Here is another lost and forgotten interview from the pages of an obscure 1980s fanzine, this one with Marvel’s Editor in chief Jim Shooter. I seem to recall that Jim was giving an awful lot of interviews at around this time, possibly in connection with Marvel’s 20th Anniversary. Regardless, it’s interesting from a modern day perspective to hear his plans and his point of view from back then, and see how they influenced the company that Marvel would become throughout the decade. The interview was conducted by David Singer, who would attempt to follow in Shooter’s footsteps by launching Deluxe and Lodestone Comics, two Direct Market publishers in he early 1980s.
The Tom Brevoort Experience 
Comic Times #1 was my very first professional interview when I was about 19 years old and the one that taught me to never again do oral interviews. So many facts were incorrect and every “um” and “uh” was transcribed. I sounded like an idiot.
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Speaking as a newspaper reporter, your interviewer did a piss-poor job.
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Nice cover by Vess
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I don’t seem to be able to click to enlarge these images like I usually can, so the interview is almost completely illegible.
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Using Firefox, I can zoom in 160% on the images and read them. You can hold down the control button and use the mouse wheel, or under settings is Zoom.
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I open each in it own tab and enlarge that.
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So Tom, is the other profile and alias these past few years an experiment to gauge reactions or a sincere outlet to show your actual disgust without understandably compromising your job?
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Excuse me, what?
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