Ron Goulart was born in 1933 and published his first science fiction story while still a teenager. He's well-regarded for his histories of pulp magazines ( Cheap Thrills ) and comics ( The Adventurous Decade ) and is a prolific fiction writer under his own name and various pseudonyms. He also ghosted the TekWars series credited to William Shatner. Gil Kane (1926-2000) is considered of the best comic book artists of the Silver Age and beyond, having won four awards from the National Cartoonists Society--including Best Story Strip for Star Hawks . During his long career, he is best known for his work on Green Lantern and The Atom for DC Comics, and then a long stint at Marvel, drawing the Amazing Spider-Man and hundreds of cover in the 1970s.