Clea and Stephen Strange check out the scene at “Hell’s Bell’s”; Pierce Turner and Larry Kirwan provide the soundtrack. “One evening, I went to the Bells of Hell nightclub to hear Larry Kirwan and Pierce Turner. Jim Garvey was there, as he was a regular. Alan Cabal was there as well. Alan was an interesting character—brilliant, funny, and creative, with a lively and perceptive mind. He had a pure-hearted aspiration that was striking. But he was also one of the most self-destructive people I've known and could be an obnoxious drunk. He managed to get himself beaten up more than once. A talented writer, he later began crafting articles for The New York Press and elsewhere. On this particular night, he antagonized a fellow patron at the bar and the two of them got into a fight. Cabal needed help. I jumped on top of the other guy from behind and pulled him off Alan. Just at that moment, Bokar walked into the club to see me with my shaved head riding through the air on top of this enraged drunk. It was funny. Bokar is a martial artist. We soon became friends for life. Alan was involved with Bonnie and her husband, Chris Claremont, who also lived in Inwood Park. Chris was a high-level writer at Marvel and was writing Doctor Strange at the time. This particular evening was immortalized in Issue #38, December 1979. It features Turner & Kirwan at the Bells of Hell (called Hell's Bells), an Alan Cabal-like figure killed at the bar, a take-off on the bar fight, a Simon-like cleric visiting from the Vatican library to warn Doctor Strange, and a great magical battle in Inwood Park.” —James Wasserman, In the Center of the Fire: A Memoir of the Occult 1966-1989
