
Well, here it is! The Trade Secrets Podcast!
I hope it was worth the wait.
As I said on the Forum, three of the interviews you have heard before.
Trade Secrets 1
This is a talk with Eric who is the creator of Marvel Essentials and DC Showcases Yahoo! Group.
It was originally recorded for CCL #43 and uploaded on November 17, 2005.
Trade Secrets 2
This is a talk with former writer and production designer Bob Rozakis on one of the most misunderstood and legendary books: Cancelled Comics Cavalcade.
It was originally recorded for CCL #56 and uploaded on February 19, 2006.
Trade Secrets 3
This is a talk with regular Comic Geek Speak contributor John Mayo. John and I go over the Trade stats for August 2006.
It was originally uploaded, by Executive Producer Bryan Deemer, on October 13, 2006.
And the brand new Trade Secrets 4
This is a talk with Creator and Writer Ben Lichius. Ben’s four issue series The Black Coat, from Ape Entertainment, is being collected this December. It, along with Steve Bryant’s Athena Voltaire, has been Certified Cool in the October Diamond Previews.
Chris

Collected Comics Library Podcast #91
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How’bout them Tigers! As I say on the podcast the whole city is going nuts. Let’s hope they can win the Series!
As you know by now Absolute Long Halloween is on the way, and I talk a bit more about that.
My second podcast, the Trade Secrets Podcast will be debuting this Sunday with episode #4, find out what’s up with that.
This week DC and Marvel released their schedules for January and February and a little bit in March. Some get books from both companies caught my eye, but I’m a bit perplexed as to the Marvel Masterworks Atlas Era Heroes Volume 1 which collects among other characters, Stan Lee’s, 1950’s revival, of Captain America. I found this to be a really odd choice when Marvel has so much more to offer. To tell you the truth, my expectations are low with this book, but I hope to be proved wrong.
To help add another thread to the new Forum, The Question of the Week is back with a vengeance.
Aziz left me a voice mail regarding a Planet Hulk collected edition and Jasper helps us out with the whole Universal’s Classic Monster Legacy Collection and the 75th Anniversary Editions debate. I believe the jury has spoken. Case closed.
Chris
Links of note:
Wikipedia: Captain America IV/The Grand Director
The Plan 9 Rock Show
Music by Hot Club of Detroit
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The CCL Forum is back up and better then ever! As always my thanks go out to Bryan, Peter and the whole CGS crew.
Chris
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The CGS Forums are still down, thanks to a little thing called Friday the 13th – doubly worse since its October. You’ll be the first to know when it’s back up. Thanks for being so patient.
Chris
October 14, 2006
Great news, everyone, Tim Sale, himself has, announced over on his Forum the Absolute Long Halloween!!!
Here is the direct quote :
Well folks, its official, there is going to be an official LONG HALLOWEEN, Absolute Edition.
It seems an incredibly long time ago that Jeph and I started work on that book, and it was many, many years before I thought to do preliminary sketches, save scraps of paper with LH scribbles on them, and certainly about a decade before there was any digital archiving of anything that we now consider “extras” when it comes to DVD or ABSOLUTE editions.
We have SOME stuff. Some FUN stuff. Don’t worry about that. But I am writing this to ask if anyone out there has Long Halloween era artwork that we might be able to use. I have much more of the Dark Victory stuff; it’s really the Long Halloween material that’s needed.
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
He goes on to say…
And yes, of course, the best thing would have been for DC to put out an Absolute edition that included Long Halloween, Dark Victory and Catwoman When In Rome — there would be tons of extra material for that, and tons of fun besides — but that’s not what’s happening, and this is a good thing, so let’s move on.
In their infinite wisdom, DC has put this on the fast track, and we have a tight deadline…
I’m sure there will be a lot of talk about this when the CGS Forums getup and running again. Stay tuned.
Chris
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October 13, 2006
A few weeks ago I was approached for an interview by a website called Bridges. It is a site designed to help students of all ages excel in education, business and life. I want to thank Greg Pratt for thinking so highly of my podcast and what I have to offer. The original interview page can only be accessed by members of the Bridges community, but I have taken liberty to convert the paper into .pdf form.
CCL interview with Bridges.com
Chris
October 12, 2006
Newsarama has posted all the changes that have been made to the Infinite Crisis HC. Too bad the initial series was rushed. It would have been nice to have the complete story intact as it came out in monthly form.
Chris
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