Arthur Winslow was a would-be author who dreamed of living the life of a fictional hero, along the lines of the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, James Bond, or Buck Rogers. His fictional stories of that genre were rejected, because they were out of fashion. Instead he was forced to become a security guard to pay his bills. He spent seven uneventful months in that position before encountering Phelch, having freshly crash-landed on Earth. Later, during a confrontation between Howard, the Kidney Lady, and a cab driver, Arthur was present and had a passing moment of deja vu, but nothing came of it.