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Jim Shooter is a writer and editor of various comic books. He started professionally in the medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics' ninth editor-in-chief from 1978 to 1987, and founder of Valiant Comics and Editor-In-Chief from 1989 to 1992. Also founder of Defiant Comics and Broadway Comics. As a writer, he is best known for his work on The Avengers, The Legion of Superheroes, Secret Wars, Star Brand, Harbinger, Magnus: Robot Fighter, and Solar: Man of the Atom.
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📜 Video chapters
00:00 Childhood Origins & Marvel Fan
07:30 Who did what: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko
18:07 Mort Weisinger's Apprentice
19:00 Working on Legion of Superheroes
25:00 Creating the Karate Kid
28:00 Ferro Lad's Race & Death
39:20 1960s DC comics dress code at 1980s Marvel & 1990s Valiant
43:00 Rogues Gallery/Princess Projectra
45:35 Drawing Layouts for Gil Kane, Wally Wood, Neal Adams
53:20 Captain Action Toys-Comics synergy
1:07:00 Writing DC’s first drug rehab story
1:09:00 Writing first Superman-Flash race
1:13:09 Mort Weisinger's Abuse
1:27:00 Short 1969 stay at #MarvelComics
1:28:00 YMCA in Hulk Magazine 23 1980
1:39:00 Short 1969 stay at Marvel Comics
1:44:00 Working at Ad Agency in the early 1970s
1:45:00 Working DC Comics again under Julius Schwartz
1:58:15 Became Marvel Associate Editor under Marv Wolfman 1975
2:04:00 Editor-Writer Wars of 1970s Marvel
2:10:00 Origin of Jim Galton
2:11:40 Editor-Writer Wars of 1970s Marvel
2:16:10 Working with Archie Goodwin EIC
2:21:00 Plotting Spider-Man strip w/ Stan Lee
2:27:20 Becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1978
2:29:00 #Avengers comic w/ George Perez
2:37:30 Ant-Man/Wasp Controversy
2:48:10 Dead Korvac saga sequel
2:57:00 Stern & Monica Rambeaux - Diversity in Marvel Bullpen
3:01:40 Star Wars & Superman films reinvigorated Marvel in 1978
3:07:00 Ending Editor/Writer 1970s Marvel
3:09:30 Overseeing Walt Simonson's Thor
3:12:00 Epic Illustrated with Rick Marschall & Archie Goodwin
3:16:30 Ending Editor/Writer 1970s Marvel
3:17:40 Working with Archie Goodwin EIC
3:23:00 Death of the Marvel Black and White Magazines
3:25:18 #StanLee, Jim Shooter & Jim Galton in the early 1980s
3:26:30 Royalty Incentive Plan at Marvel
3:30:55 Assessment of Paul Levitz
3:32:10 Creation of #Dazzler
3:38:11 Marvel's Editor-in-Chief via Phil Seuling & Chuck Rozanski
3:46:06 Working with Bob Hall
3:48:25 Ant-Man/Wasp Controversy
4:01:40 Graphic Novels to Marvel with Jim Starlin
4:06:03 Overseeing Chris Claremont's X-Men
4:20:20 John Byrne on X-Men, Captain America & Fantastic Four
4:29:36 Marvel DC comic crossovers & dead Avengers/JLA story
4:44:00 Contest of Champions with Bill Mantlo
4:46:00 #SecretWars w/ Mike Zeck
4:52:00 Marvel Universe handbook genesis
4:56:00 Mark Gruenwald
5:00:50 Shooter & Steve Gerber with Secret Wars 2
5:02:00 Stewart the Rat
5:09:20 Steve Gerber - Howard the Duck settlement
5:10:00 Marvel's legal issues with Jack Kirby
5:11:00 Getting Steve Ditko back his Original Art vs Jack Kirby
5:14:45 Marvel's sale from Cadence to New World
5:20:40 Steve Gerber - Howard the Duck settlement
5:25:25 Original Kirby Spider-Man proposal to Marvel
5:26:35 1985/6 Corporate War that affected his Managerial style
5:30:00 John Byrne on X-Men, Captain America & Fantastic Four
5:33:00 Marvel's sale from Cadence to New World
5:33:40 Dark Knight Returns begat the Fall of the Mutants
5:37:50 Wolfman, Colan, Moench, Chaykin, Ploog , Roy Thomas leave Marvel
6:07:10 Sad Death of Gene Day
6:17:00 New Universe & Jenette Kahn's Crisis on Infinite Earths
6:24:30 Marvel's sale from Cadence to New World
6:32:00 Tom DeFalco becomes Editor-In-Chief
6:35:45 His relationship w/ Bob Layton & Massarsky
6:42:10 Raising money to buy Marvel from New World in 1989
6:43:45 Rise & Fall of #ValiantComics
6:47:00 His Relationship w/ Steve Ditko
6:50:00 Valiant shakeups with Layton & Barry Windsor-Smith
6:59:20 Saying Goodbye to Don Perlin
7:01:35 Giving Joe Quesada his 1st comics job
7:02:01 Helping the #ImageRevolution
7:06:45 Helping Milestone Comics
7:08:00 Rise & Fall of #DefiantComics
7:15:35 #BroadwayComics w/ Lorne Michaels
7:18:45 Trying to buy Marvel during its 1996 bankruptcy
7:22:00 Corporate Warfare between ToyBiz & Marvel
7:23:10 Mark Gruenwald
7:23:45 Unity 2000
7:25:10 Joining Illustrated Media 2003
7:26:25 America propaganda comics for the State Dept in Middle East
7:28:50 Recent Legion of Superheroes
7:38:00 Family - Розваги
He wasn't the Darth Editor his detractors promised he would be. Listened to the whole thing. Very nice job, guys!
Jim Shooter's time at Marvel is my all time favorite. Great creative teams that had long runs. Classic stories and art. Unbeatable.
Love Jim. So true!
INCREDIBLE INTERVIEW! except for the portion where a divorce lawyer tries to act like a moral authority and keeps pressing Shooter on the Wasp slap.
Yea. Very unclassy
I listen to this interview often in the background while I work. It’s amazing and I now love and honor Jim for all he did for comics and what a decent guy he is. I agree the attacks were an absolute lowlight of this video.
Impressive that Shooter, or anyone, would sit for such a long interview, unflinching, where every topic - positive & negative - is addressed head-on. Thank you CBH for your thorough research and respectful presentation, and thank you Shooter for your transparency and candor.
A great leader knows how to argue and not deal with emotions.. Shooter is an excellent example.
I already liked the guy. Much more respect for him after 2 hours so far.
I met him twice at conventions, and the 2nd time I was at his table something past 3 hours. I enjoyed listening to him talk. Nobody else came his his table the entire time I was there to get stuff signed by him. Might have spent $300 on signatures, but it was well spent because I didn't want to waste his time without paying for something.
I love Jim Shooter. He produced the best Marvel outside of Stan and Jack. This stream is incredible, thank you guys so much.
Definitely.. His era was the best time to be a kid. Loved what he created.
Agreed. I also believe that the New Universe stuff is criminally underrated. The writing quality was head and shoulders above any mainline marvel book at the time. I think that mainline writers not on board with it opposed it so much due to it clearly out shining even spiderman and xmen at the time, and il argue that all day. Art wasnt the best, except for starbrand, that didnt help but the writing, top notch around the board and new u is still something i re read from top to bottom atleast once a year, i gotta start this years read soon, maybe after i get done here complimenting shooter while also e-slapping him for being such an unlikeable person. What he did for valiant was also ground breaking, shooter valiant books were also head and shoulders about dc and marvel writing wise at the time. Ive read Erik Larsen call those books "wretched" and him call the art horrible which is ironic since Larsens art is incredibly loose, sloppy and often not pleasing to the eye (i am a fan though, mainly savage dragon but his art isnt good enough to go around trashing others). I see why people hated shooter tho, hes not a pleasent man to be around even in an interview i want to ask him why hes so miserable sounding. Book wise tho, everything he touched turned to gold, in my opinion. He had an uncanny ability to keep entire lines of books tight knit, to a fault even, i can see why some would be turned off a bit creative wise. Thats enough shooter love and e-slapping for the night. I agree, hes a legend with an asshole tendency but i love him.... I always wished that DC got him to re-launch and EIC for a few years to get it in order.
I'm the Mark Lerer who introduced Jim to Gil Kane in that great comic-con interview that Jim talks about from 48:21 to 49:39. It was a great time for all of us in the Pittsburgh Comics Club! Best wishes to Jim and all you folks at Comic Book Historians.
Wow. That's very cool. Jim's era was my favorite. I'll never get why so many creators hate him. I've seen John Byrnes interviews about Shooter & he clearly despised the man.
Mr. Shooter's career spans three decades of classic comics and he has contributed some amazing quality to all of it. I feel the one's who demonize him just have egos that can't handle criticism. Thank you Jim for everything you did.
Guys, for a lot of time periods in my 40 1/2 years on earth, Marvel Comics was the most important thing in my life. I really can‘t thank you and Jim Shooter enough for doin‘ this interview (and also thank every other artist in your other interviews for sittin‘ down and spendin‘ time for an interview). Thank heavens Jim S. is fit, has a excellent memory and is not afraid to talk straight. Talkin‘ straight don‘t makes you the most sympathic person on earth, because a lot of people don‘t like straight talk or hearin‘ the truth, but I‘m all in for that. So Jim‘s my main. And as much as I like Doug Moench as a creator I can‘t understand him when he says he hates Jim Shooter. Very sad.
5 hours in and I would never want for this video to end.
Watching more of this today and you hear so often about the horrors of Shooter yet every interview I see he's forthcoming, never dodges an issue (no pun) and keeps his stories straight. This has led me to believe most of the hate just comes down to the fact that he was the boss, everyone has an issue with the boss no matter the industry. Professional decisions cant help but feel personal especially when dealing with creatives. The results, the output speaks for itself. Also, the Grammercy Hotel😂 Also (Also) Shooters idea about the concept of truth being in the middle as a victory for the wrong side is a legit revelation to me.
This is a legendary interview! It should have a million views!
thank you!
Shooter's candor and willingness to tell it like it is, is impressive. I think he set the record straight on a lot of things. Thanks for providing this interview.
Thanks! please make sure to check out part 2! ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
The Shooter era at Marvel was superb. Outside of the Lee/Kirby/Ditko era in the 60's and early 70's, it is, IMO, Marvel's best era. My favorite comics and creators of all time came out of this period. Marvel has not duplicated the greatness of this since, IMO. Shooter did a lot right for this to be the case. I wasn't there, and don't know the man personally, though I have met him a few times at cons over the decades, but, I must say, it takes balls to sit for an 8 hour interview and answer questions as truthfully as Shooter does here. My hat's off to him. I appreciate the fun he brought to my high school years during his tenure at Marvel.
Thank you. One way or another, this guy is responsible for the BEST comics I have ever read. It was great to spend the afternoon with him today.
At first I looked at the time stamp of 7+ hours and was like NO WAY. But I'm 2 hours in and hooked! This is really great interview.
5 hours in (often listen to it as I drift off to sleep and rewind the next day to “as far back as I remember”). Such a treasure trove of behind the scenes at Marvel (and other publishers)!
I find Shooter fascinating. I cannot believe you interviewed him for 8 hours straight. To your credit, the entire interview was captivating. Great job.
Thank you for this. Good to see Jim Shooter in good health and to listen to him.
When I first saw this I thought there's no way I'm going to watch a close-to 8 hour interview, but I've just finished the whole thing and, somehow, it flew by. Great interview
I felt the same. It was so compelling. Thank you, CBH.
I'm so happy to get a 8 hours long interview from Jim Shooter. Always had lots of respect for him
Same here! Here’s another 4 hour segment to add to this one. ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
This is the illest comic book related interview I've seen on UA-cam
The Hank Pym / Wasp treatment was excellent story-writing in my opinion. Felt very realistic, and similar to so many real life situations.
Loved how it was done. The lawyer has a bit of a "white knight" mindset.
Wow. Impressive interview. Jim Shooter was a great editor in chief. Marvel was at its best when he was at the helm.
I started reading comics during Shooter's era and it's still my favorite. Fantastic interview.
This may be the best video I have ever watched on UA-cam; it’s top 3 at the least. Thanks so much, CBH - and, thank you, Mr. Shooter. :)
Really enjoyed this, thanks for getting it done. I love Shooter, and his time running Marvel had the best of the best stuff coming out for years. And I’ve learned that anyone who’s hated that hard, by a number of people, particularly well-known malcontents, are not only not bad, but good, and even great.
Jim Shooter has always been a Hero to me. Loved the comics at marvel. And the comics at Valiant were just as good or Better. Thank you Mr Shooter!!!!!
I’m on the third hour! Amazing! Shooter and Weisinger’s relationship sounds crazy! Crazy period between DC and Marvel
I have come back to this interview so many times over the last two years. I just want to say how much it means to me. Thank you, CBH ✌🏽🌻
I could listen to Shooter reminisce about the years when I was a kid buying comics all day. I literally just did!
Wow, a 7 hours + interview! Thank you Alex and Jim!
I have vol.1 of Defiant Comics "Warriors of Plasm" and i think it is one of the best comic stories I have ever read that didn't have a moral to it. While reading it all i kept telling myself I have never read a story so well put together!!! - I hope sometime in the future to get the rest of the volumes because it is an amazing world!!! Every time you hear about Jim Shooter from isiders they all say the best things about him. "If you needed results you get Shooter." and I don't know how many times I've heard "Jim Shooter needs to be brought back" when there is a problem because "if Shooter was hear none of this would be happening" - He leaves an impression just from those who knew him and his work ethic!!
Wow, so many great tidbits here! Especially love the bohemian spirit that Marvel had when Shooter first stepped foot in there!! Great channel!
Amazing interview. I saw how long it was and said to myself there's no way, but I started watching and it just flew by. Very informative and fun.
Man! What a nice thing to hear all these interviews, thanks a lot guys.
It brings me back to my childhood, while I was deeply enjoying those comics and these guys were having lots of stress to make a buck and make the company very rich.
Amazing how writers and artists had a hard time trying to be on top of the game, dealing with editors, publishers, dead lines and such.
How much money these company used to do or even still do nowadays.
So much arguments, stress, hate, ego, misunderstanding , lost of friendship...
The way I see, Jim Shooter were doing the best he could to please everyone, unfortunately it's impossible.
And on top of that keep the company on high level, and ended up being screwed over from top asses.
In the end nothing matters but f..ng money.
I look back and compare old arts and nowadays and see that back in time there was so much details and passion for the art, and many delivered on time.
Nowadays there's so much bad art, very low rendering, bad anatomy and so on and they still run out of deadline.
I have a hard time to pick up a comics today and be impresssed with art, and besides that you have also a hard time to follow story telling.
Layout of panels are so random that you don't know where to start or end a single page.
And to mess things up, where have woke damn comics coming out.
Sigh! How I miss the old times.
Love Shooter! What a legend, and sooo underappreciated.
What an epic and memorable interview. Thanks to all!
This was amazing. One of the best interviews I have ever listen too. Love that it was so long.
The Jim Shooter era at Marvel is the best. Would love to read the Valiant stuff but it is hard (and to expensive) to find those books in Sweden.
This is one of the most fascinating and insightful interviews I have ever had the pleasure to hear. Your work, and Jim's sincerity to talk about every aspect of his career is very much appreciated.
Thank you Andreas. Make sure to check out part 2 when you have time
This gentleman spearheaded the most creatively fecund era at Marvel comics of all time. Truly one of tge greats.
4 hours in and this is a great interview
I have always had a lot of respect and admiration for Jim shooter. It feels like that he was quite a hard boss but he surely brought results and I also feel that he was quite misunderstood
Just listened to this from start to finish on a long drive...great way to pass the time. Very interesting stuff. I agree with Shooter's point that sometimes it doesn't make sense to "split the difference" between two versions of an incident...on the other hand, sometimes it does. 🤷♂️
Mr. Shooter was responsible for some of my favorite Avengers stories as a kid. Really good interview (despite the vendetta re the slap). Kudos to all involved.
Alex & Jim 😃 Thank you very much for the extremely informative and engaging interview with super accomplished Jim Shooter!👍
Thanks! make sure to check out the second installment. Cheers
@@ComicBookHistorians 😃 Thanks for the suggestion!👍 I recently did check out the second installment and enjoyed it so much that I then checked out this first installment for the second time (after checking it out a while ago).
Man o man. This is incredible. Nothing held back on what was happening (as we would expect from Mr Shooter) thank you so much
Mr. Shooter is a class act. Professional, knows his stuff.. and well .. and better than most .. a genuine leader who knows what it means and has the backbone to do it and I'm very grateful I was all in buying comic books during his time of leadership and creativity at Marvel. The only letter I ever had published in a comic book was in The Avengers #174 voicing how happy I was that he was the one crafting the stories because I knew how good he was - one among a few - at crafting stories for so many characters and making it work, and work really well.
X-Men #137. Me and a buddy, teenagers at the time, had just bought our copies at the local news stand, along with our weekly haul, and had sat down across from each other at the back of the bus taking us home. 137 was the first thing each of us pulled out of our bags and began to read. After a few minutes I happened to look over at my buddy ( his favorite team was The X-Men and his favorite characters were - and still are - Scott and Jean ) and noticed he was just holding his issue still - open, not turning a page - and staring at it - and then I saw a single tear drop out of his eye and run down his cheek. I knew then that Jean was dead. I just knew. I closed my issue and put it back in the bag and we sat in silence the rest of the trip home.
Listening to Mr. Shooter talk about the many details of his time at Marvel makes me even more thankful I was able to enjoy so many great comic books he was responsible for. Nothing can ever take that away from me. Things, as many know, aren't all that great these days at Marvel, and haven't been for a long time, but Mr. Shooter's time running Marvel gives me hope that regardless of how bad things have gotten ( my opinion ) the tide can turn. I hope to still be around at the turning of the tide.
Thanks, all you good folks at Comic Book Historians, for a really great interview.
Phenomenal interview. Shooter is just a fountain of comic knowledge and was behind the scenes of many pivotal moments. You guys touched on everything and he has some great tales. Took me 3 days to listen to everything but THANKS for this!
Make sure to listen to part 2!
Outstanding interview guys. Amazing episode. Thank you Jim for being so open. Wow! I learned so much.
Great interview, I love shooter, he’s legit!
I’ve been wanting to see an in-depth interview with Shooter for sooooo long! Thanks.
This interview is the gift that keeps on giving, WOW!
Make sure to check out the next one (with Shooter) that fills in missing gaps! ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
Absolutely Epic Interview - One of the comic legends !
Thanks so much for this, I think I requested this last year on one of your other interview vids. And thanks to Jim for taking us through it all.
Boy, what a life.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Alex, another amazing video. Jim had amazing questions too, so good.
Epic interview, Jim is a legend and good sport for doing this interview. Couldn’t have been easy being the guy in the hot seat trying to handle a bunch of creatives while maintaining the company’s interests!
Thank you! Make sure to check out part 2! ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.htmlsi=PGoOUPu0BZi0-m70
I guess I’m not watching the Snyder cut today 😄
Most of my favorite Marvel books had his name plastered as EiC he's an absolute legend
MAGNIFICENT interview.. Jim is the best
what a great interview....whole thing awesome..... listened to whole thing and now my last couple of dreams have been recited in jim shooters voice!
Haha thanks! Make sure to check out its sequel. ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
I love Shooters Marvel era. But more than the stories from the comics I would love to see an autobiographical AMC style series about all the corporate backstabbing, dirty pool and shenanigans he has endured over his career.
Shooter got me into comics as a kid. And It wasn't Superman or Spider-Man that got me to grab a book off the spinner rack, it was the early Transformers books he licensed along with G.I. Joe. 7 hours, damn! And I'll make it through all of it.👌
Jim Shooter is the man. He is sorely missed in comics. If you ever get the chance, check out his blog...awesome stories.
I started reading marvel during shooters era and stopped reading marvel soon after his departure ,just sayin.
What a brilliant fascinating post , well done to all involved , so enjoyable, had to watch it over a few days but worth every minute
Amazing interview, guys. What a feat!
Amazing interview!. I could watch another 7 hours of Jim talking about the Valient/ Defiant/ Broadway characters and storylines. Def my comic book hero! I wonder why he never self published or went for an image book.
Thank you for sharing one the best interview I have seen and listened to. Very interesting and very in-depth love it can't get enough of it. You got something here very good I discussed that it was excellent.
I wanna see the alternate universe where Jim Shooter DIDN'T get fired from Marvel.
What other greatness would he have gotten done there?
What Shooter says about Stan Lee's merits is very reasonable, all the hate (see what Alan Moore said... ) always appeared to be over the top.
This is THE best comic book channel on UA-cam! You guys are doing excellent work!
Thank you!
It's interesting hearing the drastic differences in what Shooter and DeFalco have to say about each other.
Any chance a text transcript of this will be made available? This is great work.
Exhaustive, and incredibly interesting. I watched the entire thing. Keep up the great work.
Great interview guys
The comic book Jim is talking about at 6:19:45 is Marvel Team-Up #28 ("The City Stealers"). It's written by Gerry Conway with interior pencils by Jim Mooney and inks by Vince Colletta. This issue went on sale September 24th, 1974. The story was officially labelled one of Marvel's silliest moments in the late nineties fan magazine called Marvel Vision.
Jim Shooter, you inspired me working in comics! Shooter in my hero!
Best interview i have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shooter is on par with Lee and Kirby.
Wow, I don't know what's crazier-that you guys conducted a nearly 8 hour interview or that I sat through it lol. Seriously, great job. I was in college and a devoted reader of the Comics Journal back in the early '80s, so I remember many of the controversies about Shooter. Even then, not being on the inside and having no real personal investment, I always took everything with a grain of salt, simply finding all the reporting about it to be entertaining drama. I give you credit for bringing up difficult issues and trying to see if he had any regrets or at least felt that the other side, even in retrospect, had valid concerns, but Shooter never seemed to "take the bait" (for lack of a better term). I guess he has to be able to sleep at night. But he acquits himself well in the interview, and certainly tells some fascinating behind the scenes stories, particularly in explaining his side of the many controversies he was involved with. At the end of the day, given his position, I'm sure it's impossible to make decisions that will please everyone. But one also has to wonder how he managed to seemingly make so many enemies and achieve such notoriety, compared to some other people in the industry who served in similar roles-he's fairly unique in that regard, so many bridges seem to have been burned. A common problem he seemed to encounter was having to deal with, and being beholden to, people/owners/bosses who really didn't understand or care for comics, and who wanted to sell, make a profit and exit as soon as they could, versus try to build a business/legacy of long-lasting IP.
Make sure to watch part 2! ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
@@ComicBookHistorians Yes, that's on my radar too!
A magnificent and entertaining interview. Thank You!
Amazing. Great interview.
the best interview ever!!! thanks so much!!!
Wow--- this will take a couple sittings to listen to all of it. He was very generous with his time!
also check out part 2 when you're done! ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
That was awesome! There wasn't a boring minute in this super extensive interview. Thank you.
Thanks! Make sure to check out part 2
@@ComicBookHistorians Already started watching it, thanks :)
Great interview.
GOAT status for sure! I would love to meet him some day just to thank him.
This is fantastic thanks so much for sharing this.
Wow 7 hours? This is gonna be awesome!!! Also (early in) so happy Stan Lee got his props b
More like 8 hrs! And so much covered
@@WilliamByronIs LOL hopefully you know what I meant.
8 hours is a big investment. I will still try... but only because it is Jim Shooter.
what a real pleasure this was. Thanks for it!
no problem, make sure to watch part 2!
Will do!! Would lvoe to see more of these super long interviews with classic creators! @@ComicBookHistorians
Good to see that when things worked out he was behind it, but when things went wrong it wasn´t his fault :) but hey, those things don´t take away the merit of his work. He was responsible for lots of great stuff and specially for fighting for the rights of the creative people. And he´s also an acomplished and competent writer. He could kick the ass of most guys working in the comics industry right now. Long live JS
Cary Bates created the cover idea for Superman #167 (February 1964) and plotted the story, which Ed Hamilton wrote.
Jim.Shooter is the nicest guy met him couple of weeks ago.. he loves.telling stories
Pure gold!!!! Love this so much!
I checked out that super villain team up 3 he wrote. It was altered to having a jester mocking doom, in that manner, who at the end doom wastes.
Funny how Tony Isabella got Stan's attention by tattling on Len and Marv. Not by plotting or scripting anything good or briefly editing the crappy black-&-white mags canceled on his watch, but by trying to get his coworkers fired. Speaks volumes about the guy.
Lot of respect for Shooter, so needless to say I loved every minute of this. Can't believe nobody asked him about the big Avengers #200 controversy over the course of 8 hours. Epic Fail there, but otherwise, big thumbs up!
Asked about here: ua-cam.com/video/m4VrPRmoCZs/v-deo.html
@@ComicBookHistorians Thanks a lot! Looking forward to checking this out!
I loved watching all this (i'm at Valiant section) but the Valiant and Defiance Comic sections are the ones i was waiting/waited for. I love reading Valiant Comics and i don't know why so many people hate on them!!!! I wish the Defiant section would be longer because i read "Warriors of Plasm" Vol. 1 and that tpb was so amazing (as i stated below) I hope one day to collect the whole Defiant Catilog!
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Great book!
Good chat!
Most of the supervisors/managers I’ve had in my life that were good at their job were not popular with employees. You can be a good manager to your staff or you can be their friends but it’s very difficult to be both. That’s just how it goes in business. When you are trying to get the most out of your staff you will inevitably offend people.
FYI, that Professor X in bondage gear thing absolutely happened and it was on Shooters watch. It was in Uncanny X-Men 193. The Morlocks heal Prof. X after he was attacked, and his clothes were ruined so they put him in bondage gear. He even flips out about it. It's a funny moment because the X-men are laughing at him when he walks into the danger room wearing it. Especially Cannonball who had the same thing done to him and when he walked in in that kind of clothing, Professor X had admonished him. It was great comedy.