Lupoff writes on these subjects with the immediacy and detail of someone who is not so much recalling them as living them now.
Each of these professional and semi-professional turns gets its due, along with absolutely endearing accounts of Lupoff sharing comics which his beloved brother, Jerry enduring the rituals and discipline of military boarding school writing up high school sports games for the local newspapers and enjoying his lifelong fondness for the game of baseball. Lupoff wears more hats than Bartholomew Cubbins: he jump-started modern comic book fandom with his wife, Pat he edited and published the fiction of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs he held down white-collar jobs at IBM and, in the last two decades, he has become a prolific writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Lupoff’s autobiography, distilled from the many essays he has written on science fiction, comic books, old-time radio programs, genre fiction, movies, and other forms of contemporary popular culture, is a delightful tour in which the subjects that caught his fancy and stoked his enthusiasm for them are front and center.
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