Here’s a recent YouTube interview filmed at the 2015 Florida Supercon with Supercon Mike where Jim talks about his past and some comic book industry history. He tells the story of the acquisition of the Gold Key characters for VALIANT, the early days of the direct market, the creation of GI Joe, Secret Wars and other stuff. -JayJay
Find out more information about Florida Supercon at www.floridasupercon.com
JediJones
Thanks for posting. I’ve been looking for more Jim Shooter interviews on YouTube and elsewhere and was surprised to find a lot of great, lengthy and recent interviews out there. Not only does Jim write a great blog post but he also does a great live interview and knows how to tell good stories, naturally. I’ll provide some links here of ones I highly recommend to anyone who’s enjoyed Jim’s blog:
Lengthy sit-down video interview by ValiantFans.com, over 2 hours long in multiple parts, including Jim getting an enviable award and gift at the end, from June 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDbyWY1k6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTQLtExZpAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_iDLFUPEzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yA-aDhAlLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dobjtx1yPmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93k8OzUlZmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8u9ITSQPBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5eaR-g6SA
Secret Wars and Marvel publishing panels including Jim from the aforementioned 2015 Florida Supercon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41PglfVk0bA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiFfl4Sf5v8
Another Secret Wars panel from May 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGq3lcxrpw
Spider-Man-focused podcast interview, over 45 minutes long, from November 2015:
http://www.spidermancrawlspace.com/2015/11/04/podcast-394-jim-shooter-interview/
And a series of shorter interviews with fans and blogs at various conventions:
Nov. 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohu3ZilEFkE
Jan. 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlJ5YYdfiMU
May 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2upS8RgkI
Oct. 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSStVMiS-Y0
May 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3eplZq_3I
Sep. 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qto0T5bNfVU
Ken
Also: as others have said, it’s wonderful that the blog is back!
Ken
This is really great, interesting stuff. And Jim speaks so well off the top of his head about things that happened ages ago.