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Part one of a wide-ranging retrospective with the top-paid Golden Age comics writer, covering his entry into comics through MLJ Publications in 1942, his work across Quality, Fawcett, and DC on titles including Blackhawk, Captain Marvel, The Spirit, Superman, and Plastic Man. Woolfolk recalls his editors (Harry Shorten, Otto Binder, John Beardsley), his admiration for artist Reed Crandall, his uncertain role in the creation of Captain Marvel Jr., and his self-published ventures (The Mad Hatter, Animal Fables). He characterizes himself as a skilled craftsman-for-hire who invented nothing but pleased every editor, and credits the Golden Age as the best writing ground he ever knew.

Part Two of a two-part interview in which Golden Age comics writer Woolfolk continues discussing his career, including ghostwriting Superman stories for editor Mort Weisinger under his wife Dorothy's name, and his caustic portrait of Weisinger as a manipulative, bullying editor who squeezed writers like oranges. He also discusses his publishing ventures (INSIDE STORY expose magazines, with Weisinger as a partner), his Batman paperbacks written under the pen name Winston Lyon, his TV work on The Defenders (including a memorable anecdote about William Shatner demanding more screen time), and his mainstream novels — noting his recent return to comics with an Action Comics story. He reflects that comics were an invaluable testing ground for learning plot construction.

Reader mail includes a fan disputing Carl Macek's adaptation of Macross as Robotech, a letter from writer William Woolfolk correcting name errors from his earlier two-part interview, and readers asking for help connecting with APAs and other aspiring professionals.