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Robert "Bob" Hall is an American comics artist and writer as well as a playwright and theatre director. He is the co-creator of the West Coast Avengers for Marvel Comics and has worked on such series as "Armed and Dangerous" and Shadowman, which he both drew and wrote for Valiant Comics.
Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Bob Hall, from his early days as a comic reader, his University education in Theatre, his turned in first work for Charlton Comics, studying at the John Buscema Comic Art School, getting into Marvel under editor Archie Goodwin, then under new editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, the Yellowjacket Wasp story, Squadron Supreme with Mark Gruenwald, co-creating West Coast Avengers, Emperor Doom, Valiant Comics, Future Comics, his Joker graphic series for DC, and his modern theatre work.
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Bob Hall Biographical Interview by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
📜 Video chapters
00:00:00 Welcome Bob Hall
00:00:32 Family background
00:01:50 Early reading
00:05:01 Sunday school teacher
00:08:32 College theater & horror movies
00:11:47 University of Iowa, Nicholas Meyer
00:13:02 Masters in University of Nebraska-Lincoln
00:16:02 Nicholas Meyer
00:17:57 Moving to New York
00:19:14 Breaking into comics
00:24:35 Worked for Charlton Comics
00:27:09 John Buscema Comic Art School, Job at Marvel
00:30:03 Writing Dracula play, George Street Playhouse, David Richmond
00:37:08 Dark Shadows
00:38:46 Dracula play recording
00:42:06 Our Love Story no.36 cover 1974
00:43:36 Fighting Marines 132 cover 1976
00:44:19 Working at Marvel | Bill Mantlo
00:47:26 Assigned to group book, Ghostrider
00:51:16 Continue John Buscema style?
00:54:53 Fantastic Four Annual 12, 1977
00:56:30 John Buscema & Tom Palmer
00:59:11 Don Perlin
00:59:45 Champions to Supervillain team up
01:01:01 Editor-in-chief Jim Shooter
01:04:50 Shooter made me an editor
01:09:37 Marvel Team-Up 74, Saturday Night Live Marvel Comic
01:12:22 NBC Symbol
01:15:12 Hercules 44, 1978, Frank Giacoia, John Byrne
01:17:41 Defenders 61, Al Milgrom
01:19:39 Gene Colan | Daredevil
01:21:14 Frank Robbins
01:22:33 Editing Feedback?
01:23:37 Working on Human Fly, Tarzan
01:26:51 Frank Giacoia, Bob Lubbers, Lee Elias
01:30:36 Break from comics
01:31:48 Jim Shooter about Hank Pym Wasp panel
01:41:32 Hank Pym abuse blowback?
01:43:28 Emperor Doom | Leonard Pitt
01:45:36 Drawing Speed Demon - Squadron
01:47:37 1981: Weird War Tales | John Celardo, Len Wein
01:53:58 West Coast Avengers - Roger Stern, 1984
01:56:06 Inking my work
01:56:56 Favorite inkers | Joe Sinnott, Vince Colletta
02:01:10 Squadron Supreme with Mark Gruenwald
02:11:27 Emperor Doom inking by Keith Williams 1987
02:12:50 Jim Shooter to Tom Defalco
02:17:56 Carl Potts on Jim Shooter
02:21:40 Artistic Repertory Theater, 1987
02:23:25 Comics that never got printed
02:24:06 Adaptation of Captain America movie
02:25:35 Less work from Marvel
02:26:50 Bad parting with Marvel, Bob Harris
02:30:01 Valiant Comics with Jim Shooter, Bob Layton, Don Perlin
02:44:33 Armed and Dangerous | Drug bust outside Lincoln
02:55:13 DC comics | Batman: I, Joker
02:59:30 Future Comics, Bob Layton
03:03:11 Shooter forced out of Valiant comics
03:05:19 Kiss, Gene Simmons
03:07:06 Carnival of Contagion, Coronavirus for Kids | [ Ссылка ]
03:09:53 The Ghost Haunted Hallways, Alumni Magazine
03:11:07 Teaching Comics
03:12:57 Flatwater Shakespeare, Shakespeare Festival
03:15:34 Abstract paints
03:17:46 Shakespeare adaptations
03:19:02 Favorite Shakespeare experiences
03:24:23 Wrapping up
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