The Comic Book Show – 10-30-93 – NJ Public Access TV

Comic Book Show 10-30-93 public access: Philadelphia ComicFest

Philadelphia public access TV program The Comic Book Show (later known as Inside Comix) episode #5: It Came From ComicFest, broadcast 10-30-93. The hosts attend the 1993 Philadelphia ComicFest and talk to creators like Jim Shooter, who discussing being sued by Marvel over a Defiant character’s name. Host Tony DiGerolamo would soon launch his own Jersey Devil comic book (1996), going on to write a number of Simpsons comics (2002 onward). BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn’t seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo – the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads. In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we’re only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.

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today on the comic book show comic fest comic fest demolition man [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome to the comic book show the only TV show about comics your central authority for cartoons comic books and collectibles in comic fest welcome to the big comic fest show I’m your host Tony Mickey Tony’s go hook and this is show number 5 October 30th 1993 let’s get right into the super movie hey super movie is demolition man live verse night yes some clips maniac is imminent request advice

I’m in Phoenix lie down with your hands behind your back what’s this six of you such nice tidy uniform oh I’m so scared what you guys don’t have small calves anymore I mean yeah kids responded with a scornful remark approach and repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice lie down on the ground or else [Music] demolition man for me was a fantastic movie I mean honestly I have not seen a movie that’s good since Cameron’s Terminator 2 I mean Snipes was had the best lines the

funniest jokes that he was still this real bad evil guy and Sylvester Stallone was just so good in this movie so tough hey you just like this but I like Snipes – I think he really stole the movie he was the funniest thing in this movie I think I think Stallone was his typical Greek grim self sort of moping around the movie not really doing anything different than I’ve seen from him Sylvester Stallone I don’t know this fight scenes are always the same the bad guy eats the hell out of them and then at the last

two seconds of the fight he somehow turns around and beats him there was also plots and plot holes in this movie that you could drive a truck through but it’s entertaining enough that you could pretty much ignore them so let’s rate this sucker on the mighty meter the mighty meter rates things from one to five five being mighty good and one being mighty lousy I’m gonna give demolition man four and a half I’ll do it a four and a half – only because they never did explain how the three

seashells work I can’t believe you compared it to Terminator 2 which which on my scale would relate like a nine if you want to talk about holes in the plot watch terminator although I don’t even get into the Terminator argument the whole time-travel thing makes my head explode let’s get into the comics best footage that’s what this show is all about comic best we went to comic fest we interviewed just about everybody there we’ve got great interviews with comic book artists celebrities beautiful women

in tight outfits Kyle for me Kyle from image comics and here it is [Music] all right well we’re here at the wizard booth with pom iottie and Cassata the man the myth the legend that’s right well we got too many people we have to go by last name anchor thank you thank you thank you so what do you guys explain to the fans maybe people who don’t know you guys some of the projects you’ve been working on some pretty important project Jessica Yan in Jack and we’re working on in Jack and also I have working I’m

working on in Jack – and coming in Jack project which comes out in November which is probably in November right I just find the new Batman so actually I designed Azrael who became the new Batman and I did the cover – Batman 500 was it your decision to make as we all the Batman I know they they came to me with the idea for Azrael that the pitch was you do Azrael he becomes the next Batman do you want to do it I said okay you know you knew right from the beginning that Azrael was going to be in the new Batman yeah but about a year and

a half before it actually happened you know I knew about it and had to keep my mouth shut so then you know what’s going to happen – Azrael in the future yes so what happened I’m gonna tell you I’m doing I’m making X for Dark Horse Comics and I want to be working regularly on the title oh yeah monthly plus I’m still doing I just do so long monthly and inker and I have upcoming Thanos book that I’m doing just issue one that’s all they wanted me for what’s the deal with

ninja what’s like his powers he has no powers nin Jack it’s imagined all right imagine taking Bruce Lee Batman and James Bond and smashing them all together you know he’s a magnificent detective and horsey womanizer and just like you know one of the world’s greatest summarized swordsman ninja kind of guys everything he’s great it could be is there any talk of a ninja a crossover so ninja versus Batman something like that no nothing like that would be what we have planned see after it’s great afternoon in Jack 1

& 2 come out like 1 X then then 3 comes out somewhere along the line around 5 I think he actually meets XO Man O’War which is visually so it’s kind of like like Conan and Iron Man and smashed together Tommy Adi and cassada here at Comic Fest let’s go to the other side of fest and see what Nikki’s doing now we’re here with Tony Isabella hi how are you doing real good how are you hey so tell me how did you actually get started into the comic book industry I learned to read

from comic books before I even went to kindergarten and somewhere around sixth or seventh grade I realized that people got paid for writing comic books and couldn’t think of a better way of making a living tell me about Satan six what what does this book about Satan six is about a group of lost souls who aren’t good enough to be in heaven aren’t bad enough to go to hell so they made a deal with the devil to win souls for Satan in order to earn their way into hell it’s an action-comedy book think of it

as Gilligan’s Island in the supernatural just as Gilligan and crew never get off the island Satan 6 and crew never actually win a soul for Satan what was it like working with the infamous Jack Kirby on this project well jack is one of the men that got me into comics his early work for Marvel Comics and Jack has always been one of the most generous men in comics he had written and drawn eight pages of a Satan six story basically handed them off to me and said go with it so I pretty much developed

the series from Jack’s original concept and those eight pages are there any other industry greats that really influenced you to to get into comics oh sure Stan Lee who worked with Jack Kirby on the Marvel stuff Stan and Jack were my biggest influences if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t have gone into the comics field and Stan was my first boss in comics I started at Marvel Comics and along the years I had gotten to work with all of the original Marvel artists except Jack Kirby he was never at Marvel at the same

time I was but thanks to editor Jim salic reform tops I finally got to complete my set as it were and work with Jack that’s it for Tony Isabella and the top space Oh Gumby come on knock it off oh come on Gumby let go Gumby you’re not supposed to do this come on Oh [Music] [Music] available at amazing comics 9:28 Fitzwater in philadelphia hey where do you rate : hobbies the place to race on Arial Road in Pine Hill radio-controlled cars and trucks is just the beginning indoor and outdoor tracks

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available to answer all of your questions mention this comic book show add in first-time customers receive a free issue of Legends of The Dark Knight that’s the comic collection in feasterville for the serious comic book collector [Music] [Music] Carolyn [Music] the most outrageous go for cheating in the universe these ain’t your daddy’s comic books fanboy now we are here with no hombre focal famous right now for prime from Malibu how you doin norm I’m doing pretty good great now tell me about prime what

you’re doing for Malibu what’s this all about it looks great great story I guess prime could best be described as a modern-day captain of marvel or captain the guy that said Shazam yeah Captain Marvel he was a 13 year old kid and instead of having a lightning bolt come down and having a magical origin it’s a pseudo-scientific origin and he was he was one of about 80 or 90 children that were experimented on back in the 60s in a secret government experiment with what they call a wetware

virus which is one of the cons of one of the science fiction concepts that revolve around in the ultraverse and are responsible for a number of different superheroes and villains and when he reached pubescens spontaneously he exploded into prime and as this body comes blowing out of his chest and forms around him past him and off and then and then inside the prime body Kevin is still in there but it’s like his nervous system switches off at a certain point in the transformation and Prime’s kicks

in they share the same memories and the same brain and everything he doesn’t gain the wisdom of Solomon like Billy Batson did when changing the Captain Marvel it’s like a grittier version of Captain Marvel what made you want to get in the comics industry in the first place ah good question before I could read I remember my mother reading Superman a Batman comics to me and of course there was the Superman and Batman TV shows but it was basically that um that’s why I was in the DC instead of Marvel more when I was a kid

• just because Marvel didn’t have a lot of multimedia marketing like DC did at the time are there any other people in the industry that influenced you or that you look up to certainly before that however my dad used to draw a Superman for me when I was really young and that must have had a big influence on me too made me want to draw and maybe its genetic who knows maybe it’s cultural we were a very visual culture but I wanted to draw all along and I wanted to do it as a hobby I wanted to be an astronomer again

and for that Natural Sciences but once I realized that I’d put a lot of effort and and developed a certain amount in in my drawing ability I decided I should make that a career Neal Adams was an influencer Frank Miller was an influence for a while Bernie Wrightson the classics as well I used to have a subscription to American artist magazine when I was in grade school and that influenced me a lot I love doing full-color paintings the classics you know Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo the oppression that’s made

a big impression on me norm breyfogle prime metaphyseal coming out all kinds of great stuff check it out he’s one of the best in the industry today okay I’m over here at the Elfquest booth with Richard and Wendy peeny the two people who are behind the elf quest you can’t you are like the king and queen of elves they’re pinellas before but they’ve never been elves like ours well why don’t you tell everybody out there give us a little background on Elfquest I know you guys have been around probably

15 years ‘lord well 25 words or less what Elfquest is about is we have a group of characters they’re not native to this very primitive world they come here from somewhere else and everybody hates them so the quest of the title at least the original one is their search for a safe place to live and in the process of many many issues that span many years of comics they discover that the safe place is wherever they are because they’ve found their home in themselves and that self well we’re a very evenly divided

team when we created Elfquest back in 1977 it pretty much fell into the pattern that I was the essentially I came up with a skeleton idea for this story and then Richard and I would pull out it I would script it I would draw it I would pencil it I would let her it I would do everything and Richard would edit it and publish it and we learned all of it from the seat of our pants tell us a little bit about some of the upcoming projects for HealthQuest I understand is going to be a movie well the list is almost too numerous to

mention but since you brought up the movie we’ll talk about that first we just recently closed a movie development deal with Edie Pressman the producer of oh goodness the to Conan films Wall Street any number of Oliver Stone films so producing a Judge Dredd film and the crow is going to be released soon well for most of our 15 years it was Wendy and I and we were put out one title and in the beginning we put out one title every four months and it drove fans mad waiting for it and we set that up to bimonthly but just

recently we decided to expand the universe of Elfquest to let other artists and writers work in it because we’ve gotten expressions of interest from people so we now have the original Elfquest title which is called elf quest hidden years which is an ongoing story we spun off something called elf quest new blood which is going to take some of the characters from hidden years and spin them off on their own adventure we have a third title called blood of ten Chiefs which are adaptations of short stories written by various science

fiction and fantasy authors and in December we’ll have a fourth Elfquest title called wave dancers which follows The Adventures of a group that split off right from the beginning and went to live in this sea and it’s we like to call it Little Mermaid on steroids because it’s it’s it’s a very sensuous very very well drawn series about these underwater creatures that’s it from the Elfquest booth let’s go around to it to the fest we’re here at the comic fest this is day four day four day five I

don’t know it’s the last day and I’m very tired let’s go see what Nikki’s doing comics fest 93 is continuing and are you ready for this we have now reached the booth of defiant yes and we are now joined by Jim shooter hi Jim how you doing good Nikki how are you good so tell me about defiance what really is this company all about I’ll define is about the realization of dreams it’s a bunch of people all of them who have been through a lot in their lives but still have that fire in

the belly and want to do it right and so it’s a bunch of people who are old enough to know how to do it and young enough to still be able to do it and we’re really putting it together here in building a universe what do you think defiant has to offer comic book readers and other companies don’t I think that I think that we’re the storytellers I think that you know when I started my last company the business had gone in the direction of just doing collectibles and Holograms and stuff and we started

doing story again because that’s what my oh my training is all my background is and and it was a success and I think that with the same people have gathered again to build this company and we’ve gotten even some more people who I think are the the business’s greatest storytellers guys like Chris Claremont Len ween Dave Cockrum people who who are franchise builders people who are who build universes and build worlds and and love to work in continuity with each other and you know as far as I’m concerned we’re the team

to be we have we have all the the best storytellers in the business are the best creators and the business guys like Allen why and guys like David Lapham and Jan Childress was here I was working on the good guys with us and an artist named gray who won’t let me use his real name but we have some great people and you know I think it’s all coming together what made you want to get started in comics in the first piece well I was 13 years old I needed to make some money in it they wouldn’t give me a job at the

steel mill you know so I said well gee what can I do and I decided I could you know I love comics and maybe I could do a comic book I could sell and I did and then DC Comics bought and I started writing Superman and you know and then learn from experts in the field was taught by Mort Weisinger and Stanley worked my way up through the business until I was editor-in-chief of Marvel and then I started my own company in and now I started this company a little bit controversy that worries applies them

any comments about this lawsuit thing Marvel Comics seems to be real happy to publicize about lately well we’ve we were sued by Marvel they they said that they had a character called plasma which hasn’t seen print yet and they sued us that we were infringing on their name in fact we got the verdict last week and the verdict is we win Marvel was slammed down on every point the judge found in our favor on every single point and when he was all done reading his verdict he he said to their lawyer haven’t we had

about enough of this I said yes so as far as I’m concerned you know goodness and virtue triumphs again well that’s if we’re defiant their victorious come check this stuff out Jim shooter Nicky comic fest 93 hi from the comic fest and the comic book show we’ll be right back the comic book show is sponsored in part by master shirts sports cards and comic books in the Frankfort Health Family Fun Center in Philadelphia mentioned tcbs and receive 20% off purchases of $10 or more call

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this is the original Batmobile it was salvaged from a junkyard and all refurbished you can see some of the cool things they have in the car that’s the turn button that used to turn the car completely around smokebomb of course the anti-theft device which I believe was the ejection seat some other buttons here I got like a Speed Racer thing going on the steering wheel which is kind of cool see the horn works nope Batman’s gotta fix his horn EMG lights nail spread oil squirt oh and we even got like a cassette radio in here

so Batman could listen to some tunes what do you got on your side of the car Nick over on Robin side of the car we have the bat screen missing bat phone a really cool radar scope looks like a lr left right turn signal typing it kinda looks like an ashtray a hazard light and a really cool mat down here with the fluorescent orange bat it’s really cool and you can see in the back that Batman had Kenwood speakers so Batman really know how to listen to some tunes if he wanted to let’s swing around the back

you sure that neat rocket part and I’ll see if I can get the thing to ignite I don’t think there’s any gas in this thing that’s it for the Batmobile let’s walk around the fest and check out some other stuff comic fest 93 had something to offer everyone this year Mark Schultz the creator of Cadillacs and dinosaurs held the speech Scott McCloud the author of understanding comics is seminar Harlan Ellison gave a speech to benefit the comic book Legal Defense Fund and Jim shooter held a seminar on

how to create your own comic book which also benefited the comic book Legal Defense front Malibu hosted a casino night for it the VIP guests and retailers but the two biggest events of the comic fest were the Wizard Awards which honored industry professionals and the debate between spawns creator Todd McFarlane and writer Peter David there’s a good reason that Todd is wearing a towel well that’s right comic fest 93 on the mighty meter their mighty meter rates things from one to five and I’m gonna give comic Fest a

four and a half only because parking was a nightmare was my first big fat I enjoyed it I won’t give comics that’s the same as Tony a four and a half because it was I mean was really great it was a great show they didn’t get to seventy thousands they were aiming for but a lot of great talent the programs were great Jim shooter seminar was so cool and it was nice to have such a good show such a big show so close to home yeah it’s officially the largest in the country now the final total was thirty

one thousand six hundred and sixty people showed up for the big fest where are you rate the place to rates on Ariel Road in Pine Hill radio-controlled cars and trucks is just the beginning indoor and outdoor tracks radio-controlled cars and accessories parts and servicing weekly races monthly and annual championships bring the family golden hobbies is the place to raise mention this ad and register to win a radio-controlled car [Music] [Music] available at amazing comments 928 fitzwater in philadelphia welcome to celebrity

corner I’m here with Gary Dell’Abate of the Howard Stern Show Gary I’d like to ask you what sort of comics you collect with you if you collect them and what sort of comics that the crew of the Howard Stern Show collection well I’m not really that much of a comic book collector I’m more of an animation art collector but uh it’s Mad Magazine a comic yeah I looked at a man I can read that forever a man that’s like everybody’s childhood think Howard likes to look at Superman and spider-man he

likes well through that sort of stuff what are some of the animation cells that you have in your collection a very vast collection I’m big Warner Brothers collector I have a bunch of Bugs Bunny’s for stealing have some Bob Clampett I have a more of a Martian like the shirt says I’ve got gossamer which is the monster and a big red red headed monster with the tennis sneakers I then have a bunch of hanna-barbera but um the best sell I have is I was out and hanna-barbera out in Los Angeles and

they made a sell for me it’s a probably we clicked on McGraw and myself all in one cell and then I met I met Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna and they signed it for me that’s that’s the one that’s my favorite while that’s it this week for the comic book show tune in next week we’re going to have more comic best footage and we’ll be reviewing MST 3000 so while you misty’s be watching and for all you image fans an interview with Todd McFarlane great see you next week yo coal enterprises is the exclusive

supplier of comic book preservation supplies to the comic book show ask for their product by name and remember when you go to your local comic store say you saw it on the comic book show oh my god this colic Gus is killing me I’m so tired wait a minute wait a minute where’s the equipment Gary

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