Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 3 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson

About this episode

Alex Grand and Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter about his career and contributions to the comics industry.

Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter in a career spanning biography. Travel thru his life as he discusses the Ant-Man Wasp controversy, the dead Korvac saga sequel, oversaw Roger Stern create Monica Rambeaux, improving access to opportunities in the comics industry to African-American, Asian and female creators like Denys Cown, Ron Wilson, Larry Hama and Louise Simonson, how both Star Wars and the Superman film reinvigorated Marvel in 1978, ending the editor-writer ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex Grand, Jim Thompson

Guest: Jim Shooter

Topics covered

• biography
• comics industry
• diversity in comics
• Marvel history
• interview

Keywords

• Jim Shooter
• comics
• Marvel
• diversity
• interview
• biography
• Ant-Man
• Korvac
• Star Wars
• Superman

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ant-Man Wasp, Korvac saga, Star Wars, Superman

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