Don Glut was born Donald Frank Glut on February 19, 1944, and has built a remarkably varied career spanning prose fiction, screenwriting, film directing, and comic books. He is perhaps most widely recognized outside comics circles for his novelization of *The Empire Strikes Back* (1980), the second Star Wars film.
The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #1 (1973)
Within comics, Glut maintained a steady presence from 1972 through at least 2025, accumulating credits on 156 issues across a notably pulp-flavored range of titles. He did substantial work on Gold Key's horror and fantasy lines, particularly *The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor* and *Tales of Sword and Sorcery Dagar the Invincible*, books that suited his evident appetite for monster lore and sword-and-sorcery adventure. He also contributed to Marvel titles including *The Invaders*, *Kull, the Destroyer*, and the speculative anthology *What If?*, demonstrating a comfortable range across superhero and genre material. His German-market work on *Gänsehaut* further reflects the breadth of his output.
The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #2 (1973)
Glut's comics writing tends to sit comfortably within genre tradition — energetic, plot-driven, and clearly rooted in a lifelong enthusiasm for horror, science fiction, and fantasy. That same enthusiasm carried across his film and prose work, making him one of the more consistently productive genre generalists of his generation.
