<p>Alex Grand and Bill Field discuss comic book goings on in 1973, a true year of Comic Book Death and Rebirth as events unfold like Dell Comics, Bill Everett, Syd Shores and Gwen Stacy dies as Jim Starlin, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber create new work and new characters including the cosmic Marvel Death entity. How does the Berkeley Con of 1973 figure into this? The Shadow and Shazam? What about the Son of... Shaytan??? Edited &amp; Produced by Alex Grand.  Music - Standard License. Thanos, Shang-chi, Spider-man, Marvel Spotlight, Fear, Black Panther ©Marvel Comics, Shazam, Superfriends ©DC Comics, Conan ©CPI, Shadow ©Conde Nast CBH Podcast ©Comic Book Historians. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians<br/><br/>Podcast and Audio ©℗ 2019 Comic Book Historians</p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians">Support the show</a>

1960: The Silver Age Takes Shape!! with Alex Grand & Bill Field

As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host &amp; 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&nbsp;Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians.&nbsp;Read Alex Grand's Understanding Superhero Comic Books published by McFarland &amp; Company here at: https://a.co/d/2PlsODNSeries directed &amp; edited by Alex GrandAll episodes ©Comic Book Historians LLC.