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Jim Shooter Biographical Interview Part 1 of 6 by Alex Grand & Jim Thompson
Episode 113
Thursday, 1 January, 2026

Alex Grand and co-host Jim Thompson interview Jim Shooter in a career spanning biography. Travel thru his youth as Mort Weisinger's 14- year-old apprentice created the rogue's gallery of the Legion of Superheroes, Princess Projectra, #KarateKid, Ferro Lad's death & intended race, drew layouts with his scripts for DC artists Gil Kane, Wally Wood, and Neal Adams, Captain Action teaching him Toy-Comics synergy, DC’s first drug addiction and rehab comic story, Parasite for Superman, wrote the first Superman-Flash race, Mort Weisinger’s abusive behavior, his short 1969 stay at Marvel Comics, his odd run-ins at the YMCA presented in Hulk Magazine 23 1980, working for an ad agency in the early 1970s, worked at DC Comics again under Julius Schwartz. Edited & Produced by Alex Grand. #DCComics #Weisinger #Schwartz #JimShooter© 2021 Comic Book HistoriansSupport the show