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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 Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians. Read Alex Grand's Understanding Superhero Comic Books published by McFarland & Company here at: https://a.co/d/2PlsODN Series directed, produced & edited by Alex Grand All episodes ©Comic Book Historians LLC.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAs featured on, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host & series producer Alex Grand, author of the best seller, Understanding Superhero Comic Books
Recent episodes include "Joshua Sky Biographical Interview" (1 September 2026, 89 minutes), "Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 6 of 6 by Alex Grand" (3 August 2026, 103 minutes), and "Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 5 of 6 by Alex Grand" (1 July 2026, 94 minutes).
Comic Book Historians publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 74 minutes across 153 episodes.
Booking probability for Comic Book Historians is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Comic Book Historians requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Comic Book Historians's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Comic Book Historians are News, Magazine & Book Publishing. Comic Book Historians has an arts audience and around 18,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Comic Book Historians is an arts podcast with 153 episodes published.
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Comic Book Historians
Joshua Sky, the Masters of the Universe mini-comic writer, joins Comic Book Historians to share growing up on Maui in the 1990s, discovering comics through polybag packs and Marvel trading cards, and finding community...
Episode #113
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...
Episode #112
Alex Grand & Jim Shooter fill in the gaps not discussed from his career spanning biographical interview with Alex Grand & Jim Thompson. Shooter starts off contrasting both Stan Lee & Jack Kirby both of whom he worked...
Comic Book Historians
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 Comics, knowing Otto...
Episode #111
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 into Marvel's sale...
Episode #110
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...
Comic Book Historians
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, his blue collar...
Episode #109
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 the Marvel Method in...
Episode #113
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 of Superheroes...
Comic Book Historians
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 in the mid 1930s with...
Comic Book Historians
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 Timely/Marvel Comics' first...
Comic Book Historians
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 Periodical...
Comic Book Historians
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 (Bill’s granddaughter and...
Comic Book Historians
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 mentors rising talents...
Episode #115
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 Nathaniel Dusk...
Episode #114
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, the personal issues he...
Comic Book Historians
Ditkoverse publications are here: http://www.igg.me/at/ditkoverse1 Alex Grand speaks with Steve Ditko’s nephew, Mark Ditko, and longtime Ditko collaborator Mort Todd about their DitkoVerse publishing venture, a project...
Comic Book Historians
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 comics, WOW What A...
Episode #118
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. Jerry is asked about his...
Episode #110
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 the John Buscema Comic...
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