Comic Book Historians
Hosted by Alex Grand and David Armstrong and Jim Thompson · Presented by Alex Grand
4.7from 87 ratings
- 155
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 87
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Comic Book Historians
As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host & series producer Alex Grand, author of the best seller, Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts Bill Field, David Armstrong, N. Scott Robinson, Ph.D., Jim Thompson) and guests engage in a Journalistic Comic Book Historical discussion between professionals, historians and scholars in determining what happened and when in comics, from strips and pulps to the platinum age comic book, through golden, silver, bronze and then toward modern Support us at https://www.patreon.com/comicbookhistorians. Read Alex Grand's Understanding Superhero Comic Books published by McFarland & Company here at: https://a.co/d/2PlsODN Series directed, produced & edited by Alex Grand All episodes ©Comic Book Historians LLC.
- Publisher
- Presented by Alex Grand
- Category
- arts · arts · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Sept 2017
- Latest episode
- 2 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 155 episodes have a transcript.
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sy Barry & Ric Estrada interview by David Armstrong
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Don McGregor on David Anthony Kraft by Alex Grand
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Joshua Sky Biographical Interview
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Sy Barry & Ric Estrada interview by David Armstrong
Published 2 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Always serious. Yeah, always serious stuff. I did Rex the Wonder Dog for DC. I flipped back and forth doing some pencil work, pencil inks and some inks. Some of the stories I did with Johnny Peril, inked some of Superman and Batman, pencil inked my own... My romance books, that I did for a few years. […]
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- Sy Barry
- Ric Estrada
- Don McGregor
- Joshua Sky
- John Broome
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 67 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 20 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100
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- 66
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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Alex Grand and David Armstrong and Jim Thompson host the show. Published by Presented by Alex Grand.
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