My friend Claude and I met as teenagers in the 1950’s through our science fiction fanzines, SATA and MUZZY. He wrote stories for mine and I contributed to his. Over the years, Claude had a distinguished career as an editor and professor, and wrote many fine novels as well. I was an editor too, and wrote comic book stories for Popeye and Flash Gordon, the Phantom and Thunder Agents. The two of us were steadfast friends until Claude’s death, July 2017.
