As a teenager in Chicago, Glut began making amateur horror and fantasy
films.
Was a longtime comic book writer, doing stories for such characters as
Vampirella, Captain America, and Kull.
Attended film school with George Lucas at the University of Southern
California, and later wrote an excellent novelization of Lucas's
production "The Empire Strikes Back," which is still in print.
Was in a mid-Sixties rock band called Penny Arkade, who had a record
produced by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees.
Fan of the television show Shock Theatre (1957) and its host Marvin.