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Power, a British-Australian cartoonist turned Hollywood storyboard artist and second-unit director, recounts his career path from working with John Dixon on the Australian syndicated strip Air Hawk and studying under Alex Toth at Hanna-Barbera, through to storyboarding major films for Spielberg (*Goonies*), Tony Scott (*Top Gun*), and John Hughes (*Pretty in Pink*). He shares colorful anecdotes including getting drunk with John Milius on the Red Dawn set and landing the Goonies gig after Spielberg noticed him as an extra. Power is a vocal advocate for creator rights and independent publishing, argues that Marvel owes Jack Kirby a pension, and promotes his own in-development project East Meets West.

A roundtable end-of-season conversation covering how each became involved with Lois & Clark and how their shared passion for comics shaped it. Topics range from creative constraints imposed by DC Comics and network notes, the difficulty of establishing jeopardy for an invincible superhero, the show's Moonlighting-style romantic tension, to Zabel's anecdote about sitting next to Jerry Siegel at a DC dinner and being asked to sign his own script for the Superman co-creator.

Reader Paul Power clarifies credits on the CI #89 Rocketeer cover (pencilled and inked collaboratively at Neal Adams' Continuity studio); reader Don Markstein (CI typographer) writes in support of a prior editorial on children's literacy, arguing that letting children read comics they enjoy — including TMNT — produces better readers than forcing "dull classics" on them.

Two interviews combined: a long-distance conversation with DAK and Salicrup, plus a follow-up by Dan Hagen. Lee discusses his transition from comics writer to head of Marvel Productions in Hollywood, describing himself as "more of a salesman out here" and detailing the difficulty of getting movies made — projects for the Human Torch (with Irwin Allen), Spider-Man (with Roger Corman), Fantastic Four, Thor, Power Man, and Howard the Duck are all in various stages of development. He candidly addresses Jack Kirby's claims of creating Spider-Man, insisting Kirby "has taken leave of his senses" and recounting his version of events. In the Hagen interview, Lee reflects on the Marvel method of plotting, the constraints of the Spider-Man newspaper strip versus comic books, his disgust with the live-action Captain America and Spider-Man TV shows ("they were just the pits"), and his conviction that the Superman movie was ironically "done Marvel-style." Also discusses his friendship with Alain Resnais, his near-collaboration with Paul McCartney, and Mario Puzo's failed attempt to write a comic book.