Comic Book Historians
Presented by Alex Grand
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As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host & series producer Alex Grand, author of the best seller, Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts Bill Field, David Armstrong, N. Scott Robinson, Ph.D., Jim Thompson) and guests engage in a Journalistic Comic Book Historical discussion between professionals, historians and scholars in determining what happened and when in comics, from strips and pulps to the platinum age comic book, through golden, silver, bronze and then toward modern
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John Broome & Arnold Drake interview by David Armstrong
David Armstrong interviewed Golden and Silver Age great, John Broome in 1998 on set at San Diego Comic Con about his entry into comic books and pulps in the 1930s, working at Quality Comics and DC…
S1E111 Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 4 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 brought in and worked with Frank Miller on Daredevil, behind the curtain scenes…
S1E110 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…
Martin Filchock interview by David Armstrong
David Armstrong interviewed Platinum and Golden Age great, Martin Filchock in 2000 on set at his home in Rogersville, Tennessee about his entry into comic books in the 1930s with Tidbits Magazine,…
S1E109 Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 2 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 joined Marvel as associate editor under Marv Wolfman and his first encounter with…
S1E113 Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 1 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 youth as Mort Weisinger's 14- year-old apprentice created the rogue's gallery of the Legion…
Creig Flessel & Fred Guardineer interview by David Armstrong
David Armstrong interviewed Platinum and Golden Age great, Creig Flessel in 1998 on set at Long Island, New York about his early training in the Grand Central Art School, his entry into comic books…
Joe Simon & Vincent Sullivan interview by David Armstrong
David Armstrong interviewed Golden Age great, Joe Simon in 1998 on set at San Diego Comic Con about his entry into Hearst comic strips in the 1930s, comic books in Funnies Inc and becoming…
The Silver Age Panel at San Diego Comic Con 2025: How Flash Saved the Comic Book Industry
In 1955, comic book companies were struggling to stay afloat after a rough five years of censorship, a changing readership, and the invention of television. During an editorial meeting at National…
The Many Hands of Bill Finger SDCC 2025 Panel
Panel description: Before Gotham had shadows, writer Bill Finger cast them. Comics scholar Alex Grand (*Understanding Superhero Comic Books*) moderates a lively conversation with Athena Finger…
Rob Liefeld Biographical Interview Part 2 by Alex Grand
Rob Liefeld returns to the CBH podcast talking about Youngblood hitting its stride, Extreme Studios becomes a hothouse of new series: Brigade, Bloodstrike, and nearly two dozen more, all while he…
S1E115 Don McGregor Career Interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson Part 4
Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Don McGregor on his career in a final fourth of a four parter discussing his work with Dean Mullaney at Eclipse, Ragamuffins, working at DC Comics with…
S1E114 Don McGregor Career Interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson Part 3
Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview comic writer Don McGregor, in a third parter on discussing Black Panther fighting the KKK, antagonism with editorial, Archie Goodwin & Jim Shooter,…
Mark Ditko and Mort Todd Ditkoverse Interview 2025
Ditkoverse publications are here: http://www.igg.me/at/ditkoverse1Alex Grand speaks with Steve Ditko’s nephew, Mark Ditko, and longtime Ditko collaborator Mort Todd about their DitkoVerse publishing…
Will Eisner interview by David Armstrong
David Armstrong interviewed Golden Age great and Graphic Novelist, Will Eisner in 1997 on set at San Diego Comic Con about the early history of comic books, comic strip reprints, his entry into…
S1E118 Jerry Ordway Power Hour Interview by Alex Grand & Filippo Marzo
Alex Grand & Filippo Marzo interview Jerry Ordway for an hour in a co-interview process where the english version is here at Comic Book Historians, and the italian version is at Comics Reporter. …
S1E110 Bob Hall, Comic Artist, Writer & Actor Interview Part 2 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Bob Hall part 2, from his early days as a comic reader, his University education in Theatre, his turned in first work for Charlton Comics, studying at…
Craig Yoe Biographical Interview by Alex Grand
Craig Yoe’s biographical interview highlights his creative journey through personal struggles and reinvention, who transforms adversity into creativity while remaining true to his innovative spirit.…
S1E109 Bob Hall, Comic Artist, Writer & Actor Interview Part 1 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Bob Hall, from his early days as a comic reader, his University education in Theatre, his turned in first work for Charlton Comics, studying at the John…
Frank Frazetta Phone Interview by Steve Ringgenberg
In today's special episode, Alex Grand and Bill Field delve into a fascinating phone conversation from August 27, 1994, between comic book historian and writer, Steve Ringgenberg and the legendary…
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