Between the Panels with Roy Thomas

Daryl Coats sits down with silver age legend Roy Thomas to discuss his influences and career in the comic book industry.

[@jerryharrington8363]

Roy Thomas is a legend. The industry owes him a lot.

[@mediaguy6891]

roys run on conan is one of the greatest literature moments in humans history

[@carrion_man3700]

I absolutely love Roy Thomas.

[@bowman9778]

Nope he creates Rip offs of characters for marvel

[@TheMikester307]

I probably read a billion Roy Thomas stories back when I wasn't looking at the credits. I started noticing his name on the Justice Society stories when I was in High School and College. One of my favorites!

[@chazkhaira4690]

A legend I hope to meet

[@kforcer]

Roy Thomas, is, honestly, in my opinion, the greatest of all Conan writers. Robert E. Howard gave the character life, but Roy Thomas added something to him, a certain humanity and reluctant nobility that really made me fall in love with the character.

[@tiagobarros5666]

Legend!

[@DelightLovesMovies]

I inherited my dads comic book collection from the 60s 70s and 80s and Roy Thomas name is on a lot of them.

[@kianvaziri6939]

what a class act

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

I’m reading the Conan Marvel Years first 3 Omnibus and it has a lot of articles and news by Roy as he was getting Conan together as a series. He wrote over 200 issues of Conan not counting Savage Sword, etc. Amazing. .

[@StevenErnest]

Wonderful interview! I was never a big Conan fan, but the background is interesting. I quite liked Roy's work on Thor... bringing in Ragnarok -- they should use these classic story arcs for the films... and give Mr. Thomas some credit and $$$'s

[@angelmanfredy]

Love Roy

[@micpar2]

Roy really exposed many new generations to many of forgotten heroes. Like John Carter of Mars & Hugo Danner/Gladiator. If not for Roy I would had never heard of Philip Wylie's Gladiator (1930). Which was actually written by him in 1926.

[@brolandmann]

I wrote an adaptation for Malibu...but it was never published. :\

[@niknikktm]

Roy adapted Gladiator in the black and white mag Marvel Premier with the story titled "Man-God". To this day I still cant understand why someone hasn't purchased the rights to Gladiator for the big screen. Wylie's novel was a bit dry as far as his writing style but the premise is groundbreaking. Superman before Superman. If this were adapted for the big screen with a decent writer; it would be huge.

[@rickytoddbotelho9555]

Great interview.

[@tonebone7449]

Stan, Jack, and Steve created the world of Marvel... Roy turned it into a UNIVERSE.

[@langreeves6419]

Great writer. I really appreciate his work to fix inconsistencies. But I did grow up reading his silver/bronze age work, so I'm biased.

[@finncullen]

I loved Houseroy's stuff on Conan - nobody's lived up to it.

[@mongolchiuud8931]

Oriental oriental oriental oriental lmao