Roy Thomas Power Hour Marvel Age Interview 2020 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson | Comic Book Historians

My book, Understanding Superhero Comic Books available at https://a.co/d/8ZSTMh8 & https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/underst.... Roy William Thomas Jr. is an American comic book writer and editor, who was Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. Alex Grand and Jim Thompson join former Marvel writer and second Editor-In-Chief of the Marvel Age after Stan Lee about his origins circa 1965-1974. Roy discusses how he left his job as a history teacher to move to New York working at DC Comics with Mort Weisinger, leaving DC for Marvel's Stan Lee, applying his English degree to the Marvel Method, meeting Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko, bringing the pulps like Conan to comics, his political leanings from early 1970s Tom Wolfe to Rolling Stone Magazine, the Rutland Parade and the first cosplay parties at Tom Fagan's house, and his nude scenes in both National Lampoon magazine and Crazy in the context of the post-sexual revolution. 🎬 Edited & Produced by Alex Grand, Thumbnail Artwork, CBH Podcast ©2021 Comic Book Historians. Images used in artwork ©Their Respective Copyright holders. Roy Thomas Marvel Age Interview 2020 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson 📜 Video chapters 00:00 Welcoming Roy Thomas 00:28 Left DC’s Mort Weisinger for Marvel's Stan Lee? 06:26 Applying English literature to the Marvel Avengers 10:23 Got any resistance for doing this? 12:22 Importation of the pulps and comics to readers? 16:37 Why Conan The Barbarian was popular? 17:34 Influence of pop culture on Hulk 142, 147 22:48 Robin Green, Tom Wolfe, Rolling Stone 25:11 First cosplay parties at Tom Fagan's house 27:58 Late 60s, a fertile period for you 29:31 Giant-Size Invaders, Human Torch 34:13 Avengers, All-Star Squadron 36:13 Jim's favorite Marvel characters 37:45 Expand Marvel Universe with Sci-fi | Julius Schwartz 40:08 Stan Lee and Jack Kirby made the Marvel Universe 42:21 Meeting Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko 47:08 Wrapping up #RoyThomas #MarvelEditorInChief #ComicBookHistorians #MortWeisinger #StanLee #MarvelComics #MarvelUniverse #Hulk #AllStarSquadron #ComicHistorian #CBHInterviews #CBHPodcast #CBH 🤔 Hope you enjoyed this video! 👍 If you enjoy this video, please like and share it. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more updates. 🚫 Don't click this link 🔗 https://bit.ly/3iRIaxx ⚡️ Swim into our playlists ⚡️ 🎶 CBH Interview Series 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-InterviewSeries 🎶 CBH Docuseries by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Docuseries 🎶 History of DC Comics Video Series by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/3CrGqnV 🎶 Origin of Marvel Comics Video Series by Alex Grand 🔗 https://bit.ly/3yx4gvV 🎶 CBH Videos in Order of Episode Number 🔗 https://bit.ly/3lBl29H 🎶 Comic Book Flip Thru 🔗 https://bit.ly/3xz8QIO 🎶 Historic Footage 🔗 https://bit.ly/3AiukLR 🎶 CBH Motion Comics 🔗 https://bit.ly/3yvHMLX 🎶 CBH Panel Series 🔗 https://bit.ly/3s36voy 🎶 Comic Book Historians Playlists 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Playlists ⚡️ Our Socials ⚡️ ✅ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Comicbookh... ✅ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookhistorians ✅ Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/comichistorians 🎙 Audio Podcasts 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.buzzsprout.com 🌐 Website 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.com/ ✊ You want to support our project? We'd be happy for your support on Patreon. ⚡️ Check us out on Patreon 🔗 https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians 󰛝 An extra special thank-you to all my kind Patreon supporters. 🙏 Thanks for watching