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Krenkel's last interview before his death from cancer on February 24, 1983, at age 63. A warm, rambling conversation about his life as a fantasy artist and inveterate collector, from doing background pencils for Al Williamson and Wally Wood at E.C. Comics to painting Ace paperback covers for Donald Wollheim. Shares vivid memories of his decades-long friendship with Frank Frazetta — all-night coffee sessions on Long Island, watching Frazetta paint with effortless brilliance — and credits Frazetta with pushing him to work more directly. Characteristically self-deprecating about his commercial ambitions ("I was busy dis-inventing work"), he reflects on his gifts as a visual thinker who grasps the "gestalt" of ancient civilizations, his compulsive collecting habits, and his late-life resolve to finally produce something worthy of his accumulated knowledge.