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Comic Book Historians

Comic Book Historians

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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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Episodes
  • Martin Filchock interview by David Armstrong

    Martin Filchock interview by David Armstrong
    Mar 2 2026

    David Armstrong interviewed Platinum and Golden Age great, Martin Filchock in 2000 on set at his home in Rogersville, Tennessee about his entry into comic books in the 1930s with Tidbits Magazine, his blue collar background working the railroad, meeting Bill Cook at Comics Magazine Company, working on Mighty Man and other comics at Centaur, his life in the Civilian Conservation Corps and how it reflected in his C.C. Kid strip, working next to Bill Everett, Jack Cole, Lloyd Jacquet, leaving Centaur, and his ability to get work as a cartoonist to get away from the manual labor that most his family settled with. Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong. Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.

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    32 mins
  • Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 2 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson

    Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 2 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
    Feb 2 2026

    Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter in a career spanning biography. Travel thru his life as he joined Marvel as associate editor under Marv Wolfman and his first encounter with the Marvel Method in 1975, the editor-writer wars of the 1970s, origin of Jim Galton, working w/ Editor-in-Chief Archie Goodwin, plotted the Spider-Man news-strip w/ Stan Lee, became Editor-in-Chief in 1978, and wrote the Avengers comic w/ George Perez. Edited & Produced by Alex Grand.

    #Marvel #Jim Shooter #Avengers #StanLee

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 1 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson

    Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 1 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
    Jan 1 2026

    Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter in a career spanning biography. Travel thru his youth as Mort Weisinger's 14- year-old apprentice created the rogue's gallery of the Legion of Superheroes, Princess Projectra, #KarateKid, Ferro Lad's death & intended race, drew layouts with his scripts for DC artists Gil Kane, Wally Wood, and Neal Adams, Captain Action teaching him Toy-Comics synergy, DC’s first drug addiction and rehab comic story, Parasite for Superman, wrote the first Superman-Flash race, Mort Weisinger’s abusive behavior, his short 1969 stay at Marvel Comics, his odd run-ins at the YMCA presented in Hulk Magazine 23 1980, working for an ad agency in the early 1970s, worked at DC Comics again under Julius Schwartz. Edited & Produced by Alex Grand.

    #DCComics #Weisinger #Schwartz #JimShooter

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    1 hr and 48 mins
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