Jim Shooter worked for years with Lee, Kirby, and Ditko. Shooter knows better than anyone who created what and how much their involvement was in those creations. Lee did come up with most of the ideas, characters, and plots in the early days of Marvel. Kirby, Ditko, and others helped make those ideas, characters, and plots to become fully realized, and added their own special touches to flesh out anything Lee might've overlooked. Lee has always given proper credits to the artists who've helped him. That contract was made the way it was to simplify payouts to one individual and to help maintain a synonymous popularity that had grown with Lee over the years at Marvel. It was also done so Lee wouldn't leave and go to DC because they wanted to make Chip Goodman the publisher. Now, is it dirty business? Sure, but as you know, Kirby signed his rights away in 1968, willingly, to Martin Goodman so Goodman could sell the company to what would become Cadence Industries. If Kirby didn't want his rights taken from him, he should've spoken up then and refused to go along.

Character is destiny.

It took me two days to listen, but I'm glad I did. And I'll get to the other long video soon, too. After listening to this interview, I firmly believe Jim Shooter was railroaded and unjustly fired because he did the right thing every time and that irked the upper management and the artists who didn't think they needed to be corralled into making something entertaining and sensible. If Shooter was Editor-In-Chief at Marvel today, the product would be superior on every conceivable level. Wherever Jim Shooter is today, I hope he's happy, healthy, and enjoying his life.

Hitting Captions in your settings is a must on this one.

Master

I too scrounged returnable bottles for comic book money, but in the early 1970s

Solid.

NEW YORK RULES. They Knew and they Grew. But the Geeks and the Internet ruined much. Losers. But these were men. Make a buck and take a professional responsibility for quality. The only trade that ever needed to be maintained. In the 90s we started calling the world a gift shop as people were traveling and vacationing more. Now we can call it a mental ward. Complete with rubber shoes and flip flops like in a hospital. "Im so slack Yo." Yah ? Great. Take a look. Tell me Im lying. Lol

The days when making a buck wasn't something you were to be ashamed of but instead proud of. Unlike the stupid loser culture of the internet that whines today. Did I say that?

Love you John. You are missed Sir.

Always a gentleman and careful with controversy when others come up in conversation. Again. A real Gent. A PROFESSIONAL. A different Era before the Rot.

If Pat Robertson was mad about it, you know it was good. God Loves Man Kills was an amazing story.

great

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Hi, Jess! Thank you for your father's Shieldmaster issues! I recently read your Shielddmaster issues! They transported back to the Prize Comics era of the early silver age! I need to get back to NYC to hangout with you again! A great interview. I'm glad your creating these memories working with your dad! Joe is a legend! I just read an issue of Bullseye and it was so fun!

I mean they aren’t wrong. Writers were very liberal and they do mock Christians and we know that Claremont was a perv who put all sorts of sexual stuff in it.

I met Steranko last month, he was wearing the exact same outfit in this video😂. He was a super nice guy, he charged the most of anyone for his autograph ($50) but he made me feel like someone he knew. After he signed a poster I was about to walk away and he pulled me aside and showed me his personal art book that he’s been experimenting with. Lots of little portraits. He knows how to make you feel welcome.

I tend to believe that one of sterankos biggest influences was Milton glaser. Great vid thx 🙏

Cool! I thought I'd heatd all of the Steranko panel bits on youtube, then here you go with some unheard (by me, anyway) stuff. Big cheers to you and your channel, sir! Here's hoping you have some more in the future!!

I had the privilege of meeting Jim Steranko back in April. He was such a nice guy and very patient with my stupid remark of wanting to shake his hand solely because he punched Bob Kane LOL. I kept my comments about his wig to myself, but he is such a great storyteller and historian.

😎 Steranko's description of Jack's method confirms my idea of how story conferences between him and Stan might have gone. Stan made have had the vocal imagery but Jack provided the visual ones that Stan needed to further develop the story. True , Jack didn't write the story and dialogue he only provided the images that created the story and dialogue.

I always loved to hear Steranko talk! Thanks for posting this. Love all your content!

Just wanted to let you know I dig your podcast. Steranko is the best. I love it when people whine about his political affiliations, liberals are the most discriminatory people I know. If you don’t think like them, they hate you.

One of my favorite artists ❤️

KIRBY is king

Lions fans getting hired 1st interview,

Wow! Awesome interview David and sad to say that Festino of Spains comic con translation of 10 years to live actually came true. I believe tge person who got John into comics in 1948 was Nic Zurow?

He's the perfect choice for Peter parker , very comic accurate

You have to keep making motion comics these are simply amazing, way better thsn any Hollywood motion picture😮

Don't forget Sienkiewicz doing Moon Knight. It really was Marvel's peak era. I really liked Classic X-Men as a title, I never realized it was a desperation move. It was really welcome.

Keep this series going, also i have to ask , how do you make these!

Please make more episodes this is amazing

What's with that toothless crackhead sitting next to the interviewer making clown faces all the time? 😂 Also he pisses Neal Adams off every time he opens his mouth. That's hilarious.

Thank God and YOU for putting together this series of interviews with these lost GIANTS of the comics industry. I started reading and collecting in the midst of what they now call The Silver Age and was hooked on comics until 2014 or so. Thanks for shining light on these dedicated men and women writing, drawing and editing and publishing pages and pages of pages of great printed cinema that kept me entertained for decades. I remember Carmine being a great and unique artist who became a counterpart of Stan Lee at Marvel. He was certainly not the self-promoter that Stan was and worked in relative anonymity in comparison. This interview (and the others I've seen) are pure GOLD for time-capturing the life and character of so many of these great talents that worked in so much obscurity. (I really loved the Marie Severin, John Buscema, Joe Sinnot and Tom Palmer interviews and will be re-watching a lot of them.) Kudos and salutes to whomever had the foresight to sit down and conduct these interviews with these creators who created so much of what is now widely consumed and commercially viable. I can't thank and compliment y'all enough for the great interview questions and agenda. Superb! (I love the fact that he said he drew and drew and drew until he got it all out of his system. What a guy!)

“Animatic”

Another boring atheist

Satanic false jews who were communists aka liberal. That’s Trina’s family

Legendary artist

Great interview 👍 Savage Sword has always been my fav & it's neat to hear John say it's his too. I love his Silver Surfer, the deepest of all the superheroes. I guess not surprising that it didn't register with the US audience, whereas it did in Europe.

Steranko was NOT there when it all happened. He is not telling the truth here. He joined Marvel in the end of 1966. His first work was penciling and inking "finishes" over Kirby layouts in Strange Tales #151 (Dec. 1966). Steve Ditko left Spider Man and Marvel in spring 1966. And all the universe building in the Fantastic Four was already done by the end of 1966. So Steranko was NOT there, when all the characters were created and all the important stories of the 1960s have been written. That is not to say that Stan Lee did nothing. But it is well documented, that Ditko and Kirby were the main storytellers and inventors. Stan Lee did good work for Marvel at the advertisment front and he held the whole company together. But he delegated the invention and storytelling.

I love this interview. I was bit disappointed at the way Jim Thompson attacked him over the artists that left.

His son is an obvious apologist for this evil man, and seems to share some his ego. He doesn’t seem to Mind: The worst is when he won the “Superman drawing contest” and insisted it was not “fixed” because they were the fix. WTF? Weisenger was a mean, backstabbing bully by all employee accounts who loved humiliating and dominating people. Total a-hole. His daughter seems to share this opinion as alluded too in the interview. That’s the one I want to hear.

The way Stan Lee's role was portrayed after this contract definitely changed the narrative. It's important to give credit where credit is due

I became a fan of the Bronze Age. Novick was one of the great Batman artists

If Steve Rude was the regular penciller of a Superman title, I would subscribe.

Stan Lee was idea man but a mediocre writer. I seriously doubt he was super descriptive when coming up with a character. The artists contributed quite a lot in the creation of characters.

This is a fascinating look at a complex moment in comics history. It's important to remember the contributions of all the creators, not just Stan Lee

Dang, I always though Dick Giordano was the best inker for Neal Adams. But after reading the Adams - Palmer X-Men run, I am not so sure.

Just even more confirmation of what a FRAUD Funky Flashman was, great factual video.

Jack Kirby is the mastermind behind the entire Marvel Universe, and Steve Ditko had created his own playground with Spider-Man and Dr Strange. Stan Lee just put words in the word balloons. You can see this e.g. if you look closely at the FF run. After #67 (July 1967) there is a masive downturn in the series, because Jack Kirby decided to bring no new ideas into the series, because he felt betrayed by Stan Lee. All the issues from then on feel uninspired, no new interesting villains, only mindless android robots. That is because Jack Kirby did all the story telling before and Stan only did the words.