It was a book I perused now and then, marveling at the flaws in both visuals and writing. I also knew that Wally’s company published a comic book version of the series. I’d been one of those fanatics who camped in front of the boob tube every week and I’d been as dejected as the rest when the show went off the air. “How’d you like to write STAR TREK,” he said.įor a minute, I paused and put my head together. We exchanged pleasantries and then he got to the point of his call. Green, a friend and editor of the GOLD KEY comics line. The voice on the other end of the line was Wallace I. What I got when I picked up the receiver was a Hell of a lot more.
When it rang that cold March morning, I expected no more than usual another used clothing drive or another irate editor wondering whether I’d died. It’s more like my lifeline, my link to the outside world. I’m a writer, a weaver of words, and the telephone is no stranger to me.
Only the memories remain.īut if you’re me, Brother – if you happen to be ME – the dream is just a’borning. You simply flip to MY THREE SONS and open another beer.īut if you’re part of a select group of fanatics that sat glued to the screen for sixty minutes every week just to watch a certain emotionless alien discuss the “logic” of star flight, you write letter, make threatening phone calls, organize boycotts and, finally, give up. If you’re one of the great American Middle Class, you don’t say much of anything. What do you say about a television series that ran for three seasons and died? But just in case one of you lucky readers out there should someday get the chance to do so, Len has submitted the following “How-to” article in the form of a very personalized book review, which he entitles … Len Wein swears the book “The Making of STAR TREK” by Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry was and is an invaluable source for anyone who wants to write STAR TREK comics (tho there aren’t too many folk doing that besides Len, these days). LEN WEIN is one of the most prolific young writers in comic books, and there are comix fans who say the skim comic books looking for stories with his byline, as they are certain to be worth the time spent reading.īuying, that’s another thing, but reading there at the stand with the newsie glowering at them, they’ll risk it.Īmong the many comics Len writes is STAR TREK, which makes him a natural to write about them. …Writing Star Trek for Fun and Profit or YOU try thinking like a know-it-all alien with green blood and pointed ears and see what it does to YOUR head.
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