Episode 1237 Talkback: Talking Marvel in the 60's and 70's with author Pierre Comtois
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TwoMorrows Publishing has put out some great books on comics and comics history. Author Pierre Comtois joins us to talk about his books on Marvel in the 60's and 70's. (1:00:35)
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Pierre V. Comtois is a newspaper reporter writing from Lowell, MA who
has been editing and publishing Fungi, the Magazine of Fantasy and
Weird Fiction intermittently since 1984. Comtois’ latest book, Marvel
Comics in the 1970s: An Issue by Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture
Phenomenon, was published in 2011 by Twomorrows Pubs. An earlier
volume, Marvel Comics in the 1960s, appeared in 2009. In addition,
Comtois has contributed fiction to many other small press magazines
over the years including Haunts, The Horror Show, Thrilling Tales, and
e magazine Planetary Stories. Comtois’ fiction has also appeared in
various magazines for Cryptic Publications and Rainfall Books as well
as such collections as Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak: Supernatural Sleuth,
Eldritch Blue, and various Chaosium Books anthologies. The author has
also written a number of books including novels such as Strange
Company and Sometimes a Warm Rain Falls; non-fiction such as Our
Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor; and short story collections
such as The Way the Future Was, The Portable Pierre V. Comtois, and
the forthcoming Autumnal Tales from Mythos Books. Comtois has also
found the time to contribute non-fiction articles to such magazines as
World War II, America’s Civil War, Wild West, and Military History,
many of which were collected last year in Real Heroes, Real Battles, a
book published by Sons of Liberty Press. Also from Sons of Liberty is
River Muse: Stories of Lowell and the Merrimack Valley, to which
Comtois has contributed a personal recollection entitled “I Was a
Teenaged Bibliophile.” For more information about the author, visit
pierrevcomtois.com
Marvel Comics in the 1960's
and Marvel Comics in the 1970's.
he book sounds like a love letter from a fanboy to the comics he loved as a boy. That makes me want to read it even more. Doesn't sound like a dry academic tome.
AWESOME.
;)
That was great fun. Loved the enthusiasm.
That was this episode, right? I'm listening to a great big bunch of them lately and I might be confused.
And I can vouch for the existence of the Marvel-Con in the 1970's. The first major convention I attended as a kid in NYC was Marvel-Con '76!
Here's the cover and back cover of the 1976 48-page, digest-sized program, fwiw. I'll post some of the interior pages, too, over in the "Silver and Bronze Age Thread" for those who are interested.