[Groop] Jim Shooter - EPIC Interference

[Steve Hubbell]

Jim Shooter's reply to the quote from the Comics Journal interview I posted on his blog.....
 
"...every time I talked to that tall fellow at Marvel, he also say it was impossible." If Sergio is referring to conversations we had when I was associate editor, he may be correct, because at that time it WAS impossible. And I had no power to change that or any other policy.

The meeting we had after I became Editor in Chief happened, however, exactly as described. It was possible for Marvel to publish creator-owned material then, because I had gotten approval to do so from President Jim Galton. Maybe that accounts for Sergio's statement, "They later changed their mind...."

The words, "...but at that time there was no way." are troubling. There certainly was a way. He heard it from me, he heard it from Publisher Mike Hobson. We were rarin' to go.

Sergio didn't mention Groo by name, and he probably didn't mention cheese dip. But it became apparent later that the property he'd been obliquely referring to in our conversation was Groo. 

"...they weren't able to even talk on a theoretical basis - nothing! They wanted nothing to do with it."

True, before I became EIC and Galton became President. Afterwards, not true. Mike Hobson and I talked to Sergio on a practical, let's-make-a-deal right now basis. We wanted everything to do with it. 
July 14, 2011 1:57 PM   		 	   		  
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