Let's see if I can remember how this went. I was editing two maybe three British weeklies and FOOM magazine.

Then Marv Wolfman handed off some of the black-and-white mags he had been editing to me: MONSTERS UNLEASHED, TALES OF THE ZOMBIE, DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU. Then Marvel launched PLANET OF THE APES and I got it. Then we turned Gerry Conway's HAUNT OF HORROR from a prose digest to a comics magazine and I got that one, too. I was overseeing MONSTERS FROM THE MOVIES (which was edited by somebody from the West Coast) and assisting Roy Thomas on UNKNOWN WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION. I wasn't doing all the above at once, but I was doing a lot of them at once.

I was freaking insane, wasn't I?

Jim Warren offered me a job editing EERIE in the middle of all this. I didn't want to stop writing GHOST RIDER for Marvel, so I turned him down. It would have likely ended in tears, but I always wondered what I'd have done with all the free time if I'd taken Warren's generous offer.

I burned out on staff, handed the black-and-whites off to Don McGregor and the British weeklies to Duffy Vohland, freelanced for Marvel and did the odd special project (like the 1976 calendar), moved back to Cleveland for a bit, came back to work for DC, and then moved back to Ohio for good.

One quick story.

I hired Chris Claremont as my assistant editor on the black-and-whites. There was some concern because he was still working as an actor occasionally. Someone (either Roy or Sol) thought that he would quit if he ever got a good acting gig.

I thought Chris would be perfect for the position, so I lied to my bosses and said:

"Don't worry. I've seen him act."