Comic Book Historians

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Joshua Sky Biographical Interview

2026-09-0101:28:41

Joshua Sky, the Masters of the Universe mini-comic writer, joins Comic Book Historians to share growing up on Maui in the 1990s, discovering comics through polybag packs and Marvel trading cards, and finding community in a local Dungeons & Dragons group. He traces his path from a Daily Show internship and five years in Marvel’s licensing division during the Disney acquisition through work at Disney, Fox, and animation on Ben 10 and Niko and the Sword of Light. A science-fiction short stor...

Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 6 of 6 by Alex Grand

2026-08-0301:42:32

Alex Grand & Jim Shooter fill in the gaps not discussed from his career spanning biographical interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson. Shooter starts off on licensing deals with why the movie Star Wars saved Marvel whereas the Superman film didn't, licensed products like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starriors, Crystarr & Raiders of the Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica, Godzilla & Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, ROM , GI JOE, pushing HASBRO to make female GIJOE's, Marv...

Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 5 of 6 by Alex Grand

2026-07-0101:34:05

Alex Grand & Jim Shooter fill in the gaps not discussed from his career spanning biographical interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson. Shooter starts off contrasting both Stan Lee & Jack Kirby both of whom he worked with from 1976-1978 on the Spider-Man newspaper strip & Eternals, talks about their Silver Surfer graphic novel, working with Sol Brodsky at Marvel, seeing Larry Lieber over at Atlas/Seaboard, the copyright law of 1978 that affected his job from his first da...

John Broome & Arnold Drake interview by David Armstrong

2026-06-0138:31

David Armstrong interviewed Golden and Silver Age great, John Broome in 1998 on set at San Diego Comic Con about his entry into comic books and pulps in the 1930s, working at Quality Comics and DC Comics, knowing Otto Binder, his favorite comic book genre, his science fiction stories synergizing with the space race, trying to gather support for creators to claim reprint rights from Jack Liebowitz, his stories of the 1950s, if comic books were a gateway to larger narrative projects, his ...

Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 4 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson

2026-05-0101:58:13

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),...

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