Barbara Friedlander Spotlight (55:05, 126mb)
Mark Evanier interviews Barbara Friedlander about what she wanted to do before working in comics, getting hired at DC Comics, what she did, how she moved up to writing and editing, the artists she worked with, how old movies influenced her writing and plot ideas, interacting with other editors and staff, covers and Irwin Donenfeld, Ira Schnapp, working under Carmine Infantino when he became head editor, E. Nelson Birdwell and the Inferior Five, Swing with Scooter and who he was based on, other female writers and editors, how editors were stressed about their jobs around the time of the Warner Brothers buy out, how freelancers were treated and the letters to the editors.
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