<p>Alex Grand, Bill Field, and Jim Thompson celebrate the Holidays and Dawn of the New Year by going over each of their top 5 Christmas Comics of all time. Bill and Jim come up with their theories on why Stan Lee hardly ever wrote a Christmas story, Bill wrestles a gay bear, Alex brings up a yuletide christmas Superman tale that reaks of a prison (g)rape scene, and Jim weeps and mourns... for Starman!? Is the best comic story of all time found in a comic strip or comic book? You decide! Topics range from Strips, to Marvel to DC Comics, to Harvey Kurtzman, Walt Kelly and More! Edited &amp; Produced by Alex Grand.  ©Comic Book Historians, Vault of Horror ©Gaines, Fallin Remix - Standard License. Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians<br/>Podcast and Audio ©℗ 2019 Comic Book Historians</p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians">Support the show</a>

1976: Marvel Bicentennial with Editor clashes and DC Publisher Changes

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.