Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

So I had already shot myself in the foot there.

But uh Steve and I had sold a book to Malibu Comics.

Those of you who are on the show who remember Malibu, right?

Yeah, and they had and I was going and visiting with a friend of mine in LA so I went to their their um

uh their Calabasas studio and I never forgot that there's this mountainside with sheep on it or like goats being raised.

In you can see it from the thing.

And that's the mountain Kobe Bryant's helicopter slammed into.

Fun fact.

But uh I I remember I remember watching the news footage and be like, Oh wow, that's

That's what you can see from the c Ma Malibu offices.

And this is after Marvel bought them.

And bought them for their

for their computer colouring studio.

And they and I remember they had this weird like art like weird art deco.

Like they had the weirdest it was like Salvador Dali did a set design for the Flintstones kind of office.

It was this big open area with all these crazy colors and like it was just dominant.

And I I remember I was with my editor.

I was writing I did a uh I was with the editor who had bought uh

this book that was called Uh Cardinal's Law and uh and he was like and there was a there was a uh there was a uh bench, uh bus stop bench out in front of the offices that had Prime on it.

Like Prime was their big superhero.

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