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, breaking into DC Comics with fellow fanzine artist, Jim Starlin, assisting and learning comic book production with Neal Adams & Dick Giordano at Continuity Studios, his Advertising work, and starting as an Editor at Marvel comics working with artists like John Byrne and Bill Sienkiewicz, building up the Punisher from a side character into his own character, with the Punisher Mini-Series with Mike Zeck, creating the Punisher War Journal with Jim Lee, working with Mark Gruenwald, editing under Jim Shooter and Tom DeFalco, why he left Marvel, his work on his own creator-owned Alien Legion, and his work as a Professor at various universities including the School of Visual Arts. 🎬 Edited & Produced by Alex Grand, ©2021 Comic Book Historians Music - Standard License. Images © Respective Copyright holders. Carl Potts Biographical Interview 2019 📜 Video chapters 00:00:00 Welcoming Carl Potts 00:00:27 Early years of Carl Potts 00:02:22 My father and mother & family 00:05:40 Decided to go to New York to become a comic book artist 00:08:11 Early days at San Diego Comic-Con 1973, Neal Adams 00:09:28 Jim Starlin, Marvel | Sold my first piece to Archie Goodwin 00:10:19 Making connections in San Diego Comic-Con 00:11:14 Tell about Venture 5 | Frank Cirocco, Gary Winnick, Brent Anderson 00:12:09 Working at Continuity Studios 00:12:55 Tony Salmons, Tom Orzechowski 00:14:13 Reading comics in early days | DC War Titles 00:15:13 Russ Heath 00:15:29 Working w/ Schubert 00:15:57 Buying & reading Marvel stuff | Kirby storytelling 00:16:52 Steve Ditko | Spider-Man, Dr. Strange 00:17:55 Jim Starlin, British reprint assignments 00:18:37 How did you start work at Neal Adams Continuity Studios? 00:21:52 Joseph Rubenstein, Joe Desposito 00:23:07 What exactly is the Krusty Bunkers? 00:24:03 Continuity was like a social crossroads in the 70s 00:24:39 Phasing out of Continuity and entering Marvel 00:26:02 `Last of the Dragons', Marvel's 'Epic Illustrated' magazine| Terry Austin 00:27:33 One of best compliments ever got 00:27:56 Tell about Archie Goodwin 00:29:22 Archie comes in his pajamas and stretches 00:30:44 Joining Marvel's editorial staff in 1983 | Al Milgrom 00:33:56 I had no problems with Jim Shooter 00:36:10 Neal Adams and Jim Shooter personalities 00:37:15 How was editing John Byrne? | Working on Fantastic Four issues 00:40:54 Editing & inking of Moon Knight 00:41:30 Kevin Nolan 00:42:46 Rocket Raccoon in The Guardians of The Galaxy movies? 00:44:06 Mike Mignola, discovering more people 00:44:53 My best professional work experience of staff 00:46:20 Meeting with Steve Ditko & working 00:50:00 Craig Russell 00:51:37 Did you ever see Steve Leialoha's inks on Ditko 00:52:02 Last year under Jim Shooter was like a nightmare, why so? 00:55:48 Secret Wars crossover, Hulk | Dark side of Shooter 00:58:46 Reasons why Shooter was fired as editor 00:59:40 Jim Galton's managerial style 01:01:05 Hobson, executive editor 01:02:25 Working with Tom Defalco as editor-in-chief 01:03:20 Mark Gruenwald 01:06:17 Mark Gruenwald on working with Shooter & Tom Defalco? 01:07:20 Building up the Punisher 01:10:22 Did you choose Jim Lee to do the art? 01:13:30 What does an executive editor do? 01:17:30 Marvel Bankruptcy, 1994 | Why did you leave Marvel? 01:21:35 Beginning of 1995 | Marcus McLaurin 01:23:21 Alien Legion SciFi comic-book series 01:26:40 Bob Gale, American screenwriter 01:27:12 Dimension Films | MainFrame 01:28:06 Boaz Yakin, American screenwriter | Jerry Bruckheimer 01:29:23 David Benioff, American author | Tim Miller, Blur Studios 01:31:29 I've been writing screenplays on a variety of things over the years 01:33:09 Forgotten Silver Documentary by Peter Jackson 01:34:23 DC calls, layouts for someone else's work 01:34:59 The DC Comics Guide to Creating Comics Carl Potts 01:37:15 How started teaching, experience as a teacher? 01:39:40 Big difference btw mentoring at marvel & teaching 01:40:20 Vast majority of students not interested in comics 01:41:43 The irony of the business right now is... 01:42:30 My favorite graphic novel - This One Summer, Novel by Mariko Tamaki 01:43:27 Wrapping up #CarlPotts #Marvel #Charlton #ComicBookHistorians #CBHInterviews #ComicHistorianInterviews #CBHPodcast #CBH 👍 Like, share and subscribe Us 🔗 https://bit.ly/3iRIaxx ⚡️ Our Playlists 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Playlists ⚡️ Carl Potts ✅ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cpotts ✅ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cpotts1 ⚡️ Socials ✅ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Comicbookhistorians ✅ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comicbookhistorians ✅ Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/comichistorians 🎙 Audio Podcasts 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.buzzsprout.com 🌐 Website 🔗 https://comicbookhistorians.com/ ✊ Support us on Patreon 🔗 https://bit.ly/CBH-Patreon