Al Milgrom talks comics!
The kid from Huntington Woods grew up with a real passion for reading DC Comics. He was creating his own stories by the time he pulled up at the drug store that carried the first appearances of two characters with whom he'd spend many working hours one day: Spider-Man and Mighty Thor.
Sometime after graduating the University of Michigan in 1972, Jim Starlin's old Berkeley High school chum Allen Milgrom would embark on his own comics career. They both began with late 1960s fanzines. Allen then did some writing over at Warren Publishing. Carmine Infantino put him with Murphy Anderson, a very professional-looking fellow who was rather quiet about working in comics. Murphy worked in the office avoid his wife's errands from the home, so he was on the scene when Al joined DC and did backgrounds for Anderson. He did this for about a year before freelancing at Marvel, where Jim Starlin had already served briefly as Art Director.
Al would later revisit Thor and a new generation of Avengers with Roger Stern in the 80's, inking Thor as drawn by Ron Frenz and written by Tom DeFalco in the 1990s. He wrote and drew the Peter Parker title in 1984, too.
But it was his stop over editing and freelancing DC Comics that led to his co-creation of the sporadically-successful cult fan fave, Firestorm, the Nuclear Man, who even made it to the silver screen with the Superfriends in 1984-5, then returned in live action on The Flash and DC's Legends Of Tomorrow. So chances are, you've run across him!
Al and I talked one Sunday afternoon before the grandkids came over. He'd re-scheduled with me so he could catch University of Michigan football on Saturday, so, with deadline doom looming, Al generously answered my Firestorm questions and gave into the temptation to rhapsodize about the industry. It's the beginning of that conversation you'll find, perserved in this part one of my Creating Wonders/ Creating Marvels podcast, player found below!
Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin and Al Milgrom, from a TwoMorrows interview in Comic Book Artist #18.
Sometime after graduating the University of Michigan in 1972, Jim Starlin's old Berkeley High school chum Allen Milgrom would embark on his own comics career. They both began with late 1960s fanzines. Allen then did some writing over at Warren Publishing. Carmine Infantino put him with Murphy Anderson, a very professional-looking fellow who was rather quiet about working in comics. Murphy worked in the office avoid his wife's errands from the home, so he was on the scene when Al joined DC and did backgrounds for Anderson. He did this for about a year before freelancing at Marvel, where Jim Starlin had already served briefly as Art Director.
Al would later revisit Thor and a new generation of Avengers with Roger Stern in the 80's, inking Thor as drawn by Ron Frenz and written by Tom DeFalco in the 1990s. He wrote and drew the Peter Parker title in 1984, too.
Al and I talked one Sunday afternoon before the grandkids came over. He'd re-scheduled with me so he could catch University of Michigan football on Saturday, so, with deadline doom looming, Al generously answered my Firestorm questions and gave into the temptation to rhapsodize about the industry. It's the beginning of that conversation you'll find, perserved in this part one of my Creating Wonders/ Creating Marvels podcast, player found below!
Alan Weiss, Jim Starlin and Al Milgrom, from a TwoMorrows interview in Comic Book Artist #18.
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