1978: A Hard Year for Adult Storytelling in Graphic Novels & Film
1978: A Hard Year for Adult Storytelling in Graphic Novels & Film
1978: A Hard Year for Adult Storytelling in Graphic Novels & Film
Alex Grand and guest co-host Larry King discuss the attempts at adult story telling in the comic industry in the year 1978. The urge for the industry to start to shift toward graphic novels and serious filmmaking is discussed with A Contract with God, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's Silver Surfer, Don McGregor and Gulacy's Sabre, the Richard Donner Superman 1, the 1984 Warren Magazine, and the made for TV marvel productions like Dr. Strange and Spider-Man. There is also a highlight on adult consequences in the comic industry with the 1978 DC Implosion. Edited & Produced by Alex Grand. Music - Standard License. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians
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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 Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts such as Bill Field, David Armstrong, N. Scott Robinson, Ph.D. and 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/2PlsODNSeries directed & edited by Alex GrandAll episodes ©Comic Book Historians LLC.Join Podchaser to...
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