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Roy "the Boy" Thomas’ Marvel Age Interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson

Comic Book Historians

English - December 01, 2022 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
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Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson join former Marvel writer and second Editor-In-Chief of the Marvel  Age after Stan Lee about his origins.  Roy discusses how he left his job as a history teacher to move to New York working at DC Comics with Mort Weisinger, leaving DC for Marvel's Stan Lee, applying his English degree to the Marvel Method, meeting Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko, bringing the pulps like Conan to comics, his political leanings from early 1970s Tom Wolfe to Rolling Stone Magazine, the Rutland Parade and the first cosplay parties at Tom Fagan's house, and his nude scenes in both National Lampoon magazine and Crazy in the context of the post sexual revolution.  Edited & Produced by Alex Grand. 

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