The Secret History of Marvel Comics? Authors reveal it here! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews

Today's Guests: Blake Bell and Michael Vassallo, co-authors of The Secret History of Marvel Comics.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Blake Bell and Michael Vassallo, co-authors of The Secret History of Marvel Comics, by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of poorly compensated, rapidly disappearing World War II-era writers and artists hoping against hope that a court will decide on copyright claims in their favor before they—oops, too late … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Everybody’s got their secrets.

Why, in 1976, this one time, in band camp, I...

You get the point.

So why would it be that hard to imagine that a gigantic publishing house might have a few skeletons in its closet?

That’s the allure of The Secret History of Marvel Comics, a big new book by Blake Bell, author of Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner & The Birth of Marvel Comics and Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko and Michael Vasallo, an expert on Marvel Comics from the 1930s to the 1950s.
MICHAEL VASSALLO podcast excerpt: "I think we ended up pioneering the (Marvel Comics founder) Martin Goodman history. Very little has been published, researched, and written about him. We had access to every comics history book ever written. What we found on Martin Goodman ended up being incorrect... Every single statement we make is sourced."
You can LISTEN to this interview with BLAKE BELL and MICHAEL VASSALLO, co-authors of THE SECRET HISTORY OF MARVEL COMICS, by clicking the audio player above!

Secret History delves into the business practices and trickery that established and grew the Hydra-headed publishing empire of the late Martin Goodman, the tight fisted, often unpleasant gentleman responsible, nonetheless, for giving the world his talented and far more charming nephew, Stanley Lieber.

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