Comic Book Historians
As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host & series producer Alex Grand, author of the best seller, Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts Bill Field, David Armstrong, N. Scott Robinson, Ph.D., Jim Thompson) and guests engage in a Journalistic Comic Book Historical discussion between professionals, historians and scholars in determining what happened and when in comics, from strips and pulps to the platinum age comic book, through golden, silver, bronze and then toward modern
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Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 4 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
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Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter in a career spanning biography. Travel thru his life as he brought in and worked with Frank Miller on Daredevil, behind the curtain scenes into Marvel's sale from Cadence to New World, the transition from him to DeFalco in 1987 (6:32:00), raising money to bid to buy Marvel from New World in 1989, his long professional relationship w/ Steve Ditko, his professional relationship w/ Layton & Massarsky (6:35:45), the rise & fall of Valiant Comics, corporate shake ups with Layton & Barry Windsor-Smith, saying goodbye to Don Perlin, giving Joe Quesada his 1st comics job, helped the Image Revolution, helped Milestone comics the rise & fall of Defiant Comics, efforts to again own Marvel during its 1996 bankruptcy, Broadway Comics w/ Lorne Michaels, behind the scenes corporate warfare between ToyBiz & Marvel, Unity 2000, working on America propaganda comics for the state department distributed to the Middle East, his most recent work for DC Comics on the Legion of Superheroes, other current projects, who did what at 1960s Marvel; Stan, Kirby or Ditko, DC comics 1960s suit jacket & tie fashion permeating into 1980s Marvel & 1990s Valiant, & his family. Edited & Produced by Alex Grand.
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