David Armstrong interviewed Platinum and Golden Age great, Fred Guardineer in 1998 on set at San Diego Comic Con about his entry into comic books in the 1930s, working with Street and Smith pulps, getting into the comic book business with Harry Chesler and Vincent Sullivan under Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, and the company shake up with Harry Donenfeld and Jack Liebowitz taking control of Detective Comics, his work in Action Comics creating Zatara, freelancing with other companies like Quality Comics, and lessons he learned about the power of the comic book medium.

Interview conducted, recorded and copyrighted to David Armstrong.
Remastered, edited, timestamped and postproduction by Alex Grand.

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📜 Chapters
00:00 Background
00:30 Family reaction to profession?
01:19 Street and Smith pulps
01:31 Getting into comic book business | Harry Chesler
03:12 Getting into DC | Vin Sullivan, Donenfeld
04:44 Action Comics
05:58 Freelancing any other companies at that time?
06:18 Continuity in comic stories
07:14 Quality Comics
07:36 Lessons you learned from friendships
07:52 Were comics expected to last?
08:33 Power of comic book medium
09:10 Outro

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