Tom Defalco Biographical Interview 2019 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson | ComicBook Historians

My book, Understanding Superhero Comic Books available at https://a.co/d/8ZSTMh8 & https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/un.... Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview former Marvel Editor in Chief, Tom DeFalco from his early days reading comics, his comic strip work in college, his meetings with John Goldwater, Louis Silberkleit working at Archie Comics, creating the Archie Digests in 1973, his work at DC with Nelson Bridwell including Jimmy Olsen, Superman Family, Starfire, his initial meetings with Denny O'Neil, Marvel Two-In-One at Marvel, Avengers and creating Dazzler with John Romita Jr, his contributions to GI Joe, Transformers, Marvel Two In One Thing w/ Sandman, Peter-Porker/Spider-Ham, Machine Man w/ Herb Trimpe and Barry Windsor-Smith, writing Amazing Spider-Man with artist Ron Frenz, the Mighty Thor, working under Jim Shooter as Marvel as Editor-in-Chief, his replacement by Tom DeFalco, and the sale of Marvel to Revlon by New World, & Marvel going public, his run on the Fantastic Four with artist Paul Ryan, the original vision for the Spider-Man Clone Saga, the Marvel bankruptcy of the mid 1990s, the Clone Saga ending that led to his co-creation of the Amazing Spider-Girl, working with Pat Oliffe, the creation of the MC2 timeline, and his post Marvel work, and returning the Archie. 🎬 Edited & Produced by Alex Grand, ©2021 Comic Book Historians #TomDeFalco #AmazingSpiderMan #MachineMan #TomDeFalcoInterview #MarvelComics #ComicBooks #ComicHistorian #ComicBookHistorians #CBHInterviews #CBHPodcast #CBH Sound FX - Standard License. Images used in artwork ©Their Respective Copyright holders. Images used for academic purposes only. Tom Defalco Biographical Interview 2019 📜 Video chapters 00:00:00 Welcoming Tom Defalco 00:00:25 Family background 00:02:00 Early reading comics 00:04:06 Walt Kelly - Pogo Possum | Jimmy Olsen 00:06:40 Mort Weisinger - good editor? 00:08:07 Education 00:10:30 Comic strip work in college 00:11:28 Writing short stories 00:12:15 Getting started at Archie 00:14:00 John Goldwater, Louis Silberkleit, Victor Gorelick 00:16:18 Reading Archie as a kid, Bob Boiling 00:18:42 Samm Schwartz 00:19:56 How long in Archie Comics | Charlton Comics 00:22:13 Digest Comics 00:24:56 Archie to DC | Joe Orlando, Paul Levitz, Denny O’Neil, E. Nelson Bridwell 00:32:03 You brought Archie’s sensibility to Jimmy Olsen? 00:32:35 E. Nelson Bridwell 00:34:02 Editor and Writer duties 00:34:41 Kirby aspect of Jimmy Olsen 00:35:52 DC to Marvel | DC Implosion 00:38:23 Marvel Two-In-One, Avengers 00:39:47 Jim Shooter 00:41:22 Working with Steve Ditko on Machine Man 00:45:37 John Romita era was almost like an Archie comic? 00:46:56 Launching Dazzler #1 ~1981 00:49:33 Dazzler in X-Men 130 ~980 00:52:10 G.I. Joe | Larry Hama 00:54:12 Transformers, Hasbro, Starriors 00:57:39 Editing Spiderman, Denny O’Neil 00:59:13 Ghost Rider, Spiderman, What If?, Micronauts 01:00:34 The Thing & Sandman drinking a beer together 01:03:28 Editing Fantastic Four, John Byrne 01:05:31 Peter Parker Spider-Ham | Larry Hama, Mark Armstrong 01:09:30 Jim Galton, Joe Walsh - Curtis Circulation, Steve Skeates 01:13:05 Spider-Ham in that Spiderverse animated movie. 01:14:22 Machine Man limited series ~1984-85 | Herb Trimpe, Barry Smith 01:18:57 Amazing Spider-Ham, Spiderman | Danny Fingeroth, Ron Frenz 01:24:09 Ron Frenz 01:26:02 Frenz Spider-Man like Ditko 01:27:49 Creating characters with Ron Frenz 01:30:32 Shooter removed? Becoming editor-in-chief? 01:34:29 Leaving Spider-Man for Thor, Jim Owsley ~1987 01:39:13 Thunderstrike 01:41:30 Why were you chosen as editor-in-chief? 01:45:07 Editor-in-chief during these corporate events? 01:47:50 What’s your take on the Image revolution of ’92? 01:52:52 Fantastic Four, Paul Ryan ~1991 01:57:28 Alicia, it turns out she was a Skrull | Soap Opera 01:59:48 Fantastic Four #358 | Mixture of Kirby and Stan 02:05:19 Fantastic Four #400 02:06:49 Resigned as editor-in-chief in 1994? 02:12:59 Spider-Man Clone Saga, Danny Fingeroth 02:19:06 Spider-Girl series, What If 02:24:57 Pat Olliffe 02:30:22 Any more May Parker stories? 02:31:02 Superman Beyond One-Shot for DC comics ~2001 02:31:48 Dorling Kindersley for Marvel character guides 02:33:41 Riverdale-Archie #610 ~2010 02:35:42 Reggie and Me, Sandy Jarrell 02:37:12 1996 the death of old Marvel? | Mark Gruenwald 02:40:23 Eternalized character into merchandising formats 02:42:47 Wrapping Up 👍 Please like and share it. 👉 Subscribe Us 🔗 https://bit.ly/3iRIaxx ⚡️ Socials ⚡️ ✅ Facebook:   / comicbookhistorians   ✅ Instagram:   / comicbookhistorians   ✅ Twitter:   / comichistorians   🎙 Audio Podcasts 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.buzzsprou... 🌐 Website 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.com/   / comicbookhistorians