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Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

Comic Book Writer Tom King

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

NBC

Politics, Seth Myers, Seth Meyers, News, News Commentary, Authors, Books, Political Comedy, A Closer Look, Comedy, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Comic book writer Tom King talks about his work as a CIA agent, writing Batman and Catwoman's wedding and why his kids aren't impressed about his career in comics and the CIA.

Then, exclusively for the podcast, King talks to Late Night producer Henry Melcher and A Closer Look writer (and comics superfan) Sal Gentile about his work.


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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:10.1

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0:26.4

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0:36.6

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0:44.6

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the late night with Seth Meyers podcast. Today you'll hear

0:48.6

Seth talk to legendary comic book writer Tom King. King then takes a few more questions from

0:52.8

late night producer Henry Melcher and closer look supervising writer Sal Gentile. Now let's go to

0:57.7

Seth and Tom King. Our next guest is a CIA counterterrorism officer turned comic book writer. He's

1:03.5

currently writing DC's best-selling Batman series as well as the breakout hit Mr. Miracle.

1:09.2

Please welcome to the show Tom King, everyone.

1:15.4

Thanks for being here Tom. What a pleasure you nerd. I know. I am a nerd and I, you know,

1:21.6

went and to look into your biography once I sort of was a fan of your work because I read a bunch

1:26.0

of books here as they're really liked and then I sort of assumed you were a nerd too but then it

1:30.4

turns out your background is very unique to most comic book creators. You were a CIA counterterrorism

1:35.1

officer. Well it's only about half of comic creators wearing the CIA. Yeah. It's great. Was it

1:39.7

were you, but you were a comic book fan before that where you, did you still have your comics with

1:43.7

you? Were you able to read comics in your counterterrorism years? It was actually a nod benefit

1:49.6

because in the CIA, sort of the thing you do is you pretend to be other people so you can get

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