I thought of posting this in the ‘random comic pic’ thread, but I’m sure at this point that there are enough interesting comic-related videos (even vintage stuff like this) out there now that might be worth sharing. I’m not a collector anymore outside of Omnibus books based on artists I learned from and I’ve never collected ‘characters’, but watching the occasional flip-through video on YT to decide on a purchase means other stuff turns up on the home page later on. Didn’t see a previous thread, so feel free to merge if it already exists.

This was just uploaded by someone this morning. Everyone’s ‘performing’ for the camera, as was common in these kind of educational shorts back then, but there’s some pretty heavy hitters involved.

THE WORLD OF COMIC BOOKS (1979)

And since its 1979, here’s a bonus:

Jumping a little further back, to 1976, The Commodore, NYC:

I’m not the biggest fan of Jack Kirby’s art style as I got into comics after things had evolved, but there’s no denying his importance to the medium and everything it spawned so this seems like an appropriate gesture if it happens:


For added value, here’s the documentary name-checked in the news report: