Alex Grand &amp; Jim Shooter fill in the gaps not discussed from his career spanning biographical interview with Alex Grand &amp; Jim Thompson.  Shooter starts off on licensing deals with why the movie Star Wars saved Marvel whereas the Superman film didn't, licensed products like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starriors, Crystarr &amp; Raiders of the Lost Ark, Battlestar Galactica, Godzilla &amp; Shogun Warriors, Micronauts, ROM , GI JOE, pushing HASBRO to make female GIJOE's, Marv...

As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host &amp; series producer Alex Grand, author of the best seller, Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts Bill Field, David Armstrong, N. Scott Robinson, Ph.D., 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, produced &amp; edited by Alex GrandAll episodes ©Comic Book Historians LLC.