{"id":27571,"date":"2021-04-23T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:07:52","slug":"jim-salicrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/23\/jim-salicrup\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab an egg roll and join comics writer\/editor Jim Salicrup in Episode 143 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d planned to take a day trip to New York last year to chat with Jim Salicrup, whom I’d met during the mid-\u201870s when we both worked in the Marvel Comics Bullpen, but (for reasons I’m sure you understand) that couldn’t happen. And as I continue to pretend we\u2019re living in the world we want, rather than the one we\u2019ve been handed, I recently had that meal … albeit remotely.<\/p>\n

For the past 15 years, Jim’s been the editor-in-chief at Papercutz<\/a>, which publishes Nancy Drew<\/em>, The Hardy Boys<\/em>, Smurfs<\/em>, Asterix<\/em>, and more, but when I met him, he was at the start of his 20-year Marvel career, where he wrote Transformers<\/em>, Sledge Hammer<\/em>, The A-Team<\/em>, Spidey Super Stories<\/em>, the infamous Incredible Hulk<\/em> toilet paper, and much more. He also edited The Avengers<\/em>, The Uncanny X-Men<\/em>, The Fantastic Four<\/em>, and The Amazing Spider-Man<\/em>. In between those two jobs, he worked at Topps, where edited books such as Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/em>, X-Files<\/em>, Zorro<\/em>, and a line of Jack Kirby superhero comics \u2014 and also did a stint at Stan Lee Media as well.<\/p>\n

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We discussed the illustrated postcard which convinced Marvel Comics to hire him at age 15, how John Romita Sr. caused him to change his name the first day on the job, what he did to enrage MAD<\/em> magazine’s Al Feldstein, his late-night mission to secure Stan Lee’s toupee, what editor Mark Gruenwald had in common with Bill Murray, why the 1970s’ X-Men<\/em> revival was like Amazing Fantasy<\/em> #15, how he convinced Todd McFarlane to stick to Spider-Man (which eventually led to a blockbuster new comic), the possible connection between Stan’s love of crossword puzzles and the famed Marvel Method, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can take a seat at the table with us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where perhaps you’ll be tempted to sample some of the 142 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or listen using the embed below.<\/p>\n