Donald F. Glut


























Donald F. Glut
Born
(1944-02-19) February 19, 1944 (age 74)
Pecos, Texas, U.S.
Occupation
Film director, screenwriter, writer
Years active
1953–present
Notable work
The Empire Strikes Back novelization
Dagar the Invincible
The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor
Tragg and the Sky Gods
Awards
Inkpot Award 1980

Donald F. Glut (/ɡluːt/; born February 19, 1944)[1] is an American writer, motion picture film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the novelization of the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.




Contents






  • 1 Filmmaker


    • 1.1 Amateur career


    • 1.2 Professional career




  • 2 Writer


  • 3 Bibliography


  • 4 Awards


  • 5 Comics bibliography


    • 5.1 Archie Comics


    • 5.2 Charlton Comics


    • 5.3 DC Comics


    • 5.4 Gold Key Comics/Western Publishing


    • 5.5 Marvel Comics


    • 5.6 Now Comics


    • 5.7 Skywald Publications


    • 5.8 Warren Publishing




  • 6 References


  • 7 Further reading


  • 8 External links





Filmmaker



Amateur career


From 1953 to 1969, Glut made a total of 41 amateur films, on subjects ranging from dinosaurs, to unauthorized adaptations of such characters as Superman, The Spirit, and Spider-Man.[2]


Due to publicity he received in the pages of Forrest J Ackerman's magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, Glut was able to achieve a degree of notoriety based on his work. This allowed him to increase the visibility of his films by obtaining the services of known actors such as Kenne Duncan and Glenn Strange, who reprised his most famous role as the Frankenstein Monster for Glut.


His final amateur film was 1969's Spider-Man, after which he moved into professional work full-time.


On October 3, 2006 Epoch Cinema released a two-DVD set of all 41 of Glut's amateur films titled I Was A Teenage Moviemaker. The total running time of both DVDs is 480 minutes, and includes a documentary about the making of those films, with interviews with Forrest J Ackerman, Randal Kleiser, Bob Burns, Jim Harmon, Scott Shaw, Paul Davids, Bill Warren, and others.[3]



Professional career


Over the next decades, Glut pursued a variety of professions in the entertainment field. He worked heavily as a screenwriter, mostly in children's television on shows such as Shazam!, Land of the Lost, Spider-Man, Transformers, Challenge of the GoBots, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, DuckTales, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, X-Men, and many more.


He also claimed to have created some of the characters and much of the back story for the Masters of the Universe toy line, which served as the basis for the TV show.[4]


With the release of 1996's Dinosaur Valley Girls, Glut began a professional directing career that has seen him helm several exploitation-style films, such as The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula (2001), The Mummy's Kiss (2003), Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood (2004), The Mummy's Kiss: 2nd Dynasty (2006), and Blood Scarab (2007).[5]



Writer


In addition to the Empire Strikes Back novelization published in 1980 and still in print, Glut has written approximately 65 published books, both novels and nonfiction, plus numerous children's books based on franchises. Many of his nonfiction books have been about dinosaurs, including Dinosaur Dictionary and the Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia series of reference works.


Glut created and wrote several series for Western Publishing's line of Gold Key Comics including The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor,[6]Dagar the Invincible,[7] and Tragg and the Sky Gods.[8] At Marvel Comics, he wrote Captain America, The Invaders, Kull the Destroyer, Solomon Kane, Star Wars, and What If...?. His work for Warren Publishing included Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.[9]



Bibliography




  • The Frankenstein Legend: A Tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff (1973)


  • The Dracula Book (1975)


  • Spawn (#43) (1976)


  • The Great Television Heroes (1975)


  • The Dinosaur Scrapbook (1980)


  • The Empire Strikes Back (1980)


  • The Dinosaur Dictionary (1988)


  • Classic Movie Monsters (1991)


  • The Complete Dinosaur Dictionary (1992)


  • Chomper (Dinotopia, No. 11) (2000)


  • Jurassic Classics: A Collection of Saurian Essays and Mesozoic Musings (2000)


  • The Frankenstein Archive: Essays on the Monster, the Myth, the Movies, and More (2002)


  • True Vampires of History (2004)


  • True Werewolves of History (2004)


  • Shock Theatre, Chicago Style: WBKB-TV's Late Night Horror Showcase, 1957-1959 (2012)



Awards


Glut received an Inkpot Award in 1980.[10]



Comics bibliography




Archie Comics




  • Chilling Adventures in Sorcery #4 (1973)


  • Mad House #95 (1974)


  • Red Circle Sorcery #8, 11 (1974–1975)



Charlton Comics




  • Ghost Manor #29 (1976)


  • Ghostly Haunts #50 (1976)


  • Ghostly Tales #125, 163 (1977–1983)



DC Comics




  • House of Mystery #227, 259, 290 (1974–1981)


  • House of Secrets #121 (1974)



Gold Key Comics/Western Publishing




  • Dr. Spektor Presents Spine-Tingling Tales #1–4 (1975–1976)


  • Gold Key Spotlight #6, 8–9 (1977)


  • Grimm's Ghost Stories #24, 35, 38 (1975–1977)


  • The Little Monsters #27, 36, 38, 43–44 (1974–1978)


  • Mystery Comics Digest #1–21, 23–26 (1972–1975)


  • The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #1–25 (1973–1982)


  • Tales of Sword and Sorcery Dagar the Invincible #1–19 (1972–1982)


  • Tragg and the Sky Gods #1–9 (1975–1982)



Marvel Comics




  • Arrgh #3 (1975)


  • Captain America #217–221 (1978)


  • Ghost Rider vol. 2 #22 (1977)


  • Invaders #29–31, 34, 37–41 (1978–1979)


  • Kull the Destroyer #21–29 (1977–1978)


  • Marvel Premiere #36–37 (3-D Man) (1977)


  • Marvel Preview #19 (1979)


  • Savage Sword of Conan #19, 22, 25–26, 33–34, 37, 39, 46, 49, 53–54 (Solomon Kane backup stories) (1977–1980)


  • Star Wars #10 (1978)


  • Thor #279 (1979)


  • Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #5–6, Annual #1 (1975–1976)


  • Vampire Tales #5 (text article) (1974)


  • What If...? #5, 7–10, 12, 14, 22 (1977–1980)


  • X-Men Adventures #4 (1993)



Now Comics



  • The Twilight Zone #1 (1990)


Skywald Publications



  • Psycho #8 (1972)


Warren Publishing




  • Creepy #29–32, 42 (1969–1971)


  • Eerie #25, 30, 32, 36, 39–41, 51, 125 (1969–1981)


  • Vampirella #1–5, 8–9, 16, 18–19, 23, 37, 90, Annual #1 (1969–1980)




References





  1. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Sims, Chris (June 22, 2012). "The Surprisingly Coherent Spider-Man Fan Film From 1969". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. It’s an 11-minute fan-film produced by Donald Glut in 1969, in which Spider-Man (played, of course, by Glut) battles against a supervillain called 'Dr. Lightning'.


  3. ^ Galbraith IV, Stuart (October 3, 2006). "I Was A Teenage Movie Maker: Don Glut's Amateur Movies". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on August 18, 2010. Donald F. Glut's amateur movies, shot between 1953 and 1969, acquired a kind of legendary status over the years partly because the films, with titles like Son of Tor and Spy Smasher vs. the Purple Monster, were frequently mentioned in the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland and Fantastic Monsters.


  4. ^ Melrose, Kevin (March 10, 2014). "Mattel wins fight with comics writer over He-Man rights". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015.


  5. ^ Khosla, Abhay (March 31, 2010). "An Interview with Donald Glut". Savage Critics. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.


  6. ^ Markstein, Don (2007). "Doctor Spektor". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Dr. Adam Spektor, a researcher of the supernatural, was introduced in Mystery Comics Digest #5 (July, 1972)...The story was written by Don Glut...and drawn by Dan Spiegle.


  7. ^ Markstein, Don (2009). "Dagar the Invincible". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Dagar started as a non-series character, the hero of a story that writer Don Glut...wrote for Gold Key's Mystery Comics Digest.


  8. ^ Markstein, Don (2007). "Tragg and the Sky Gods". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Writer Don Glut...and artist Jesse Santos...supplied the comic, in which aliens from interstellar space had a profound effect on a tribe of Stone Age people.


  9. ^ Donald F. Glut at the Grand Comics Database


  10. ^ "Inkpot Award Winners". Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.




Further reading


  • "The Occult Files of Donald F. Glut: An Interview with the Creator of Dr. Spektor". Interview by Scott Aaron Stine. Trashfiend vol. 1, no. 3 (Jan.-March 2003) pp. 20–23.


External links




  • Donald F. Glut on IMDb

  • Official website


  • Frontline Entertainment Glut's production company website.


  • I Was A Teenage Movie Maker Website devoted to Glut's amateur films.


















Preceded by
Doug Moench
Kull the Destroyer writer
1977–1978
 Succeeded by
n/a
Preceded by
Roy Thomas
What If...? writer
1977–1978
 Succeeded by
Roy Thomas
Preceded by
Roy Thomas
Captain America writer
1978
 Succeeded by
Steve Gerber








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