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

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 arrangement of Marvel's 1970s, overseeing Walt Simonson's Thor, overseeing the genesis of Epic Illustrated with Rick Marschall and Archie Goodwin, explaining the death  of the Marvel Black and White Magazines, the business discussions between Stan Lee, Jim Shooter & Jim Galton in the early 1980s, the creation of Dazzler, starting the royalty incentive plan at Marvel,  his assessment of Paul Levitz, contributing to the growth of the early direct market as Marvel's Editor-in-Chief via Phil Seuling & Chuck Rozanski, bringing Graphic Novels to Marvel with Jim Starlin, overseeing Chris Claremont's X-Men, the inside to Marvel's legal issues with Jack Kirby over original art, the terms of the Steve Gerber - Howard the Duck settlement, the creation of Contest of Champions with Bill Mantlo, the departures of some 1970s Marvel creators for DC Comics in the early 1980s including Wolfman, Colan, Moench, Chaykin, Ploog & Roy Thomas, Secret Wars w/ Mike Zeck & the black Spider-Man suit, wrote or edited the Marvel DC comic crossovers & the dead Avengers/JLA story,  the original Kirby Spider-Man proposal to Marvel, fond memories of Mark Gruenwald, oversaw John Byrne on X-Men, Captain America & Fantastic Four, genesis of the Marvel Universe handbook, the corporate situation that led to his different managerial temperament in the later half of his reign, how Dark Knight Returns begat the Fall of the Mutants. Edited & Produced by Alex Grand.  #XMen #Marvel #Jim Shooter #Avengers #StanLee© 2021 Comic Book HistoriansSupport the show