thanks so much for sharing this interview! I worked for Chuck back in 2001 and still regret leaving, I learned much in the short time I was there!

Wow. I still have the personal reply letter Shooter sent me when as a child I wrote him being upset that Marvel joined DC in raising cover prices to a whole dollar. I still remember the excitement of getting the official Marvel envelope with Spiderman on it in the mail. I also remember being amazed that Shooter took the time to write me a reply letter.

I'm in my 60's and have been collecting since 1970. Great to see two pros "Who were there" unlike the kids(30's) who were not and know everything!

Thank you for this. Shooter is one of the best in the in the business.

Chuck has some of the industry’s best BTS stories. Can’t wait to hear the rest of he and Shooter’s talk.

Jim shooter is a legend. 😀👍

This inside baseball for the comics industry is fascinating. Thanks to Chuck and Jim for sharing!

Googled this guy while watching this. Wow, what a career!!!

Old men talking about comics. Love it!

I love hearing the Jim Shooter parts.

My favorite era of comics.. Thanks for everything, Jim! You are a legend.

Ended on a cliffhanger lol. This is excellent to watch and is important that it is being documented for historical reasons. Two knowledgeable people that (as they mentioned) were viewing the early direct market days from completely different perspectives is very interesting.

I fell in love with comics in the 70s as a small child but that love was solidified in the 80s with Secret Wars and Crisis on Infinite Earths. Marvel in the 1980s was nothing short of awesome and Jim Shooter had a big hand in that. Also, with the introduction of the Valiant Universe in the 90s, Jim Shooter hepled in the creation of even more great characters.

Awesome conversation. This needs to be a regular thing, Chuck talking with comic industry legends.

We need more history lessons from Chuck! And Jim too!

I can't wait for the rest of this. This is FASCINATING.

Amazing to hear what bad shape the industry was in but also how it got turned around. I started collecting comics around '79 and had no idea. By '82 there were more conventions popping up around the larger cities in the US that seemed fairly well attended as they kept doing them with more special guests every year. Nothing like today but for then the shows were pretty big. Usually, some news channel would be at them shooting a segment.

I would love more videos like this. We, the younger generation, should learn the history of our hobby. Thank you very much!

The Beyonder is Jim Shooters avatar. 😇

Thank you for doing this interview.

Super fascinating behind the scenes info!

Hey Chuck/Jim, Finished the first Part and it is fascinating to listen to both of your stories, I really chuckled at the comic collector loyalty. I remember travelling to Forbidden Planet in Glasgow for the Launch of The Killing Joke in 1986 and the queues were large before opening time, just for that one book. If I remember right due to freight times back then, there was a first printing done by Titan Distributers for the UK market and a lot of the others were printed in Canada. Looking forward to the rest of the parts and thank-you both :) Greetings from Scotland :)

Many of the Dealers were comicbook collectors best example was the first Comicon in New York in 1964. Fat Phil had a dark side keeping comics out of some dealers to control his power. This is why Long Island had problems opening shops.

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Great stuff!

Hi Jim. Hi Chuck. I was born in 1951. Loved the Silver Age. But tell me, truthfully, what did you think of John Forte's art. He was more than fine on the Tales of the Bizzaro World series... But otherwise?

Amazing how much Roy Thomas and others at Marvel trashed Kirby's FOURTH WORLD and then cite how STAR WARS saved Marvel. Star Wars directly copies New Gods to such a degree it's amazing! Mark Moonrider, The Source, Darkseid, the hero being conflicted because his Dad is the villain and he's raised by a white bearded mentor figure in a robe.. it goes on and on!

Two older gentlemen discussing comic history, from an insider point of view…

What if he were to write a one shot doom patrol or a silver surfer?

When Chuck talks about Star Wars and million-selling, he also mentions another comic too, but I can't really hear it clearly... was it "John-Paul"?