2008 Comic Book News Archives

April 2, 2008: “The Legends Behind The Comic Books” Screening

THE LEGENDS BEHIND THE COMIC BOOKS will premiere at the sixth annual Garden State Film Festival on Saturday, April 5th (1:00pm), at the famed Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Q & A discussion following the screening will include special guests, Producer/Director, Chip Cronkite, Executive Producer, Michael E. Uslan (Executive Producer of the Batman movies) and comic book legends, Joe Kubert, Greg Hildebrandt and Denny O'Neil.

This new documentary film recognizes the comic book as a true art form, as indigenous to American culture as jazz. It presents comic books as reflectors of a changing America from the 1930's to today, and it hails comic book superheroes as modern-day mythological figures.

THE LEGENDS BEHIND THE COMIC BOOKS captures for posterity the living artists and writers from The Golden Age of Comic Books (1938-1951) and The Silver Age of Comic Books (1956-1973). Insightful comments are provided by the creative geniuses who were there at the beginning, including...

  • Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, The Hulk, The X-Men, The Silver Surfer, Daredevil, and The Fantastic Four
  • Jerry Robinson, co-creator of The Joker and Robin the Boy Wonder
  • Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America, Sandman, Manhunter and the genre known as "romance comics"
  • Joe Kubert, definitive comic book artist of Hawkman, Sgt. Rock, Tarzan
  • Murphy Anderson, definitive artist of Buck Rogers, The Spectre, Dr. Fate, Hourman, Starman, and Black Canary
  • and many more.

    THE LEGENDS BEHIND THE COMIC BOOKS is a documentary film produced and directed by Chip Cronkite. Executive Producers, Michael E. Uslan, Susan & David Bershad, the founders of Stonebridge Productions, LLC, served as Executive Producers.

    The cost is $10 a person and people get to stick around afterward for the panel.



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