{"id":2285,"date":"2011-03-23T22:28:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:28:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T02:28:52","slug":"listen-to-my-1975-interview-with-steve-gerber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/23\/listen-to-my-1975-interview-with-steve-gerber\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to my 1975 interview with Steve Gerber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1975, I interviewed Steve Gerber, as I&#8217;d interviewed so many of Marvel&#8217;s writers when I worked there and (among other things) edited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/editing\/foom\/\"><em>FOOM<\/em><\/a>, the company&#8217;s fan magazine. I&#8217;d decided that rather than have a standard news section on oncoming comics, I&#8217;d print edited transcripts of the writers talking about what was around the corner, so readers would get a taste of creator personalities as well.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s Steve talking about <em>Crazy<\/em> magazine as well as his work on <em>Man-Thing<\/em> and <em>The Defenders<\/em> in the only surviving tape from those years. Parts of this interview appeared transcribed in <em>FOOM<\/em> #9, the March 1975 issue.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YU4-R2nIoYo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And once more I ask myself&#8212;Did I really sound like that? I am forced to admit that I did. How did those of you who knew me then ever put up with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1975, I interviewed Steve Gerber, as I&#8217;d interviewed so many of Marvel&#8217;s writers when I worked there and (among other things) edited FOOM, the company&#8217;s fan magazine. I&#8217;d decided that rather than have a standard news section on oncoming comics, I&#8217;d print edited transcripts of the writers talking about what was around the corner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,20,62,10],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-steve-gerber","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}