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Alex Grand and Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter about his career in comic books, focusing on his time at Marvel and key events in the industry.

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 ...

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Hosts: Alex Grand, Jim Thompson

Guest: Jim Shooter

Topics covered

• biography
• comic book history
• Marvel Comics
• editorial roles
• interviews

Keywords

• Jim Shooter
• Marvel
• comic book history
• editor-in-chief
• Avengers
• Stan Lee
• biography

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Marvel

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