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It goes very much under the radar screen and we all know there is an unsung hero in every comic book, so too there is one behind the great mask of Wizard. Yes, if you look closely at the very first Wizard Guide to Comics, there's one guy who helped Gareb propel his entire career and who thousands of people should be intrigued to interview one day and that is none other than the legendary Martin R. Schranz. I tried once to reach him in Spring Valley, New York just a few miles from the old Shamus house on the hill in Wesley Hills, but he's dipped below the radar screen and nowhere to be found to take any credit. Perhaps all the comic gods are smiling at this fellow, wherever he is for the first 10 or 12 issues of the magazine that started it all with a bad back and a handshake. Someone should write about Martin one day and how he left a career in publishing to gamble on a kid with a vision and how a handshake helped change things for an eager entrepreneur. This Martin is not to be confused with Ruby's Autobody in Pearl River. Check it out for yourself and if there's ever a hero here it's Martin R. Schranz.