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 ratingsVisual Arts Arts History jack kirby stan lee marvel comics dc comics comic book alex raymond superman batman wonder woman alex grand Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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