part of a two-part conversation, picking up with his tenure at Martin Goodman's short-lived Atlas Comics in 1974–75 (including titles such as Phoenix, Iron Jaw, Scorpion, and Tarantula) and Goodman's heavy-handed editorial interference that forced Atlas toward Marvel imitation before it folded. Rovin then describes his subsequent freelance career writing pop-culture encyclopedias, Hollywood-scandal books, and his contacts through expert-witness work in copyright cases involving Star Wars, E.T., and The Greatest American Hero.