Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 6 of 6 by Alex Grand

Alex Grand & Jim Shooter fill in the gaps not discussed from his career spanning biographical interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson.  Shooter starts off on licensing deals with why the movie Star Wars saved Marvel whereas the Superman film didn't, licensed products like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starriors, Crystarr & Raiders of the Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica, Godzilla & Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, ROM , GI JOE, pushing HASBRO to make female GIJOE's, Marvel Productions animation's relationship with Stan Lee under DePatie & Margaret Loesch, the origin of Transformers & Optimus Prime, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends with Iceman & FireStar,  his creation of Cybertron, Stan Lee's formal title as publisher in the 1980s, Star Comics, Care Bears, He-Man, Spider-Ham, Royal Roy Harvey lawsuit with Warren Kremer, ThunderCats, Avengers 200 with Marcus & Carol Danvers, 1986 being the year of corporate war, Jim Owsley/Christopher Priest, Why he didn't stop New Universe after funding was cut, his working relationship with Barry Windsor-Smith and Valiant corporate deals, why he penciled under the name Paul Creddick in the early Valiant days, Don Perlin, working on new Valiant and Darkhorse with Mike Richardson in 2007, and his final verdict on Gary Groth and the Comics Journal.  Edited & Produced by Alex Grand.  #Animation #Jim Shooter #Godzilla  #GIJoe #Transformers© 2021 Comic Book Historians, LLC.Support the show