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The sixth episode of our DC SECRET FILES podcast — the show that dares to tackle DC Comics’ greatest creations in encyclopedic form! Each episode, Frank will be joined by a special guest to cover characters and concepts from across DC’s history… In this case, blogger “G.B. Blackrock”, better known in comic book circles as Mark Baker-Wright, whose own show is Not Your Father’s Autobot: A Transformers: Generation 2 Comic Book Podcast! Our discussion of the given property will be married to a piece of original art commissioned by DC to spotlight the same. This time around, we chat about August 2010’s DC Universe Legacies #2, by Len Wein, Andy & Joe Kubert, as well as a host of other talents on the main and supplemental stories. Plus we cover YOUR feedback!

1. D.E.O. Report [0:00:57]
2. Cover Story [0:04:34]
3. Superman Earth-2 Profile Page art by Dave Bullock [0:17:17]
4. Lois Lane Earth-2 Profile Page art by Howard Chaykin [0:27:15]
5. Ultra-Humanite Profile Page art by Doug Mahnke [0:37:52]
6. “The Golden Age!” by Wein, Kubert, & Co. [0:47:52]
7. Golden Age Hourman (SkyBox Cosmic Teams) art by Mike Parobeck & Mike Machlan [0:52:47]
8. Golden Age Atom (SkyBox Cosmic Teams) art by Mike Parobeck & Mike Machlan [1:02:44]
9. Golden Age Dr. Mid-Nite (SkyBox Cosmic Teams) art by Mike Parobeck & Mike Machlan [1:10:34]
10. Golden Age Starman (SkyBox Cosmic Teams) art by Mike Parobeck & Mike Machlan [1:19:32]
11. “Snapshot: Reaction!” by Len Wein & J. H. Williams III [1:34:48]
12. Liberty Belle (All-Star Squadron Fact File) art by Rich Buckler & Jerry Ordway [1:42:45]
13. Vandal Savage (JLA-Z) art by Rick Burchett [1:53:59]
14. Golden Age Black Canary (SkyBox DC Master Series) painted by John Bolton [2:08:14]
15. Confidential Communiqués [2:28:05]

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The fifth episode of our DC SECRET FILES podcast — the show that dares to tackle DC Comics’ greatest creations in encyclopedic form! Each episode, Frank will be joined by a special guest, in this case, Fire & Water Network co-founder The Irredeemable Shag, to cover characters and concepts from across DC’s history. Our discussion of the given property will be married to a piece of original art commissioned by DC to spotlight the same. This time around, we chat about Summer 1993’s Superman & Batman Magazine #1, by a host of talents on the comics and text material. Plus we cover YOUR feedback!

1. D.E.O. Report [0:01:01]
2. Cover Story/”A Message from the Batcave” by Mike Parobeck & Rick Burchett [0:04:12]
3. Amazing-Man (Heroes Of The Golden Age) art by Chris Malgrain [0:14:38]
4. The Daily Planet news articles [0:29:40]
5. Icon (Milestone: The Dakota Universe) art by Mark D. Bright & Denys Cowan [0:33:45]
6. “The Origin of Superman” by Karl Kesel & Mike Parobeck [0:46:14]
7. Dian Belmont (DC Comics Vertigo) art by Michael W. Kaluta [0:48:56]
8. Alex & Roderick Burgess (SkyBox Sandman) art by Bryan Talbot [1:01:27]
9. Crazy About Cards! by Billy Aronson [1:07:56]
10. Spy Smasher (Heroes Of The Golden Age) art by Chris Malgrain [1:09:26]
11. “Secret Origin of the Batman” by Kelley Puckett, Mike Parobeck & Rick Burchett [1:28:32]
12. Soldier (WildC.A.T.s Sourcebook) art by Dan Norton & Chuck Gibson [1:31:06]
13. Grim Reaper (Standard Comics Encyclopedia) art by Mitch Ballard & Gerry Turnbull [1:39:53]
14. Bulletman (Heroes Of The Golden Age) art by Chris Malgrain [1:50:45]
15. Robin and Huntress: “Martial Arts” by Dennis O’Neil & Marifrian O’Neil with Mike Parobeck & Rick Burchett [2:06:11]
16. Jenny Sparks (Wildstorm Universe 97) art by Terry Dodson & Rachel Pinnock [2:09:02]
17. The Man of Steel Speaks! An Interview from Beyond the Grave by Jay Maeder & Roger Stern [2:16:10]
18. Scarab (DC Comics Vertigo) art by Glenn Fabry & Tony Luke [2:18:22]
19. Backstage at DC Comics: The Man Behind the Man of Steel by Steve Freitag with Mike Carlin and Jon Bogdanove [2:24:42]
20. Confidential Communiqués [2:25:38]

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• Marvel Comics’ Terminator 2: Time Bomb 00:01:10
• Robocop #11 (1990) by Skolnick/Rupinski/2xTrimpe 00:06:11
• Dark Horse Presents #138 by Grant/Frank Teran 00:15:36
• The Terminator Special #1 (1998) by Grant/Guy Davis 00:25:38
• The Terminator #1 (1998) written by Alan Grant 00:41:37
• The Terminator #2 (1998) drawn by Steve Pugh 00:54:51
• The Terminator #3 (1998) 01:08:46
• The Terminator #4 (1998) 01:20:42
• The Terminator: Rewired 01:30:37
• Metallic Mayhem 01:33:28
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The fourth episode of our DC SECRET FILES podcast — the show that dares to tackle DC Comics’ greatest creations in encyclopedic form! Each episode, Frank will be joined by a special guest, in this case, podcrasher Captain Entropy, to cover characters and concepts from across DC’s history. Our discussion of the given property will be married to a piece of original art commissioned by DC to spotlight the same. This time around, we chat about 1980’s The Untold Legend of the Batman #1-3, by Len Wein, Jim Aparo, and John Byrne; as well as a host of other talents on the main and supplemental stories. Plus we cover YOUR feedback!

1. D.E.O. Report [0:00:56]
2. “In the Beginning” by Len Wein, John Byrne, & Jim Aparo [0:05:13]
3. Batman (JLA-Z) art by Jim Lee [0:15:39]
4. Commissioner Gordon Profile Page art by Lee Weeks [0:28:58]
5. The Joker (DC Outburst: Firepower) art by Norm Breyfogle [0:37:44]
6. Catwoman (SkyBox Batman: Saga of the Dark Knight) painted by Brian Stelfreeze [0:45:25]
7. The Scarecrow (SkyBox Batman: Saga of the Dark Knight) art by Mike Mignola [0:52:57]
8. “With Friends Like These…” by Wein & Aparo [1:03:46]
9. The Penguin (SkyBox Batman: Saga of the Dark Knight) art by Mike Mignola [1:10:49]
10. Two-Face (SkyBox Batman: Saga of the Dark Knight) painted by Brian Stelfreeze [1:15:48]
11. Alfred Pennyworth Profile Page art by Lee Weeks [1:21:58]
12. The Mad Hatter (SkyBox Batman Master Series) painted by Dermot Power [1:34:55]
13. The Riddler (DC Outburst: Firepower) art by Staz Johnson [1:40:45]
14. “The Man Behind the Mask” by Wein & Aparo [1:45:51]
15. Secrets of the Batman art by Joe Staton
16. Confidential Communiqués [1:56:36]

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PFC Ryan Daly………………….. Illegal Machine

• Count Drunkula on The Future War 00:00:57
• Marvel NOW 00:05:12
• RoboCop Versus The Terminator Scores 00:08:32
• T2: Nuclear Twilight #1 written by Mark Paniccia 00:12:12
• T2: Nuclear Twilight #2 art by Gary Erskine 00:25:56
• T2: Nuclear Twilight #3 painted covers by Rob Prior 00:29:07
• T2: Nuclear Twilight #4 00:33:20
• T2: Nuclear Twilight #0/Cybernetic Dawn #0 00:42:42
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Nuclear Twilight tpb (1996) 00:50:14
• Robocop #7 (1990) written by Alan Grant 01:22:44
• Comics in Review: Robocop 2 01:28:10
• Robocop #8 (1990) penciled by Lee Sullivan 01:30:30
• Comics in Review: Robocop #1 01:35:37
• Robocop #9 (1990) inked by Kim DeMulder… 01:38:11
• Comics Scene #16: Alan Grant interview 01:42:25
• Robocop #10 (1990) …& Keith Williams 01:48:12
• Metallic Mayhem 01:54:50
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The second episode of our DC SECRET FILES podcast — the show that dares to tackle DC Comics’ greatest creations in encyclopedic form! Each episode, Frank will be joined by a special guest, in this case, podcaster ⁠Ed Moore of Teal Productions⁠, to cover characters and concepts from across DC’s history. Our discussion of the given property will be married to a piece of original art commissioned by DC to spotlight the same. This time around, we chat about 2010’s ⁠DC Universe Legacies #1⁠, by Len Wein, Andy & Joe Kubert, as well as a host of other talents on the main and supplemental stories. Plus we read YOUR feedback on the show’s pilot episode!

1. ⁠Fate’s Legacy Profile Page⁠ art by Enrique Alcatena [0:01:58]
2. ⁠The Spectre⁠ painted by Tom Mandrake [0:30:41]
3. “Snapshot: Reflection!” by Wein, Jones, & Co. [0:48:44]
4. ⁠Wildcat Profile Page⁠ art by Sergio Cariello [0:57:25]
5. ⁠Wonder Woman (Golden Age) Profile Page⁠ art by Frank Cho & Wayne Faucher [1:09:32]
6. ⁠Blood Queen Profile Page⁠ art by Scott Clark & Tom McWeeney [1:26:10]
7. Confidential Communiqués [1:38:16]

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The second episode of our DC SECRET FILES podcast — the show that dares to tackle DC Comics’ greatest creations in encyclopedic form! Each episode, Frank will be joined by a special guest, in this case, podcaster Ed Moore of Teal Productions, to cover characters and concepts from across DC’s history. Our discussion of the given property will be married to a piece of original art commissioned by DC to spotlight the same. This time around, we chat about 2010’s DC Universe Legacies #1, by Len Wein, Andy & Joe Kubert, as well as a host of other talents on the main and supplemental stories. Plus we read YOUR feedback on the show’s pilot episode!

1. D.E.O. Report [0:00:56]
2. Cover Story [0:09:46]
3. Speed Saunders Profile Page art by Rick Burchett [0:16:34]
4. Slam Bradley Profile Page art by Michael Lark [0:39:39]
5. Doll Man Profile Page art by Darrin Wiltshire & Chris Malgrain [0:58:12]
6. “In the Beginning…” by Wein, Kubert, & Co. [1:12:48]
7. Green Lantern Alan Scott Profile Page art by Martin Nodell [1:22:37]
8. Map of Poseidonis Profile Page art by Eliot R. Brown [1:35:50]
9. Confidential Communiqués [1:51:03]

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Just as you wondered if this podcast was dead, Frank returns to cover every Wonder Woman appearance in a Golden Age Justice Society of America story, slightly enabled by 1977's All Star Comics Revue and 1987's The All Star Illustrated Index.
We don't have a Magic Sphere, so if you want to communicate with us about the podcast...

• Skeet host Diabolu Frank directly, or commune with @rolledspine as a group. You can also #WonderWomanPodcast.
• Email Diabolu
• If the main Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman blog isn't your thing, try the umbrella Rolled Spine Podcasts.

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JSApril – Celebrating 85 years of the world’s first and greatest superhero team!
Back in 1940, eight sensational heroes united to create the world’s very first superhero team – the Justice Society of America! Now, 85 years later, we’re gathering podcasters and bloggers from around the globe for a month-long celebration in an event we’re calling… JSApril!
Throughout April 2025, join dozens of podcasters and bloggers as they each share their own unique tributes to the original and greatest superhero team! Every participant in JSApril is doing their own thing, so whether you choose to enjoy just one entry or experience them all, there’s something special for everyone! Get ready for an all-star month of beloved characters, fascinating insights, and incredible stories!

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The inaugural episode of our DC SECRET FILES podcast — the show that dares to tackle DC Comics’ greatest creations in encyclopedic form! Each episode, Frank will be joined by a special guest, in this case, comics writer David Gallaher, to cover characters and concepts from across DC’s history. Our discussion of the given property will be married to a piece of original art commissioned by DC to spotlight the same. This time around, we chat about 2001’s Golden Age Secret Files and Origins #1, by John Ostrander & Cliff Chiang, as well as a host of other talents on the main and supplemental stories. Plus we read YOUR feedback on the show’s promotion!

1. D.E.O. Report [0:00:56]
2. Adventure Heroes of the Pulps [0:05:25]
3. “The Dawn of the Golden Age” by Ostrander & Chiang [0:13:43]
4. Crimson Avenger Profile Page art by Michael Lark [0:22:42]
5. The Golden Age Sandman by Matt Wagner & Gavin Wilson [0:33:33]
6. Fantom of the Fair Profile Page art by Darrin Wiltshire & Chris Malgrain [0:43:34]
7. Blue Beetle (Golden Age) Profile Page art by Darrin Wiltshire & Chris Malgrain [0:49:08]
8. “Scenes from the Class Struggle at J.S.A. Mansion” by Peyer & Grau [0:58:40]
9. Flash I (Jay Garrick) Profile Page art by John Byrne [1:01:14]
10. “The Sentinel” by Peter Gross [1:09:27]
11. Hawkman Profile Page art by Rags Morales [1:10:59]
12. Johnny Thunder Profile Page art by Mark Props [1:19:30]
13. Quicksilver (Max Mercury) Profile Page art by Chris Malgrain [1:27:01]
14. “Show and Tell” by Hernandez-Rosenblatt & Igle [1:33:17]
15. Justice Society of America Profile Page art by Mike Collins & Bob McLeod [1:34:56]
16. Injustice Society of the World Profile Page art by Mike Collins & Bob McLeod [1:47:59]
17. Confidential Communiqués [1:53:35]

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BASILISK 🃡 BATROC

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including...

• Basilisk by Sandy Plunkett
• Batroc by Mike Zeck
• Inker/Embellisher: Josef Rubinstein

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Continuing the mission of The Fire & Water Network show Who’s Who – The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe where it left off in 1992, DC Secret Files host Diabolu Frank will be joined by rotating guests as they look at individual characters and concepts from the publication history of DC Comics, home of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. This will be done chiefly through the company’s Secret Files & Origins special publications, which featured 1-2 page brief encyclopedia entries coupled with art featuring a given subject. We’ll talk about the property, the featured art, and also take a quick look at short stories that were paired with the entries. While the core focus will be on “modern age” tales from after the universe-shaking 1985 event maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths until the end of that continuity in 2011, the first year of shows will feature looks at the initial 50 years of DC, going back to prehistory, Ancient Egypt, the Wild West, the World Wars, and as far beyond as the 30th Century.

Directions and art spotlights for each monthly episode can be found on the Rolled Spine Podcasts blog. The show will launch on April 2, 2025, as part of the multimedia crossover JSApril – Celebrating 85 years of the world’s first and greatest superhero team! Back in 1940, eight sensational heroes united to create the world’s very first superhero team – the Justice Society of America! This April, we’re gathering podcasters and bloggers from around the globe for a month-long celebration!

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Shag [Irredeemable]

• Marvel Age #102 (1991)00:01:08
• S2: The Shaginator is Back 00:04:29
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) written by Gregory Wright 00:07:19
• T2: Judgment Day #1 art by Klaus Janson 00:11:46
• T2: Judgment Day #200:15:53
• T2: Judgment Day #300:18:00
• T2: Judgment Day Trade Paperback (2003)00:19:19
• RoboCop (1988): “Crime Wave” 00:25:41
• Marvel Age #84 (1990)00:27:55
• Robocop #1 (1990) by Alan Grant, Lee Sullivan, & Kim DeMulder 00:25:58
• Robocop #2 (1990)00:41:24
• Terminal Cases 00:46:16
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BARON MORDO | BARON ZEMO | BA-BANI

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including...

Baron Mordo by Paul Smith

🗪 with Julia Raul

Baron Zemo by Mike Zeck

🗨 with derekwc of Fanholes Podcast

Alien Races: Ba-Bani by Paty

🗩 with Old Dude of B.O.N.D.I.N.G. Agents

Inker/Embellisher: Josef Rubinstein

❑ with Hunter Davis portraying Stan Lee

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Episode #8

Returning after a year's absence, the podcast begins a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents spy-fi/super hero comic, beginning with an episode-length look at the debut edition. Copious reference material from magazine articles and books.

• 00:00:09 1984 David M. Singer Introduction
• 00:02:23 Don Markstein's Toonopedia
• 00:04:14 The Comic Book Heroes by Gerard Jones & Will Jacobs
• 00:09:19 2002 Foreward by Robert Klein & Michael Uslan
• 00:14:22 T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1: "First Encounter"
• 00:16:08 1981 Retrospective by Lou Mougin
• 00:17:31 1981 Retrospective by David Singer
• 00:18:43 Dynamo: "Menace of the Iron Fog"
• 00:26:04 T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent NoMan / Face to Face
• 00:42:02 Menthor: "The Enemy Within"
• 00:50:07 T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Squad: "At the Mercy of the Iron Maiden"
• 00:56:48 Undersea Agent #1
• 01:14:15 Codas to Issues #1
• 01:16:54 Amazing Listeners

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Adventures of Superman #426, Alpha Flight #45, Amazing Spider-Man #286-287, Betty's Diary #6, Captain America #327-328, Classic X-Men #7, Cracked Magazine #226, D.P. 7 #5, Daredevil #241, The Demon #3, Fallen Angels #1, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #57, Mark Hazzard: Merc #4-6, Marvel Fanfare #31, Marvel Saga #16, Marvel Tales #197, Mephisto Vs... #1, The 'Nam #4, New Mutants #50, Psi-Force #6, Secret Origins #12, Star Trek Movie Special #2, Uncanny X-Men #215, West Coast Avengers #19, X-Factor #14, X-Men Vs. the Avengers #1, and more! “Transcripts”

• Early December, 1986
• Late December, 1986
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Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

TARGET:
Flanger

• The Terminator by James Robinson 00:00:35
• Terminator: Endgame #1 (1992) art Jackson Guice, & John Beatty 00:06:57
• Terminator: Endgame #2 (1992) 00:18:10
• Terminator: Endgame #3 (1992) 00:21:47
• Terminator: Endgame Trade Paperback (1992) 00:28:11
• Robocop: Roulette #1 (1993) by John Arcudi, Mitch Byrd, & Brian Garvey 00:36:37
• Robocop: Roulette #2 (1994) 00:45:28
• Robocop: Roulette #3 (1994) 00:50:08
• Robocop: Roulette #4 (1994) with Jeff Butler art 00:53:34
• Terminal Cases 00:57:43
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Billy Hynes José Fixit Illegal Machine

• David Anthony Kraft’s Comics Interview #82 00:00:54
• BillyCop 00:06:20
• Standees/Video Game 00:09:50
• Comics Scene #30 (1992) 00:14:49
• RvT0 00:24:38
• David Anthony Kraft’s Comics Interview #111 00:29:58
• Robocop Versus the Terminator #1 (1992) by Frank Miller & Walter Simonson 00:38:20
• Robocop Versus the Terminator #2 (1992) 00:47:39
• Robocop Versus the Terminator #3 (1992) 01:07:09
• Robocop Versus the Terminator #4 (1992) 01:14:15
• Robocop Versus the Terminator Trade Paperback (1993) 01:29:36
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Classic X-Men #6, D.P. 7 #3, Daredevil #240, Marvel Saga #15, The 'Nam #3, New Mutants #49, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #15, Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5, Strikeforce: Morituri #4, Uncanny X-Men #214, West Coast Avengers #18, X-Factor #13, and more!
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• Early November, 1986
• Late November, 1986
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• The Avengers, DC Comics, Daredevil, Marvel Comics, New Universe, Strikeforce: Morituri, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Men, Movies, Music, Comic Reader Résumé

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BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

• Terminator: Hunters and Killers #1 (1992) plotted by Toren Smith, Adam Warren, & Chris M. Warner 00:00:34
• Terminator: Hunters and Killers #2 (1992) scripted by Toren Smith 00:21:12
• Terminator: Hunters and Killers #3 (1992) art by Bill Jaaska & Dan Panosian 00:35:38
• Terminator: Hunters and Killers Trade Paperback (1993) 00:50:13
• Dark Horse Comics #6 (1993) 00:51:52
• Dark Horse Comics #7 (1993) 00:56:45
• Dark Horse Comics #8 (1993) 00:59:02
• Dark Horse Comics #9 (1993) 01:00:14
• Robocop: Mortal Coils #1 (1993) by Steven Grant, Nick Gnazzo, & Bruce Patterson 01:01:53
• Robocop: Mortal Coils #2 (1993) 01:05:42
• Robocop: Mortal Coils #3 (1993) 01:08:39
• Robocop: Mortal Coils #4 (1993) 01:10:06
• Terminal Cases 01:15:40
• episode art gallery
• blog post
• Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Presents, Robocop, Robocop Podcast, The Terminator (1984), Terminator NOW, Terminator Podcast

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Batman #403, Classic X-Men #5, D.P. 7 #3, Daredevil #239, Elfquest #18, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #55, The History of Electronics, Justice #3, Marvel Saga #14, The 'Nam #2, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #14, Strikeforce: Morituri #3, Tandy Computer Whiz Kids, Uncanny X-Men #213, X-Factor #12, and more!
“Transcripts”

• Early October, 1986
• Late October, 1986
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GENERAL AUDIENCES

BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

TARGETS:
Illegal Machine

• T1 (1984) 00:02:22
• Halálosztó by Attila Fazekas 00:28:21
• Terminator Zero (2024) 00:35:27
• Robocop Magazine #1 (1987) by Harras, Saltares, Kupperberg, & DeZuniga 01:05:58
• Robocop: The Official Adaptation of the Hit Film! (1990) 01:09:15
• Robocop 2 Magazine #1 (1990) 01:26:18
• Robocop 2: The Official Adaptation of the Hit Film! (1990) 01:27:12
• Robocop 2 #1 (1990) by Alan Grant, Mark Bagley, & Tony DeZuniga 01:28:51
• Robocop 2 #2 (1990) 01:32:33
• Robocop 2 #3 (1990) 01:33:53
• Robocop 3 #1 by Steven Grant, Hoang Nguyen, & Art Nichols 01:37:16
• Robocop 3 #2 (1993) 01:39:53
• Robocop 3 #3 (1993) 01:43:08
• Terminal Cases 01:52:21
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• blog post
• Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Presents, Robocop, Robocop Podcast, The Terminator (1984), Terminator NOW, Terminator Podcast

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Alpha Flight #41, Amazing Spider-Man #283-284, Animax #1, Batman #402, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos #1, Classic X-Men #4, D.P. 7 #2, Daredevil #238, Defenders of the Earth #1, Elfquest #17, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #54, Groo the Wanderer #22, Howard the Duck: The Movie #1, Justice #2, Mark Hazzard: Merc #2-3, Marvel Saga #12-13, Mighty Thor #374, The 'Nam #1, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #13, Power Pack #27, Psi-Force #3, Strikeforce: Morituri #2, Super Powers #4, Uncanny X-Men #212, X-Factor #11, X-Men Annual #10, and more!
“Transcripts”

• 1st Week of September, 1986
• 2nd Week of September, 1986
• 3rd Week of September, 1986
• 4th Week of September, 1986
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• Animax, At The Movies, Batman, DC Comics, Defenders of the Earth, G.I. Joe, Howard the Duck, Marvel Comics, New Universe, Siskel & Ebert, Strikeforce: Morituri, Spider-Man, Super Powers, Thor, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Men, Movies, Music, Comic Reader Résumé

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Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

TARGETS:
Billy Hynes Illegal Machine

• The Enemy Within #1 by Ian Edginton & Vince Giarrano 00:00:36
• Billy & Arnie 00:09:56
• The Terminator: The Enemy Within #2 00:14:23
• Billy & The Terminator 00:19:08
• The Terminator: The Enemy Within #3 00:29:01
• The Terminator: The Enemy Within #4 00:33:04
• The Terminator: The Enemy Within TPB (1992) 00:39:55
• Terminal Cases 00:48:43
• San Diego Comic-Con Comics #1-3 00:53:30
• Dark Horse Comics #1-3 (1992) 00:55:55
• Prime Suspect #1 by John Arcudi & John Paul Leon 00:57:49
• Robocop: Prime Suspect #2 / Ill Mac on Robocop 00:59:59
• Robocop: Prime Suspect #3 01:07:01
• Robocop: Prime Suspect #4 01:08:53
• Robocop: Prime Suspect TPB (1993) 01:11:00
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Batman #401, Classic X-Men #3, Cracked #224, D.P. 7 #1, Elfquest #16, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #53, G.I. Joe Order of Battle #1, Justice #1, Mighty Thor #373, New Mutants #46, Psi-Force #2, Strikeforce: Morituri #1, Uncanny X-Men #211, X-Factor #10, and more!
“Transcripts”

• Early August, 1986
• Late August, 1986
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• Atari, Batman, Cracked, DC Comics, The Fly, G.I. Joe, Howard the Duck, Marvel Comics, New Universe, Stand By Me, Strikeforce: Morituri, Super Powers, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Men, Movies, Music, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, Video Games, Comic Reader Résumé

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BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

TARGET: Flanger

• Comics Scene Spectacular #5 (1991) 00:00:55
• One Shot by James Robinson & Matt Wagner 00:06:48
• Slings & Arrows 00:17:36
• “The Other Sarah Connor” 00:19:55
• Amazing Heroes 1991 00:36:30
• Secondary Objectives #1 by James Robinson & Paul Gulacy 00:41:39
• Secondary Objectives #2 00:59:01
• Secondary Objectives #3 01:12:10
• Secondary Objectives #4 01:20:57
• Terminator: Secondary Objectives TPB (1992) 01:29:13
• Terminal Cases 01:32:29
• episode art gallery
• blog post
• Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Presents, The Terminator (1984), Terminator NOW, Terminator Podcast

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Alpha Flight #39-40, Captain America #322-323, Casper #225, Classic X-Men #2, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #52, Mark Hazzard: Merc #1, Marvel Saga #11, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #11-12, Psi-Force #1, Richie Rich #219, Son of Ambush Bug #4-6, Super Powers Vol. 3 #2, Uncanny X-Men #210, X-Factor #9, and more!
“Transcripts”

• Early July, 1986
• Late July, 1986
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• Alpha Flight, Big Trouble in Little China, Captain America, Cracked, DC Comics, G.I. Joe, Marvel Comics, New Universe, Pac-Man, Spider-Man, Super Powers, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Men, Atari, Maximum Overdrive, Movies, Music, Q*bert, Superman, Video Games, Comic Reader Résumé

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BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Rated PG for sci-fi violence.

• Amazing Heroes Preview Special #11 (1990) 00:00:21
• Dark Horse Insider Vol. 1, #13 00:01:21
• The Terminator #1 (1990) 00:04:29
• Comics Scene #15 (2nd Series) 00:14:36
• The Terminator #2 (1990) 00:21:42
• Dark Horse Insider Vol. 2, #36: Chris Warner 00:27:14
• The Terminator #3 (1990) 00:28:31
• The Original Comics Series HC introduction by John Arcudi 00:35:14
• The Terminator #4 (1990) 00:38:25
• Terminator: Tempest TPB (1991) / Slings & Arrows 00:44:45
• Terminal Cases 00:49:38
• episode art gallery
• blog post
• Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Presents, The Terminator (1984), Terminator NOW, Terminator Podcast

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Elvira's House of Mystery #6, Fantastic Four #293, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #50, Marvel Age #41, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #9, Masters of the Universe #3, Son of Ambush Bug #2-3, Spectacular Spider-Man #117, The Mighty Thor #370, Uncanny X-Men #208, Web of Spider-Man #18, West Coast Avengers #12, X-Factor #7, and more!
“Transcripts”

• Early May, 1986
• Late April, 1986
• Twitter

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• Alpha Flight, Captain America, DC Comics, Dakota North, G.I. Joe, Howard the Duck, Incredible Hulk, Madballs, Marvel Comics, Masters of the Universe, Spider-Man, Super Powers, Wolverine, X-Factor, X-Men, Asteroid, Atari, Karate Kid, Movies, Music, Space Invaders, Superman, Video Games, Comic Reader Résumé

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BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Rated PG for sci-fi violence.

TARGETS:
Tom Panarese Flanger

• Now Comics 1990 00:00:49
• Slings & Arrows: The Return of Ron Fortier 00:05:34
• Let’s Talk Terminator…? 00:14:16
• The Terminator #17 (1990) 00:20:17
• The Final Fortier 00:29:31
• Now What?! 00:34:41
• Terminator: All My Futures Past #1 (1990) 00:43:23
• Bad Trade 00:52:37
• The Uncollecting 00:57:11
• Terminator: All My Futures Past #2 (1990) 01:02:35
• Now… Dark Horse 01:11:08
• Chuck Dixon Speaks 01:22:17
• Sales Data 01:25:58
• NOW… and Then… 01:35:21
• Terminal Data 01:41:36
• episode art gallery
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• Chuck Dixon, Comic Books, Now Comics, The Terminator (1984), Terminator NOW, Terminator Podcast, Universal Soldier

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Elvira's House of Mystery #6, Fantastic Four #293, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #50, Marvel Age #41, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #9, Masters of the Universe #3, Son of Ambush Bug #2-3, Spectacular Spider-Man #117, The Mighty Thor #370, Uncanny X-Men #208, Web of Spider-Man #18, West Coast Avengers #12, X-Factor #7, and more!
“Transcripts”

• Early May, 1986
• Late April, 1986
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]
noun
1. a summing up; summary.
2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

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BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.
Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

TARGET:
José Fixit

• Amazing Heroes Preview Special #170 (1989) 00:01:40
• Wizard’s Alex Ross: Millennium Edition Special (1999) 00:03:42
• Cybernetic Childhood of Mr. Fixit 00:05:27
• Now What?! 00:13:50
• Prelude: The Terminator #13 (1989) 00:21:25
• Introduction by Brandon Graham (2013) 00:26:59
• Terminator: The Burning Earth #1 (1990) 00:30:22
• The Burning Earth #2 / Introduction by Jim Krueger (2003) 00:41:05
• The Burning Earth #3 / Foreword by Ron Fortier (2013) 00:55:08
• The Burning Earth #4 / Afterword by Alex Ross 01:08:16
• Terminator: The Burning Earth #5 (1990) 01:19:30
• Collected Editions & Sales Data 01:30:59
• Terminal Data 01:38:01
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.This episode includes Alpha Flight #36-37, Amazing Spider-Man #278-279, Avengers #269, Batman #397, Captain America #319-320, Conan the Barbarian #184, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #49, Last Days of the Justice Society Special #1, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #8, Misty #5-6, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #8-9, Solomon Kane #6, Spectacular Spider-Man #116, Uncanny X-Men #207, X-Factor #6, and more!
“Transcripts”

• Early April, 1986
• Late April, 1986
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• Avengers, Batman, Choose Your Own Adventure, DC Comics, G.I. Joe, Justice Society of America, Marvel Comics, Misty Collins, Sabretooth, Silver Sable, Solomon Kane, Spider-Man, Two-Face, X-Factor, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

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Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

• The Terminator #11 (1989) 00:00:36
• Ron Fortier Then! 00:10:45
• The Terminator #12 (1989) 00:17:05
• Ron Fortier Speaks! 00:25:22
• The Terminator #13 (1989) 00:29:03
• And Now… Thomas Tenney! 00:35:43
• The Terminator #14 (1989) 00:37:39
• Why I Love Comics #199 with Ron Fortier! 00:42:51
• The Terminator #15 (1989) 00:45:14
• Final word with Ron Fortier! 00:56:16
• The Terminator #16 (1990) 00:57:39
• Terminal Data 01:04:02
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Avengers #268, Conan the Barbarian #183, Elvira's House of Mystery #4, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #48, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #7, Masters of the Universe #2, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #7, Spectacular Spider-Man #115, Uncanny X-Men #206, Web of Spider-Man #16, X-Factor #5, and more!
“Transcripts”

• March, 1986
• Twitter

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• DC Comics, Elvira, G.I. Joe, House of Mystery, Marvel Comics, X-Factor, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

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BY THE COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and mild language.

• “Demon Days” by Fred Schiller 00:00:29
• Rust by Steve Miller & John Statema 00:03:34
• Rust by Fred Schiller & Tony Akins 00:08:25
• The Terminator by Fred Schiller & Tony Akins 00:13:34
• The Terminator #8 (1989) by Jack Herman & Thomas Tenney 00:16:48
• Rust by Katherine Llewellyn & Vincent Locke 00:28:47
• The Terminator #9 (1989) by Ron Fortier & Thomas Tenney 00:34:52
• Why I Love Comics #199 with Ron Fortier! 00:39:39
• The Terminator #10 (1989) 00:46:34
• Rust after Now 00:52:44
• Terminal Data 00:57:07
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• Comic Books, Now Comics, Rust, The Terminator (1984), Terminator NOW, Terminator Podcast,

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Elfquest #10, Elvira's House of Mystery #3, Fury of Firestorm #47, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #47, Legend of Wonder Woman, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #6, Meet Misty #4, The Punisher #5, Secret Origins #2, Thundercats #4, Uncanny X-Men #205, Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, X-Factor #4, and more!
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• Amazing Heroes #139 (Aliens cover feature) 00:01:15
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• Ryan Daly / Now Comics News 00:21:53
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• The Terminator #4 (1989) 00:27:32
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• The Terminator #6 (1989) 00:41:31
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Rated PG for sci-fi violence.

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• The Original Astro Boy / Speed Racer 00:41:20
• NOW Comics’ The Terminator 00:46:28
• The Terminator #1 (1988) 00:48:51
• The Terminator #2 (1988) 00:56:03
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]noun1. a summing up; summary.2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.
This episode includes Batman and the Outsiders #32, Blue Devil #23, Elfquest #9, Elvira's House of Mystery #2, Fury of Firestorm #46, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #46, Incredible Hulk #318, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #5, The All New, All Daring Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #113, The Punisher #4, Secret Origins #1, Star Wars Droids #1, Uncanny X-Men #204, X-Factor #3, and more!
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• January, 1986
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Batman, Blue Devil, DC Comics, Elvira, Firestorm, G.I. Joe, He-Man, House of Mystery, Hulk, Marvel Comics, Masters of the Universe, The Outsiders, Punisher, Secret Origins, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Superman, X-Factor, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer, Aquaman #1, Blue Devil #21-22, Booster Gold #1, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #43 & Yearbook #2, Longshot #5-6, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #2-4, Meet Misty #2-3, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #3-5, The Punisher #1-3, Robotix #1, Sectaurs #5,The All New, All Daring Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #110, Wonder Man #1, X-Factor #1-2, and more!
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• October, 1985
• November, 1985
• December, 1985
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• Ambush Bug, Aquaman, Blue Devil, DC Comics, Elvira, Booster Gold, G.I. Joe, He-Man, Hulk, Jem and the Holograms, Longshot, Marvel Comics, Masters of the Universe, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, OHOTMU, Punisher, Robotix, Saturday Night Live, She-Ra, SNL, Spider-Man, Star Wars, X-Factor, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

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Episode #7

• 00:00:12 Preamble
• 00:03:53 Part 1: Wally Wood and Witzend
• 00:10:09 Part 2: Mike Friedrich and Star*Reach
• 00:16:34 Part 3: Jack Katz and The First Kingdom
• 00:22:26 Part 4: Wendy and Richard Pini and Elfquest
• 00:29:03 Part 5: Dave Sim and Cerebus
• 00:35:56 Part 6: The future of independent comics

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job. In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Blue Devil #19 & Summer Fun Annual #1, Dreadstar and Company #6, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #42, Heroes for Hope: Starring the X-Men, Incredible Hulk #312-313, Longshot #4, Marvel Saga: the Official History of the Marvel Universe #1, Meet Misty #1, Nightcrawler #1-2, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #1-2, The All New, All Daring Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #108-109, Tales of the Teen Titans #59, and more!
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• August, 1985
• September, 1985
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• Battle of the Planets, Blue Devil, DC Challenge, Dreadstar, Hulk, Longshot, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, OHOTMU, The 'Nam, Robotech, Spider-Man, Star Comics, Superman, Teen Titans, Voltron, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

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Julia Raul returns to join Diabolu Frank for the finale of our JLMay 2023 / Milestone Media trilogy of episodes. Since the previous shows tended toward paired character spotlights, we have to take a kitchen sink approach now, looking at the first year-plus of the series Blood Syndicate & Icon and the earliest Shadow Cabinet, including its launch event "Shadow War." We also return to Hardware and Static through to the intracompany event "Worlds Collide," restoring our theme and mandate by mingling in with DC's Superman Family of titles (well, the creative teams that aren't afraid to drive through the dark side of town, anyway.) Along the way, we talk Vixen, Black Canary, Green Lantern John Stewart, Steel, and more. In case you missed it, these episodes have covered every story from the trade paperback The Brave and the Bold: Milestone, which means it's time to visit the early issues of Xombi, including David Kim's team-up with the Crispus Allen incarnation of The Spectre from The Brave and the Bold #25 in the story "Annihilating Angel" by John Rozum & Scott Hampton.
JLMay 2023 will cover the third volume of DC Comics' The Brave and the Bold (2007-2010), which ran 35 issues. There's only 31 days in the month, so we'll run a list of all the issues with links to the podcasts intent on covering them until the actual shows turn up, individual or in groups...
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This episode, an overview of three generations of Blue Beetle ahead of their motion picture debut, and a look at most of the first year of Milestone's Hardware title, followed by the 2009 pairing of Jaime Reyes and Curtis Metcalf in The Brave and the Bold #25 by Adam Beechen & Roger Robinson
JLMay 2023 will cover the third volume of DC Comics' The Brave and the Bold (2007-2010), which ran 35 issues. There's only 31 days in the month, so we'll run a list of all the issues with links to the podcasts intent on covering them until the actual shows turn up, individual or in groups...
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Five years later... somebody else covers Legion, because DC Bloodlines is back to Black with coverage of African-American & Latin heroes as part of a multitudinous podcasting crossover event! Julia Raul joins Diabolu Frank for an exhaustive discussion of Jefferson Pierce, A.K.A. Black Lightning, with an emphasis on his 1995 solo series (collected as Brick City Blues) and live action television show of 2018-21. Then they move on to Virgil Hawkins, of the 1993 Milestone Comics series Static (with a brisk overview of its first year) and the 2000-2004 animated show Static Shock. Finally, the two heroes team-up for 2009's "Last Time I Saw Paris" by Matt Wayne & Howard Porter from The Brave and the Bold #24.
JLMay 2023 will cover the third volume of DC Comics' The Brave and the Bold (2007-2010), which ran 35 issues. There's only 31 days in the month, so we'll run a list of all the issues with links to the podcasts intent on covering them until the actual shows turn up, individual or in groups...

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Martian Manhunter in…

• Justice League of America #228 (July, 1984)
• Justice League of America #229 (August, 1984)
• Justice League of America #230 (September, 1984)

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• From DC Comics's April 1989 cover-dated Power of the Atom #11!

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Episode #6Thanks to soft sales and a troubled market, Blackthorne’s 1987 Timeline full color shared universe comic titles failed to launch, shuttering after just two of the proposed ten books shipped their first issues. This is the conclusion of their story, as material is released in various formats and in fits and starts, when it appears at all, beginning the following year. Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

• 00:00:31 Amazing Heroes: The Last Issue
• 00:06:26 Walking The Timeline: Blackthorne’s 4-Color Universe
• 00:15:56 Sonik!
• 00:22:56 Wind Rage / Book Two
• 00:33:27 Jack Hunter
• 00:40:27 XL, The Graphic Novel
• 00:56:11 Operative: Scorpio
• 01:15:25 Omni-Men
• 01:23:31 Omega Elite
• 01:40:50 Book Three
• 01:45:50 End of the Timeline / Amazing Listeners

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What if the rollout of a proposed small press full color super-heroic shared universe came out more like an Agatha Christie murder mystery? It's Ten Little Launch Titles, with a host of announced established talents across 1987-- but how many of the names will show up, which titles will actually see release, in what format, and when exactly? Diabolu Frank is on the case, and his suspects include Neal Adams, David Ammerman, Arnel Avetria, Dell Barras, Dante Barreno, Mark Beachum, Norm Breyfogle, Frank Cirocco, Sam de la Rosa, Tony DeZuniga, Jan Duursema, Dennis Francis, Dante Fuget, Mike Gustovich, Mark Wayne Harris, Phil Haxo, Doug Hazlewood, Rich Hedden, Jack Herman, Bob Ingersoll, Peter Iro, Bruce Jones, Michael William Kaluta, Joe Kubert, Victor Laszlo, Tom Mandrake, Lee Marrs, Cliff MacGillivray, Tom McWeeney, Chris Miller, Adrian Moro, Kevin Nowlan, Steve Perry, Jim Reddington, Rico Rival, P. Craig Russell, Dan Schaeffer, Greg & Terry Shoemaker, Jim Starlin, John Stephenson, Greg Swan, Danny Taver, Dan Tolentino, Albert Val, Bob Versandi, Charles Vess, B. J. Weiss, Louis Williams, & Nollie Zamora. Can you figure out the truth before we relay it?

• 00:00:46 Lost Universes: Blackthorne
• 00:08:17 The Timeline Series
• 00:15:11 Jack Hunter
• 00:21:38 Outposts: Danse / The Darkling Chronicles / MAD VII
• 00:31:33 Omni-Men
• 00:44:43 Locke!
• 00:54:48 XL
• 00:59:51 The Bringers
• 01:14:18 Wind-Rage
• 01:19:15 Amazing Listeners

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes All-Star Squadron #50, Bananas #31 & 69, Blue Devil #17, Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, DC Comics Presents Annual #4, Dreadstar and Company #5, Elfquest #3, The Encyclopedia of Superheroes, Longshot #2-3, Mad Magazine #264 & 270, Marvel Age #8, 16, 22, & 27, Secret Wars II #5, Nathaniel Dusk II #1, The All New, All Daring Peter Parker, the Spectacular #107, The World Encyclopedia of Comics, and more!

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• 0: Application (1967-1981)

• July, 1985
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Back to the Future, Blue Devil, Cracked, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Lifeforce, Longshot, Mad, Marvel Age, Matt Houston, Scholastic, Secret Wars, Spider-Man, Squadron Supreme, Star Comics, Supergirl, Superman, V, Comic Reader Résumé

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The Business Year (Second Quarter - 1985)

ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Ambush Bug #2-4, Blue Devil #14-16, Dreadstar and Company #2-4, Elfquest #1-2, Fantastic Four #281, Fist of Khonshu: Moon Knight #4, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #37-38, Longshot #1, The Losers Special #1, Ms. Tree 3-D #1, Muppet Babies #2, Secret Wars II #1, Tales of the Teen Titans #55, Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Volume VI, and more! Plus a look at Spring films & television of 1985...

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• April, 1985
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Ambush Bug, Blue Devil, Chevy Chase, Cocoon, Daredevil, Dreadstar, Elfquest, Fantastic Four, G.I. Joe, The Goonies, Grimjack, James Bond, Ladyhawke, Longshot, The Losers, Moon Knight, Ms. Tree, Muppets, New Teen Titans, Pale Rider, Return to Oz, Richard Donner, Secret Wars, Sectaurs, Super Powers Collection, Who's Who, Wolverine, X-Men, Comic Reader Résumé

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Episode #4: Revengers The second part of a multi-episode exploration of Neal Adams’ Continuity Comics properties.

• 00:00:17 From Pacific to Continuity
• 00:02:39 The Amazing Origin Of The Silver Streak & Armor
• 00:46:31 The Ultimate Man: Megalith
• 00:54:10 Crazyman
• 01:04:55 The Revengers featuring Megalith
• 01:37:59 Samuree™ featuring Samuree™

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• Recurring villain debut: Humbug!
• By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more!
• From DC Comics’s March 1989 cover-dated Power of the Atom #10!

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Not quite two years later, Frank returns with special guest Jeffrey Brown (They/Them),  who has also been waiting a couple years to hear this audio. A lengthy,  roaming conversation on all things Amazing Amazon, including omnibuses,  animation, and action figures.We don’t have a Magic Sphere, so if you want to communicate with us about the podcast…Tweet host Diabolu Frank directly, or commune with @rolledspine as a group. You can also #WonderWomanPodcast. Email Diabolu If the main Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman blog isn’t your thing, try the umbrella Rolled Spine Podcasts.

Animation, Artemis, Barbara Minerva, Cheetah, Circe, Diana Prince,  Donna Troy, George Pérez, Hippolyta, JLA, Nubia, Philippus, Silver Swan,  Steve Trevor, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman Podcast, Wonder Woman,  William Messner-Loebs,

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Interview conducted with legendary comic book scripter Chris Claremont at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on either June 18 or 19, 2016. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality. The focus is on his DC work on titles such as JLA and Sovereign Seven as well as his perspective on their iconic characters, especially Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Amazing Spider-Man #264, Blue Devil #11, Captain America #305, Daredevil #220, Dreadstar and Company #1, Ewoks #1, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #36, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #6, New Mutants #29, Rocket Raccoon #1, Sectaurs #1, Tales of the Teen Titans #52 & 54, Uncanny X-Men #192-193, Web of Spider-Man #1, and more! Plus a look at early films & television of 1985...

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• January, 1985
• February, 1985
• March, 1985
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1. a summing up; summary.

2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Amazing Spider-Man #262, Conqueror of the Barren Earth #1, Fantastic Four #275, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #31-33, G.I. Joe Yearbook #1, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #3-5, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #10-12, The New Defenders #141, New Teen Titans #4, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #99, Robotech Defenders #1, Thing #22, Uncanny X-Men #191 and more! Plus a look at Fall films & television of 1984…

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• October, 1984
• November, 1984
• December, 1984
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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Buckaroo Banzai #1, Alpha Flight #17, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8-9, Blue Devil #6-7, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-2, Thing #19, X-Men Annual #8, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero #29-30 and more! Plus a look at more summer films of 1984...

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• August, 1984
• September, 1984
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Interview conducted with heroic comic book scripter Mark Waid at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on either May 26 or 27, 2018. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality. We spend a lot of time on his early career as a writer and editor, including Amazing Heroes, Comics Week, Secret Origins, The Legend of Aquaman Special, Who’s Who in the DC Universe, DC Cosmic Cards, Doom Patrol, Daily Planet Special Invasion! Edition, Atlas of the DC Universe, !mpact Comics, Legion of Super-Heroes, Underworld Unleashed, the death of Tora “Ice” Olafsdotter, and surely more Martian Manhunter questions than he ever had to field in one sitting.

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Episode #3: The New Heroes The first part of a multi-episode exploration of Neal Adams’ Continuity Comics properties.

• 00:00:17 Neal Adams v Jack Kirby
• 00:04:08 The New Heroes / Mike Nasser
• 00:09:34 Starspawn
• 00:13:46 Shadow Hunter & Skateman
• 00:15:13 Ms. Mystic by Neal Adams, Mike Nasser, & Various
• 00:45:06 Urth 4 by Trevor Von Eeden, Ron Wilson & Peter Stone
• 00:57:39 Zero Patrol by Esteban Maroto & Neal Adams
• 01:03:45 Shaman by Neal Adams & Various
• 01:11:35 Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future
• 01:17:23 Echo of Futurepast
• 01:22:16 Bucky O’Hare and the Toad Menace by Michael Golden & Larry Hama

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• Joining the Justice League?
• By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more!
• From DC Comics's Holiday 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #9 & Justice League International #24!

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• Invasion! Aftermath Extra!
• By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more!
• From DC Comics's Holiday 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #8, plus Starman #6 & Invasion #3!

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• Invasion! First Strike! Extra!
• By Roger Stern, Graham Nolan, K.S. Wilson and more!
• From DC Comics's Holiday 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #7, plus Invasion #2 & Hawk and Dove #1!

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• Chronos strikes with art by a Legend!
• By Roger Stern, John Byrne & K.S. Wilson!
• From DC Comics's Winter 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #6!

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• Guest-Starring The Elongated Man, Maxwell Lord & Oberon!
• By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson!
• From DC Comics's December 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #5!

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• The Atom in DC Bonus Book #8!
• By Joe Calchi, Jim Balent, & Dan Schaefer!
• From DC Comics's November 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #4!

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• The Atom versus Strobe!
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• From DC Comics' October 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #3!

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• The Atom returns to super-heroing!
• By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson!
• From DC Comics' September 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #2!

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• The last Ray Palmer Atom ongoing series begins!
• The destruction of Morlaidh!
• The conclusion of Sword of the Atom!
• By Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson!
• From DC Comics' August 1988 cover-dated Power of the Atom #1!

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• Soft launch of the mild old direction Post-Crisis Atom!
• Debut of new creative team of Roger Stern, Dwayne Turner & K.S. Wilson!
• From DC Comics' August 1988 cover-dated Secret Origins #29!
• Longer take with Ryan Daly on Secret Origins Podcast #29!

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Year of the Cheetah: Priscilla Rich in The Silver Age

Frank returns after a mere five months off to post an actual second episode in the same "Year of the Cheetah," featuring another guest cameo from Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace podcast's Angela! The 2019 release of Wonder Woman 1984 is looking more like 2021, so we guess Warner Brothers plans to hold out until we at least finish covering the appearances of the original incarnation of the Cheetah. Gee, we hope it doesn't hurt their pocket money in the meantime. Our coverage includes Priscilla Rich's two published stories set on Earth-One during the Silver Age of Comics, Wonder Woman #160 & 166...

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Brisco and Socrates Poole head south of the border when the Westerfield  Club orders them to recover guns stolen in a train robbery rumored to  involve John Bly and his gang. There they find that Dixie Cousins is  linked to both the Mexican general and the revolutionaries vying for the  guns, and that Pete Hutter was behind the theft. Plus, Chuck Connors talk.

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Best of DC #49, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #91-92, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #3-7, Daredevil #209, Blue Devil #2-5, Marvel Team-Up #144 & 146, Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner #1, Marvel Super Special #30, Micronauts: The New Voyages #1, Amazing Spider-Man #258, G.I. Joe a Real American Hero and more! Plus a look at movies from the first half of 1984...

— Kaiju no Kami (@kaijunokami) April 15, 2020My comic reading resume. ?? pic.twitter.com/XJHedSXOb6

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• March, 1984
• April, 1984
• May, 1984
• June, 1984
• July, 1984
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Year of the Cheetah: Priscilla Rich in The Golden Age

Frank returns after another year & a half's sabbatical to find... the Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace podcast had returned from its own year of absence. To celebrate our both running again, Angela has an opening cameo to foreshadow her continuing appearances in a series of Cheetah-centric episodes to tide you over while Wonder Woman 1984 keeps being delayed. I bet Warner Brothers wish they'd just released the sequel back in November of 2019 as originally planned. But we're more interested in prequels today, as we travel back to the earliest stories of the original incarnation of the Cheetah. We cover every one of Priscilla Rich's published Golden Age stories set on Earth-Two, including Sensation Comics #22 & 36, Wonder Woman #6, 28, 196, & 230, Comic Cavalcade #11, Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 & 9, and DC Special #3. Most especially, we survey the Wonder Woman newspaper strip from November 20, 1944-March 30,1945, the most exhaustive and involved version of the initial Cheetah saga.

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Episode #2

Professor Charles “Chuck” Coletta lends his pop culture expertise to a discussion of one of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time, Chester Gould’s Plainclothes Detective Dick Tracy. While Chuck & Frank give an historical overview, the emphasis is on the character’s stories since the 1990 Disney/Buena Vista Pictures film, including The Complete True Hearts and Tommy Guns Trilogy by John Moore & Kyle Baker, Dick Tracy: Dead or Alive by The Allreds & Rich Tommaso, and Dick Tracy Forever by Michael Avon Oeming.

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AVENGERS 🃡 AVENGERS MANSION 🃣 AVENGERS QUINJET 🃬 AUTOCRONS

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... Avengers by John Byrne & Terry Austin 🗪 with Angela of Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace Avengers Mansion by Eliot R. Brown 🗨 with Pekita Trotamundos of One Song Each B-Sides Avengers Quinjet by Eliot R. Brown 🗩 with Illegal Machine of The Coming Thing: An Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Podcast Autocrons by Paty 💬 with Diabolu Frank of ZombiCast: Duration of Dawn of the Dead * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * Wordpress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A10 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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ATTUMA 🃡 AURORA 🃣 ASTRANS 🃬 BLACK WIDOW’S STING/LINE

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... Attuma by Walt Simonson 🗪 with Ryan Daly of Midnight… The Podcasting Hour Aurora by John Byrne 🗩 with Sean Ross of Secret Wars & Beyond Podcast Astrans by Paty 🗨 with Diabolu Frank of Diana Prince: Wonder Woman Podcast Black Widow's Sting/Line 💬 with Pekita Trotamundos of One Song Each B-Sides * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * Wordpress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A9 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Phoenix: The Untold Story #1, Flash Force 2000 mini-comics, American Honda Presents Supergirl #1, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #15 and more! Plus a look at the 1982-1983 TV season...

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• January/February, 1984
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ATLANTIS 🃡 ATLANTEANS 🃣 ATTILAN, HOME OF THE INHUMANS

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including… Atlantis by Peter Gillis & Rick Parker 🗪 with Ruth and Darrin of RaD Adventures Network Atlanteans by Paty 🗨 with Kyle of KSCGSF Podcast Attilan, Home Of The Inhumans by Peter Gillis & Eliot R Brown 🗩 with Mark of Feathers and Foes: A Birds of Prey Podcast * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * WordPress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A8 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #10, What If...? #41, Amazing Spider-Man #246, The Avengers #237, Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham #1, Keebler Company Presents DC's The New Teen Titans, Hawkeye #4, Daredevil #202, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #86 & 88, Uncanny X-Men #177 & 179, Storm And Illyana: Magik #3, Green Lantern #173, The Thing #9, Hercules, Prince of Power #1, Nathaniel Dusk, Private Investigator #1, Starslayer, Grimjack, and more!

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• July-October, 1983
• November, 1983
• December, 1983
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ARCTURANS 🃡 ARNIM ZOLA 🃣 ASGARDIANS 🃬 ASGARD, HOME OF THE NORSE GODS

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... Arcturans by Paty 💬 with derekwc of Fanholes Podcast Arnim Zola by Jack Kirby 🗨 with Ryan Daly of Give Me Those Star Wars Asgardians by Ron Wilson 🗩 with Jay of Negro Justice League Asgard, Home Of The Norse Gods by Peter Gillis & Tom Orzechowski 🗪 with Caroline Wells * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * Wordpress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A7 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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ARES, GOD OF WAR 🃡 ARIEL 🃣 ARKON 🃬 ALPHA CENTAURIANS The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... Alpha Centaurians by Paty 🗬 with Ryan Daly of Power of Fishnets Ares, God Of War by Paul Smith 🗨 with Nick P. and Viktor K. of MegaSheen Ariel by Paul Smith 🗩 with the 108th Sage Arkon by Bob Budiansky 🗪 with Caroline Wells * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * Wordpress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A6 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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AQUARIAN 🃡 ARABIAN KNIGHT 🃣 ARCADE 🃬 BLACKLASH'S WHIP

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... Aquarian by Mark Gruenwald 🗨 with Shawn Marek of Worst Collection Ever Arabian Knight by Mark Gruenwald 🗩 with Ryan Daly of Secret Origins Podcast Arcade by Bob Budiansky 🗪 with Delvin “The Dark Web” Williams of The Longbox Crusade Blacklash’s Whip by Eliot R. Brown 💬 with Luke Jaconetti of Earth Destruction Directive * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * Wordpress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A5 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part. This episode includes Famous First Edition #9 (again,) DC Sampler #1 (yes, again,) and The New Teen Titans Annual #2 (finally.)

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• June, 1983
• 1983 DC Sampler #1
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ANGEL 🃡 ANNIHILUS 🃣 ANT-MAN 🃬 ACHERNONIANS 🃢 A-CHILTARIANS The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including… Angel by Brian Postman 🗨 with Mister Fixit of The Spawnometer Annihilus by Luke McDonnell 🗩 with Dr. Anj of Supergirl Comic Box Commentary Ant-Man by Brian Postman 🗪 with Hannah Achernonians by Paty 🗬 with Pekita Trotamundos of One Song Each B-Sides A-Chiltarians by Paty 💬 with Old Dude of B.O.N.D.I.N.G. Agents * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * WordPress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A4 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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Alpha Primitives 🃡 American Eagle 🃣 Anaconda 🃬 Angar The Screamer The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... Alpha Primitives by Ron Wilson 🗨 with Illegal Machine of The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast & Mister Fixit of The Spawnometer

American Eagle by Ron Wilson 🗩 with derekwc of History of Comics On Film

Anaconda by Mark Gruenwald 🗪 with Odell Abner Dracula

Angar The Screamer by Brian Postman 🗩 with Caroline Wells

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A.I.M. 🃡 Ajak 🃣 Alpha Flight 🃬 Ant-Man’s Helmet 🃠 The A’askvarii

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Ajak by Ron Wilson 🗩 with Al Sedano of Resurrections- An Adam Warlock and Thanos Podcast

Alpha Flight by John Byrne & Terry Austin 🗪 with Shawn Marek of Worst Collection Ever

Ant-Man's Helmet by Eliot R. Brown 🗨️ with Ryan Daly of Cheers Cast

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Abomination 🃡 Absorbing Man 🃣 El Águila 🃬 The Aakon

The original 1983 edition of the encyclopedic The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is discussed entry-by-entry, episode-by-episode, in a general audiences appropriate forum with Diabolu Frank and a revolving host of co-hosts, including... * 🗨 with Michael Bailey of The Fortress of Baileytude Podcasting NetworkThe Abomination by Ron Wilson * 🗩 with Dr. Anj of Supergirl Comic Box CommentaryAbsorbing Man by Ron Wilson * 🗪 with Pekita Trotamundos of One Song Each B-SidesEl Aguila by Dave Cockrum * 🗬 with Diabolu FrankThe Aakon by Paty * #MarvelHandbook * @rolledspine * Wordpress * Facebook * The Marvel Handbook episode A1 * tumblr * rolledspinepodcasts@gmail.com

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While pursuing the Swill brothers, Brisco is injured. Found by  Professor Wickwire as he toured the country with his rocket, the pair  end up in a supposed “ghost town” now inhabited solely by women.  Meanwhile, Lord Bowler has been hired by Socrates Poole for the  Westerfield Club to track down and recover a “mobile battle wagon,”  stolen from the government by the Swill’s Cousin Ed. Also this episode:  Bob the Goon, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Key West, and Stranger Things 3!

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part. This episode includes Captain America #281 & 283, Avengers #231, U.S. 1 #1, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #11, Batman #359, Spider-Woman #50, DC Comics' The New Teen Titans in cooperation with The President's Drug Awareness Campaign #2, Power Man and Iron Fist #193, Alpha Flight #1, All-Star Squadron #24, and The Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior #3.

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part. This episode includes World's Finest Comics #289-290, Captain America #280, Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #14, Dazzler #26, Doctor Strange #58, Omega Men #1, DC Comics' The New Teen Titans in cooperation with The President's Drug Awareness Campaign #1, Obnoxio the Clown #1, Starslayer #6, Uncanny X-Men #168, and Marvel Team-Up #128.

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part. This episode offers a look at my choice and dicey cuts from late '82, including Masters of the Universe #1-2, Blackhawk #252, Blade Runner #1-2, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #76, DC Comics Presents #55 and The Brave and the Bold #196.

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• Fall-Winter, 1982
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JLMay 2019-- Blackest Night 10th Anniversary Podcast Crossover Event

Frank always gets extra with #JLMay, so this first of several tie-in episodes covers three years worth of often extraneous Martian Manhunter material leading to his murder and the aftermath. Series referenced include Infinite Crisis, Amazons Attack, Checkmate, Countdown, Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special, Justice League of America Wedding Special, The Sinestro Corps War, Teen Titans, Black Adam: The Dark Age, Salvation Run, Catwoman, Final Crisis: Requiem, Faces of Evil: Prometheus, Justice League: Cry for Justice, & Blackest Night! From here follow JLMay 2016 to these fantastic podcasts! Each will cover a different issue of SILVER AGE and each will come out in May! And don’t forget to use the hashtag #JLMay2019 when discussing on social media!

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

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This special "zero" episode covers comics-related material from my earliest years, before I was technically a collector, including runs of Strange Tales, Doctor Strange, Warlock, Tomb of Dracula, Power Records, Marvel Premiere, Captain Marvel, The Adventures of the Big Boy, and the single issues Howard the Duck #2, Green Lantern/Green Arrow #84, Stalker #1, Logan's Run #1, Astonishing Tales #23, Famous First Edition #C-61, The Hands of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu #46, Weird Worlds #8, Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk in "The Great Rodeo Robbery", Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Woman in "The Mystery Of The Power Crown", TSR-80 Computer Whiz Kids: The Computer Trap, Captain America #207, and Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty.

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Amazing Heroes

Frank begins a new(ish) solo(ish) podcast that’s basically DC Bloodlines but with non-DC/Marvel/Image super-heroes. First up is the African-American collective Ania (Ah-Knee-Ah, despite repeated mispronunciations on the episode,) the Milestone Media of the indie comics scene (but they would not appreciate that description!)

Copious archival interview material spotlights Omega 7 Comics’ Alonzo Washington & Tony Jappa on Original Man, Omega Man, Darkforce & The Mighty Ace; Africa Rising’s Eric Griffin on Ebony Warrior; Dark Zulu Lies Comics’ Nabile Hage on Zwanna, Son of Zulu; and U.P. Comics’ Roosevelt Pitt Jr. on Purge; plus Afrocentric Comic Books’ Heru, Son of Ausar by Roger Barnes.

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Amazing Heroes Interviews

Interviews conducted at the now defunct Space City Comic Con in Houston, Texas on ‎Sunday, ‎July ‎25, ‎2015. Focus of material was intended for the Martian Manhunter 60th Anniversary Special, but tangents were worthy of a listen and unearthed from five hours of combined material. The interviews have been edited for time, content, consistency and quality.

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Brisco and Lord Bowler both track John Bly to Poker Flats, where  Brisco’s childhood partner, Deputy Donovan, is sheriff. While there,  Brisco meets a man, Professor Coles, who has been studying the Orb for a  long time and knows its secrets. They discover that Bly is obsessed  with locating a mysterious gold metallic orb with special powers – and  he will use and kill anyone to find it.

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The world’s favorite western/sci-fi/comedy/action cult hit rides again on its 25th anniversary! Brisco County Jr. (Bruce Campbell) is a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies’ man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father (R. Lee Ermey)! Hired by the attorney of a group of powerful robber barons to track down and apprehend the infamous John Bly (Billy Drago) and his gang, Brisco is also in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks – including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn’t know he’s a horse – fight for justice in the way, way, way-out Weird West. The debut episode features Christian Clemenson as lawyer Socrates Poole, Julius Carry as the rival tracker Lord Bowler, and the beloved television great John Astin as Professor Wickwire! It’s Indiana Jones meets James West, so put your boots in your stirrups, your tongue in your cheek and join the fun!

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Neron & The Underworld

On our newest episode and latest entry into a social media crossover, Best Event Ever 2018, Martian Manhunter traverses Heaven and Hell to confront the Faustian evil of Neron, the heretical arch-cherub Asmodel, and is introduced to the fallen angel Zauriel. We cover Underworld Unleashed #1-3 (1995,) Justice League Task Force #30, The Flash #127-129 (1999), Rogues Gallery, JLA #6-7 (1997), 35 (1999), & 60 (2002), and JLA: Paradise Lost, featuring creators including Mark Waid, Mark Millar, Christopher Priest, J.M. DeMatteis, Howard Porter, Angel Olivetti and more (one of whom has a brief cameo appearance here.) We also look at the 1995 card set SkyBox DC Villains: Dark Judgment and other related DC offerings.

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The Cheetah Unleashed: Barbara Minerva in the Post-Crisis DC Universe

rank returns after a year's sabbatical to find... most of the other Amazing Amazon comics podcasters have podfaded and the movie sequel pushed back seven months to 2020? Perhaps now more than ever, the world is waiting for a Barbara Minerva / The Cheetah III podcast! This episode covers nearly every Cheetah story from 1986-2011, from her debut to her origin and overall career prior to the New 52 reboot! Included is Underworld Unleashed, a well regarded event mini-series from 1995, which a group of bloggers/podcasters join us in exploring for a crossover all our own!

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Podcast- Martian Manhunter: Rebirth

Audio adaptation of a couple of blog posts with my hot takes on the newly announced 2018 Martian Manhunter maxi-series (scheduled to run as long as the previous so-called "ongoing series") by Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo.  We enjoy dialogue on the red planet, so here are our non-telepathic contact options:

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Podcast- Dial H For Hero: Silver Age Part Two (1967-2000)

This episode wraps our belated coverage of JLMay2018 with the second  halves of both the Silver Age event and Robby Reed's adventures in House of Mystery,  as well as following the H-Dial across several additional decades of  wielders. Writer Mark Waid makes a couple of cameo appearances, as  well...

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Podcast- JLMay 2018: Silver Age Part One (2000)

JLMay 2018-- Silver Age (2000) Podcast Crossover Event

Agamemno reaches Earth as the incredible event begins! Gathering some of the JLA's greatest foes --- Lex Luthor, Sinestro, the Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Element, Dr. Light, Chronos, Black Manta, and Felix Faust --- to help him in his plan to conquer the Earth, Agamemno switches the minds of the villains with those of their nemeses! Can the heroes foil the plot before the would-be conqueror prevails? You asked for it-- and you got it! A STAGGERING SUPER STRUGGLE stretching across this month's DC COMICS! Dig what's Coming!

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey] noun 1. a summing up; summary. 2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues: books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally self-indulgent on my part. This episode offers a look at my scant purchases sometimes around the summer of '82, including Batman Annual #8, Atari Force #1, 3, & 5, and a few others, as well as Remco action figures and various kid stuff.

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• Comic Resume: Anj's Origins
• Anj's Resume Pt 2: From Fan To Collector
• Siskoid's Comics Recollected
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After nearly a year since the last episode... we're still doing random one-off spotlights rather than actually talking about the Bloodlines event. Richard Drakunovski was a bullied white boy who trained to become a world class martial artist under the Asian O-Sensei and/or an African-American man named Benjamin Stanley and/or Ben Turner, depending on what continuity we're talking about. This is all before we try to address Lady Shiva and her damsel-in-distress sister you probably never heard of. Set the Wayback Machine back to 1975 for our old coverage of Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter #1, #2 & #3 and do a deeper dive on that last one by following along at Scans Daily. We'll also cover #4, and then 2004's Richard Dragon #1-6.

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Amazing Heroes Interviews

Interview conducted with his holiness Jim Starlin at NTX Comic Book Show in Irving, Texas on Sunday, February 11, 2018. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality. Additional extensive context discussion between Diabolu Frank & Mister Fixit also edited into the episode.

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• 06:47 Painting The Metamorphosis Odyssey & drawing Dreadstar
• 10:31 Dreadstar & Company cast
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The Two Gems Panel at North Texas Comic Book Show 2018

Amazing Heroes Interviews

Recorded live at the Irving Convention Center on February 11, 2018. Edited for clarity. Topics include Adam Warlock, Thanos, Bronze Age Marvel Comics, and film adaptations.

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Scary Monsters featuring Chris Claremont (2003)

This episode, we look at the 2003 six issue mini-series JLA: Scary Monsters by Chris Claremont & Josh Hood, with a brief interview segment with the writer following the story synopsis.

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Pekita Trotamundos joins Frank to discuss Angela Robinson's new film  about Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth,  and their extended family member Olive Byrne (as portrayed by Luke  Evans, Rebecca Hall & Bella Heathcote.) We also look deeper into the  factual history of the Amazing Amazon's creation and charges of  historical inaccuracy leveled against the docudrama.

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Noble Pyrates All

This episode, Frank covers the first major arc of the William Messner-Loebs run, "Exile in Space," which ran in Wonder Woman vol. 2 (1987 series) #66-71 (1992-1993.) Since nobody actually refers  to the "Space Pirates" story by that name, we'll use the story title  from #69 instead. This is one of Frank's favorite legends of the Amazing  Amazon, featuring art by Paris Cullins and a host of inkers, with an  especially epic series of Brian Bolland covers. This time, the show will  run without commercial interruption.

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Whom Gods Destroy featuring Chris Claremont

This episode, we look at a pair of the very few Elseworlds out-of-continuity "imaginary stories" with Wonder Woman as a billed star. First we adapt previous coverage of 2003's The Blue Amazon one-shot special by Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier with art by Ted McKeever. The core of the episode is a fresh look at 1996's Superman/Wonder Woman: Whom Gods Destroy prestige format 4-issue mini-series by Chris Claremont, Dusty Abell and Drew Geraci. As a special bonus, coverage includes excerpts from a 2016 interview with the writer discussing this project.

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The Darkness Within (1992)

Eclipso and The White Magician are the focus of our newest episode and latest entry into a social media crossover, Best Event Ever 2017. Besides the William Messner-Loebs scripted Wonder Woman Annual #3, we also see Princess Diana in Justice League America Annual #6, The Adventures of Superman Annual #4, and Eclipso: The Darkness Within #2 plus the Justice League cartoon series episode "Eclipsed" from 2003. As a service to the event, we also look at the Eclipso-only stories from Deathstroke the Terminator Annual #1, The New Titans Annual #8, and of all things, Ambush Bug Nothing Special #1.

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The show returns as part of a multi-blog/podcast crossover covering the 1992 DC Annual event Eclipso: The Darkness Within by offering a detailed account of the first three decades of the villain's career derived from numerous print and online sources. Created by Bob Haney and Lee Elias in 1963, Eclipso appeared in House of Secrets for 19 issues before moving on to guest roles in Justice League of America, Metal Men, Green Lantern, Adventure Comics, Outsiders, The Phantom Stranger and more! See the misadventures of Bruce Gordon, Mona & Simon Bennett as they combat the super-villain!

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Spirit of Truth & Justice (2001-2007)

JLMay 2017-- The Justice maxi-series Podcast Crossover Event is over, but Frank offers a bitter little pill of an epilogue as he discusses Alex Ross' Wonder Woman work in Kingdom Come along with synopses of Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth (2001) and Justice (2005-2007).

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Amazing Heroes Interviews

Interview conducted with esteemed comic book scripter and screenwriter James Dale Robinson at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on May 14, 2017. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality.

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• 06:33 Wildstorm Homage
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• 24:27 Heroes Reborn Captain America
• 27:28 Airboy & the future

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JLMay 2017: Justice & Liberty

JLMay 2017-- The Justice maxi-series (2006) Podcast Crossover Event reaches chapter three, as Diabolu Frank offers a dramatic reading, which carries over into coverage of JLA: Secret Origins (2002), JLA: Liberty and Justice (2003), a smidge of Kingdom Come and more!

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Interview conducted with treasured comic book scripter and screenwriter John Marc DeMatteis at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on May 24, 2015. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality.

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Podcast-- Operation: Cheetah (1992)

Finally, we're talking about the William Messner-Loebs run on Wonder Woman, the host's favorite series of Amazing Amazon adventures! Unfortunately, the transition out of George Pérez's long and well regarded run isn't the smoothest. We chart some of the bumps along the way from War of the Gods to Wonder Woman Special #1 & Wonder Woman (Vol. 2) #63. Bonus interview material read from Amazing Heroes #197 featuring Loebs, artist Jill Thompson, and editors Tom Peyer & Dan Thorsland discussing thoughts early in the run, story plans that never came about, and more!

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Podcast: Who is Wonder Woman? (2006-2007)

This episode we look at the first four issues and only annual from the 2006 volume of Wonder Woman, written by film co-screenwriter Allan Heinberg and drawn by Terry & Rachel Dodson. Introducing Agent Diana Prince of the Department of Metahuman Affairs and featuring every Wonger Girl, as well as a slew of other heroes in cameos. For Martin Gray's Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special #1 review, visit TOO DANGEROUS FOR A GIRL!

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• Wonder Woman #1 (August, 2006)
• Wonder Woman #2 (September, 2006)
• Wonder Woman #3 (October, 2006)
• Wonder Woman #4 (February, 2007)
• Wonder Woman Annual #1 (2007)
• “Backstory” (2007)
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Bloodlines: Outbreak is nearly over! Before the first quarter of the event closes, we meet ex-S.W.A.T. officer Kelvin Mao in his insectoid exoskeleton, and a new blond Batman who is never positively identified throughout the story (with the reasons for his replacement only alluded to.) Guess that means we should also look at the Batman: Sword of Azrael mini-series and do an overview of Knightfall/Knightquest/KnightsEnd to better understand what Jean-Paul Valley is doing here. I once did a wine tasting tour in the Jean-Paul Valley. That's a joke I now regret because it conjures imagery I hadn't considered before making it. Where was I again? These were not engaging stories, so I keep getting distracted, but you can follow along with 1993's Batman Annual #17 at Scans Daily and get a deeper dive on the Azrael mini-series at NOT BLOG X.

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Podcast: Justice League Action upon The Transconsciousness Articulator

This time we revisit the Joe Kelly/ChrisCross issues of JLA #s 83 (September, 2003) and 90 (January, 2004) covering fantasy stories involving the World's Finest Trinity versus ~~George Bush~~ President Lex Luthor, as well as Diana and Bruce considering the possibility of a romantic relationship. It's supposed to be a Martian device facilitating this, but it sure sounds like more of a Paradise Island or Kryptonian sort of thing. Then, Frank dishes on the first ten episodes of the new Cartoon Network show Justice League Action. Finally, your comments are addressed, plus we run promos for Justice League Universe Podcast, The All-Star Comics Review Podcast, and the latest podcast about Wonder Woman, Lasso of Truth (not to be confused with the long running non-Amazonian podcast of nearly the same name.)

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The ancient immortal African mystic Doctor Mist was introduced in a cameo on the last page of 1978's The Super Friends #12 before continuing into appearances in The Super Friends #13 & 45-46 before officially forming the Global Guardians in DC Comics Presents #46. We cover these comics to varying degrees, but our primary focus is the supposed true story of "Nommo," appended to tales starring Zatara and Zatanna. Is Dr. Mist one of the most powerful and important figures in the history of the DC Universe, or a sad and lonely fraud? You decide, and you can follow along with our reading of 1988's Secret Origins #27 at The Secret Origins Podcast.

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Podcast: The Mystery of Nubia

By all indications, 2017 needs a podcast dedicated to Queen Hippolyta's "second," "other," "dark" daughter who debuted on November 7, 1972 in Wonder Woman #204, so we're "Introducing Nubia!" The soul sister of the Amazing Amazon went on to appearances in Wonder Woman #205-206, including a solo back-up story, plus cameos in Supergirl #9 and The Super Friends #25 before vanishing from comics entirely for twenty years (and actually closer to a quarter century if you discount a single page of one of those comics.) Despite barely escaping 1973 in comics, Nubia managed to make appearances on television and in toy form when that was an extremely rare accomplishment, and her origin has a massive impact on Wonder Woman's own. Nubia was a contender, and we argue that she still matters 45 years later on this episode!

Nubia is one of the least heralded but most valuable creations of Robert Kanigher, and possibly his single most important contribution across twenty years as a writer/editor of the Amazing Amazon (depending on how much credit you extend him on Wonder Girl.) The world is still waiting for Nubia to be fully embraced as a key component of Amazonian lore! For more on Nubia, check out my 2012 article on her, newly revised with fresh scans to replace the busted embeds Comicvine left me with.

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After slipping to an unintentional monthly schedule with some uncomfortable elements and unfortunate timing, the DC Bloodlines Podcast returns for a thirteenth episode set on breaking its unlucky streak (and nearly broke Diabolu Frank with all the editing it required.) In this novel edition, special guest Pekita Trotamundos helps produce a two-person radio drama in the style of ABC-TV's 1979 Saturday morning favorite, The World's Greatest Super Friends. This is meant to reflect the early appearances of Brazil's premier super-heroine in the DC Universe, Beatriz da Costa, originally known as The Green Fury! Later known as Fire, she was created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon for the comic book tie-in Super Friends #25, cover-dated October, 1979. After that brief cameo battling Superman, The Green Fury went on to appear in issues #42-44, with her origin finally revealed in a full length starring role in the series' final issue, the August 1981 cover-dated #47. Foregoing the usually biting commentary and contemporary music soundtrack, this episode is a loose adaptation of these stories featuring scores culled from numerous cartoon favorites of the era. However, there is a political subtext that's hard to miss. For a peek at the early Beatriz da Costa in action, here's a look at sample pages from The Super Friends #43 at Scans_Daily.

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Podcast: DC's Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special (2016)

Along his way to covering DC Comics' special issue released to commemorate the Amazing Amazon's three-quarters of a century in action, Diabolu Frank lost his way and stumbled into so many outtakes from the 75 Birthdays-- The Secret Origins of Wonder Woman episode recording sessions that it became a second special its own self.

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This episode looks at Nik Mayak, a New Blood with extraordinary body regeneration powers, supplemented by great agility and uncanny accuracy with blowing blades. Debuting in 1993's Green Lantern Annual #2, we give an overview of the rest of his career in Eclipso Annual #1 & Bloodbath #1-2, the Blood Pack mini-series, Guy Gardner: Warrior #29 & 39, Deathstroke the Terminator #49, Infinite Crisis #7, Final Crisis: Superman Beyond 3D #1-2, and finally 2010's Adventure Comics #4-5. You can follow along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily.

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The Guardians of the Universe chose Hal Jordan to be their Emerald Gladiator for Space Sector 2814, wielder of a Power Ring that could create jade energy constructs limited only by the bearer's willpower and a necessary impurity that rendered it ineffective against anything colored yellow. However, the day would come when Hal Jordan would falter, and on that day his successor would rise to command the energies derived from the Master Power Battery on Oa, and that man's name was John Stewart...

This episode, we look at the 1970s adventures of Neil Adams' & Denny O’Neil's Green Lantern John Stewart, DC Comics's first African-American super-hero (unless you count Vykin the Black or Black Racer, which virtually nobody does, despite Jack Kirby publishing them nearly a year earlier.) Also, an obligatory history of that jerk Jordan, mostly cribbed from Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. You can follow along with our reading at Scans_Daily. Also, check out the Neal Adams interview at Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood.

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Podcast: The Ironically Iconic Wonder Woman

This episode, Frank offers a rebuttal to Brigit McCone's "Unpopular Opinions" week article for the site B**** Flicks,  which took the character of Wonder Woman to task for the "revolutionary  banalities" of her "male-authored feminism," especially within the  context of the 1970s TV show.

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"He was a mystery to himself! Why-- young Adam Blake wanted to know-- was he so different from other people? How did it happen that there was no one else like him in the whole wide world? Where did he really come from? Who was he? All these questions which might have unsettled an ordinary mind-- only served to whet the brain and steel the mettle of the extraordinary youth who, without knowing it, was fated to fulfill a grand and awe-inspiring destiny on Earth-- as Captain Comet-- First Man of the Future!"

This episode, we explore comics' first mutant super-hero, a prototype from the Atomic Age who was a mental marvel and physical dynamo! Explore his Strange Adventures from the June 1951 cover-dated ninth issue through the twelfth, plus comparisons to 1987's Secret Origins Annual #1. You can follow along with our reading at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine.

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Podcast: The Second Coming of Robert Kanigher

This episode we look at the brief return of writer/editor Robert Kanigher to the Wonder Woman series following a campaign by Gloria Steinem to return the Amazing Amazon to her roots. Kanigher decided what that meant was that he could recycle his own decades old scripts, so we get to simultaneously cover 1973's Wonder Woman #207-208, but also the original presentations from Wonder Woman #37 (September-October 1949) #33 (January-February 1949) and #55 (September-October 1952) of "The Riddle Of The Chinese Mummy Case!" "The Four Dooms" and "The Chessmen of Doom" by Robert Kanigher, Harry G. Peter, Ric Estrada & Vince Colletta.

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This episode looks at the New Blood Myriad and the Cyborg Superman, neither of whom debuted in 1993's Superman Annual #5 (the only instance of that occurring in the Bloodlines annual event that was specifically created to introduce new characters.) Getting to know Hank Henshaw means going back to 1990 to cover Superman #42, Adventures of Superman #465 and especially Adventures of Superman #466, followed by Sasha Green's first (and technically last) appearance in Superman #77. Next we get to the actual story "Myriad!" followed by her cameo in Bloodbath Special #2 and her quasi-posthumous mentions in 1994's Action Comics #696 & 700 plus 1997's Superman: The Man of Tomorrow #7. Finally, an overview of Frank's reading of Superman comics overall, as well as the career of Hank Henshaw specifically. This one gets political, so if you're still hypersensitive about the concept of President Trump, take heed. Bonus: Our podcast's debut appearance of the most successful New Blood, Hitman! You can follow along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily.

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Podcast: The 2016 Wonder Woman Trailers

This episode Frank looks at the teaser and first full trailers released for the 2017 feature film starring Gal Gadot.

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Finally, the DC Bloodlines Podcast reveals its greater scope than just one 1993 event, but rather a mandate to cover the under-served DCU by looking at the earliest published (and especially the unpublished) comics of what was intended to be the first super-heroine series for a character of African decent, Mari McCabe: The Vixen! We start with the aborted 1978 first issue created by Gerry Conway & Bob Oksner from the second Xeroxed collection of "Cancelled Comic Cavalcade" and the rejected early '80s "The Power Squad" proposal before her accessible comics debut in 1981's Action Comics #521 and her second team-up with Superman in 1984's DC Comics Presents #68, plus supplemental material from Back Issue Magazine #40!

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Podcast: 75 Birthdays-- The Secret Origins of Wonder Woman

October 25, 2016 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the release date for All-American Publications' All Star Comics #8, which featured the story "Introducing Wonder Woman" by her creators William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter in her comics debut! In acknowledgement, your regular host Diabolu Frank covers a variety of different interpretations of Princess Diana of Paradise Island's origin stories from Sensation Comics #1 (1942), Wonder Woman #1 (1942), Wonder Woman #23 (1947), Wonder Woman #45 (1951), Wonder Woman #98 (1958), Wonder Woman #105 (1959), DC Special Series #19 (1979), Wonder Woman #1 (1987), and Secret Origins #6 (2014)! To break up all that information dumping and more treat this momentous occasion as a true celebration, we've also enlisted a slew of notable co-anchors to discuss a bunch of fun, accessible topics relevant to new and old fans of the Amazon Princess! Hola!

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Sigh. It's time to deal with Courtney Mason, the heroine of The New Titans Annual #9 and her own sixteen issue series, Anima (we cover the first two issues.) Created by novelists Elizabeth Hand  & Paul Witcover, Anima was one of the highest profile and powerful  New Bloods, but also one of the most painful to actually read. Hope the  riot grrrl soundtrack helps us get through this one. You can follow  along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily.

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The (finally bi-weekly as originally intended) podcast (not really) dedicated to DC's New Bloods returns (for a second "season" of indefinite length after a one-off in Spring 2015 & four episodes in April)! We're (actually only one person involved) back with a show that was 100% completed on May ‎15th but left on the shelf for nearly five months because Frank got distracted by the next shiny object (specifically, four Martian Manhunter podcasts for a JLA: Year One crossover rather belatedly advertised within.) But hey, it's funner and longer than usual with lots of goofy voices and bad acting processed through lame filters!

Our subject is Nick Kovak, one of the most "successful" (highly relative usage here) of the New Bloods as the stealth vigilante with vision powers, Argus! As an advantageous byproduct of his mostly appearing in Flash comics written by his co-creator Mark Waid during the arguable heyday of Wally West's run, we'll get to touch on some actual well liked comics for a change! This episode covers The Flash Annual #6, spotlight segments from Bloodbath Special #2, & Flash #86 (with notes related to #92-100, the introduction of Impulse and the "Terminal Velocity" arc.) Oh, and a brief nod to the world's most famous French-Canadian, in honor of Bass & Siskoid. You can follow along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily.

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Podcast: A Final Adventure of Wonder Woman (1985)

This episode finally, irrevocably breaks from its previous incarnation as a podcast! A seasonal/bi-annual show no more! No longer only coming out only when an issue of Wonder Woman '77 corresponds with the episode number! This edition, we cover an entire story arc, encompassing the entire (very brief) run of Wonder Woman's first female writer, Mindy Newell! That's "Tropidor Heat" & "A World in Chaos!" & " To Everything a Season..." from Wonder Woman #326-328 (July-December, 1985) plus the concluding 48-page story of the original volume, "Of Gods and Men," written by Gerry Conway! Don Heck draws most of this swan song to the Pre-Crisis Amazing Amazon, with a little help from Pablo Marcos. We also read excerpts from magazine articles and letters columns contemporaneous to the end of this era, and look forward to the next, which signals the changes coming to this show in celebration of the 75th anniversary year!

In the meantime, do check out Wonder Woman: Warrior for Peace: A podcast that explores the history of Wonder Woman on page and screen. It's currently five episodes deep chronologically covering the Golden Age, Iron Age, New 52, and 1970s TV show!

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Comics Bulletin & Alex Ross on the Cusp of J’onn J’onzz’s 61st Anniversary

On October 8, 2014, the website Comics Bulletin published a discussion between Bryan Stroud and the famous painter of Marvels and Kingdom Come in the article Alex Ross Talks About the Martian Manhunter on the Cusp of J’onn J’onzz’s 60th Anniversary. Nearly two years later, with the Alien Atlas' next birthday imminent and with the help of an online text-to-audio program, Diabolu Frank joins their conversation...

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Podcast- Adjudicating J'Onn J'Onzz (ComicsVerse v Martian Manhunter)

The website Comicsverse, "your source for in-depth comics analysis" very very briefly ran a series of podcasts (exactly two to date, the last one in January) under the banner "Best Underrated Characters in Comics." Mind, this is out of 80 shows in total, and there've been 19 since, so perhaps they just abandoned the premise. I tend to think that's for the best, since I find the title misleads one into thinking they're going to select a character they find deserving of attention they haven't received and tell you why they're boss.

Unfortunately, in the episodes shining a white hot interrogation lamp on two heroes I'm very fond of, the shows instead felt like inquisitions to determine whether they are in fact underrated, or just poo (with the moderator's thumb on the scale weighing toward poo in both cases.) One was Doctor Strange, and you should know by the subject of this blog who the other was...

Join me for a special feature length episode with Diabolu Frank for the defense in the case of ComicsVerseS the Manhunter from Mars, but you should lead with the prosecution's case before you allow me to retort! Superman, Batman, Aquaman, and the rest of the Justice League will be called into question and occasionally treated as hostile witnesses as part of The Trial of the ~~Incredible Hulk~~ Sleuth from Outer Space!

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]

noun

1. a summing up; summary.

2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike's Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a "work history" of my fandom. In this second edition, I cover some more general books I had lying around before I actively collected comics, then zero in on purchases made roughly between March-May of 1982. I'm also recycling some years old lo-fi audio recorded when I was doing these things as YouTube videos, so please forgive the mess.

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• March-May, 1982
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Podcast: Wonder Woman '77 Special #3

The currently but not indefinitely bi-annual Diana Prince Wonder Woman podcast returns to look at the third edition of the Wonder Woman '77 Special, as well as the February, 1978 cover-dated Wonder Woman Vol. 37 #240 by Conway & Delbo as a springboard for discussing the Amazing Amazon's long but unrecognized military career in observance of Independence Day 2016!

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]

noun

1. a summing up; summary.

2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a “work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively) new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we call back issues, books bought long after their publication date. Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby” spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life (eventually outpacing squalor and competing neurosis.) It’s part personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly a total wank on my part.

The first episode of the podcast version of my old short-lived 2011 blog series re-purposes and re-edits the audio from the even shorter-lived 2013 YouTube (barely) video adaptations of same, along with supplemental material I recorded over a year ago that got shelved when I realized that doing this wouldn’t be the effortless space-filling regurgitation I’d hoped for as a stopgap while sweating over doing other podcasts. The episode covers my earliest off the rack purchases in January-February of 1982, as well as discussing a bunch of the comics that had passed through my hands before this youthful indiscretion became a full on addiction.

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• January, 1982
• February, 1982
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Podcast- John Ostrander & Mark Verheiden at Comicpalooza 2016

Straight out of Comicpalooza - Texas' Largest Comic & Pop Culture Event comes new interviews with screenwriter/producer Mark Verheiden discussing his work on J'Onn J'Onzz and Zook in Secret Origins and Superman/Batman, then writer John Ostrander covering his three year run on the 1998 Martian Manhunter ongoing series.

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Podcast- JLA: Day Zero (1994)

The Manhunter from Mars offers a final supplemental postscript to JLMay-- The JLA: Year One Podcast Crossover Event! Think of it as JuneLA, or maybe a JLMepilogue. In the third edition of JLA: Day One, Diabolu Frank discusses the controversial Zero Hour retcon of Triumph as a founding member of the Justice League, alongside the Post-Crisis Five and Superman, in Justice League America #92 (September, 1994)! Just keep telling yourself it never happened, because it never did, right from the beginning! In fact, that was kind of the whole point! Bookending that topic are excerpts from Chase #6 (July, 1998) and Martian Manhunter #17 (April, 2000) covering the retroactive continuity predecessors to the JLA, the Justice Experience and their mysterious member Bronze Wraith...

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Podcast- JLMay (1998)

JLMay-- The JLA: Year One Podcast Crossover Event finally reaches  our humble blog full force! Since everyone else partnered up to cover  their chapters of the maxi-series, Diabolu Frank opted to call in his  super buddies at Rolled Spine Podcasts for a sort of hybrid show! Illegal Machine and Pekita Trotamundos lend  their voices to a radio play abridged adaptation of the tenth issue,  while their fellow Mister Fixit sticks around afterward to talk for a  bit about the Justice League of America!

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Podcast- JLA: Day Minus-One (1977)

The Manhunter from Mars offers a supplement to JLMay-- The JLA: Year One Podcast Crossover Event! In the second edition of JLA: Day One Diabolu Frank discusses his (and apparently Comics Should Be Good's Brian Cronin's) favorite origin story for the team from Justice League of America #144 (July, 1977)! Another very important tale of the Sleuth from Outer Space, "The Origin of the Justice League - Minus One!" offers a prequel to the better known Silver Age story that firmly grounds the team (but especially J'onn J'onzz) in the paranoid 1950s McCarthy era America! This setting and the influence of the Steve Englehart/Dick Dillon story have permeated the Alien Atlas' modern interpretation, arguably having more impact on how the character is perceived by fans today than any comic that preceded it!

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Podcast- JLA: Day One (1961)

The Manhunter from Mars offers a supplement to JLMay-- The JLA: Year One Podcast Crossover Event! In the first edition of JLA: Day One (1961) Diabolu Frank discusses one of the single most important tales of the  Sleuth from Outer Space, "The Unmasking of J'Onn J'Onzz," the solo story  that made it possible for the Alien Atlas to join the JLA! We also look  at the first version of the team's origin from Justice League of America #9 (February, 1962) with extensive critical commentary on the early years of the team and key revisions such as 1988's Secret Origins #32!

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Two flavors of vigilante are covered on this episode: the brutal anti-heroine Pagan (Marian Mercer, of Batman #479) and the incompetent New Blood civic pridester Joe ~~Pubic~~ Public (Nobody Cares, Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #1,) neither of whom had much of a career to speak of. Also, this is the only Bloodlines story featuring Bruce Wayne before he had to file a lawsuit against an unlicensed chiropractor from Santa Prisca. You can follow along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily.

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STEEL YOURSELF! Here is the first in what will become a recurring instance of bifurcated broadcasting, as we not only look at the prickly New Blood known as Edge, but also the rookie super-hero who hosted Tom O'Brien's debut in Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #2, Iron John! Well, you might not remember that short lived moniker, but surely you know Dr. John Henry Irons, the armored engineer who stood as part of the titular quartet from the epic storyline "Reign of the Supermen" who briefly replaced the Last Son of Krypton following his presumed death at the bony hands of Doomsday. We'll cover Steel's earliest career from his cameo in Adventures of Superman #500 through his star turn in Superman: The Man of Steel #22-24, as well as an overview of his role in the DC Universe. You can follow along with our reading of the annual at Scans Daily.

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Still not guaranteeing this show as a weekly, but since I have a bunch of Bloodlines already about wrapped and no time to work on any other Rolled Spine Podcasts, you get this episode less than a week after the last (a huge improvement on the previous "annual" schedule.) The coverage of the 1993 event begins in earnest with Lobo Annual #1, featuring the debut of Layla, the tougher than nails L.E.G.I.O.N. agent with 'tude to spare! Not only can you follow along with most of her origin story via Scans Daily, but also her key appearance in Lobo's Big Babe Spring Break Special. Frank didn't find the latter until locking down this episode, and it both completely contradicted a chunk of your host's assessment of Layla's career and reaffirmed that the character's brief history is probably too toxic for to be of much concern anyway.

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Almost a year after our secret trial episode during Super Blog Team-Up #6, The DC Bloodlines Podcast begins in earnest during another blog/podcast crossover, #BestEventEver, devoted to the 1993 DC Comics annuals. In that vein, Diabolu Frank spends this episode discussing the history of comic book annuals and the direct sales market leading to The Chromium Age, including "Doomsday" "Knightfall" & "The Clone Saga," before circling in on the 1993 character generating spectacles at DC and Marvel Comics. Going forward, we'll look at each of the New Blood characters approximately but not always exactly according to their order of appearance, as well as the (sometimes barely) more established super-people they're paired with on either a weekly or biweekly basis (I'm keeping my options open.) Plus, we'll keep an eye on DC's 2016 revival mini-series as that comes out...

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Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1957

After nearly a year, you'd be forgiven for thinking we were covering our retrospective of John Jones' publication history in real time. Blame our coverage of the current but increasingly finite ongoing Martian Manhunter ~~maxi-~~series? 1957 offers a lot of repeats with slight variations on John Jones stories, but also the debuts of pretty probationary policewoman Diane Meade and TOR, Robot Criminal from Mars! Also, we look at the Sleuth from Outer Space's international publication history, which started quite early in Mexico and Australia, the latter proving the Martian Detective his first ever cover appearance (a phenomena well known to Aquaman, who turned up on lots of foreign editions in original illustrations before fronting a book in his native country.) Also, ads for our friend podcasts, Pulp 2 Pixel's Secret Sagas of the Multiverse and Count Drunkula's The Power of Fishnets. Please stick around to rank the Detective Comics stories from 1955-1957...

• Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1955
• Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1956
• Patrolwoman Diane Meade Commission by Marcio Takara
• TOR, the Robot Criminal of Mars Commission by Sam Lotfi

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter #6 (2016)

Frank summarizes and critiques the sixth issue of the "DC You" Martian Manhunter series by Rob Williams and Eddy Barrows, plus we catch up on a backlog of mail.

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter's 60th Anniversary Special Part Two (1993-2016)

New York Times Program Synopsis:

A special which pays tribute to The Manhunter from Mars, the least popular co-founder of the Justice League of America and one of the greatest hanger-on associates to pop culture heroes of all time. The special interweaves memorable moments from J'onn J'onzz's television series, cartoons and comics highlighting his super powers, secret identity, acts of heroism, and personal life. Also included are comically inept text-to-audio vignettes featuring unrecorded guest stars discussing the best super-hero ever of Middletown, U.S.A.

• 00:01:38 Prelude: My Name is J'Onn J'Onzz
• 00:06:50 Reevaluating the Martian Manhunter with Grant Morrison
• 00:09:54 Justice League Task Force with Peter David
• 00:16:41 JLA with Grant Morrison, Howard Porter & Kevin Smith
• 00:30:20 Martian Manhunter solo series with John Ostrander
• 00:36:28 Elseworlds with Howard Chaykin, Darwyn Cooke & Mark Waid
• 00:47:47 Martian Marvel Media with Carlo Barberi, J. M. DeMatteis, Carl Lumbly, Phil Morris, Bruce Timm & Stan Berkowitz
• 01:02:35 Bold New Directions with A. J. Lieberman, Paul Cornell, & Matt Kindt
• 01:14:39 Commercial Interruption featuring rolled spine podcast & The Fire and Water Podcast Network
• 01:18:13 The Friends & Enemies of Martian Manhunter featuring Peter David, Phil Morris, Jim Starlin, David Harewood, Geoff Johns & Mike Carlin
• 01:55:17 Stay Tuned following messages from LanternCast, The Quarter Bin Podcast, Warlord Worlds, Pulp 2 Pixel Podcasts, Comic Reflections, King-Size Comics Giant-Size Fun
• 02:01:10 60th Birthday Party with Rob Williams, Geoff Johns & Mike Carlin
• 02:14:27 Supergirl with David Harewood, Chyler Leigh, Melissa Benoist, Kevin Smith & Andrew Kreisberg
• 02:30:50 Blue Planet for a Green Man from a Red World with Mike McKone, Peter David, J. M. DeMatteis, Howard Porter, David Harewood, Andrew Kreisberg, & Lance Reddick

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter #5  & All-Star Section Eight #3 (2015)

Frank summarizes and critiques two comedic comics: the fifth issue of the New 52/DC You Martian Manhunter series by Rob Williams and Eddy Barrows, plus the Alien Atlas'  cover-spotlighted appearance in All-Star Section Eight by Garth Ennis  & John McCrea!

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Podcast: Wonder Woman '77 Special #2

Five months later, the Diana Prince Wonder Woman podcast returns  for a second installment! We'll discuss that, including plans to rev up  the show's production in 2016. Diabolu Frank spends most of the episode  dressing down The Cheetah, then moves on to the brief return of the  1970s Wonder Woman television series' digital-first comic book  adaptation, as well as addressing your lengthy, lovely letters.

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Podcast: John Jones in Smallville, Part 1

Beginning this episode: an irregular series of shows covering  appearances by the Sleuth from Outer Space on the WB/CW's long-lived ~~Superboy~~ Clark Kent developing into Superman TV show Smallville.  This initial installment looks briefly at the show's formative  development, then summarizes John Jones' cameo debut in the sixth season  episode "Static," followed by the launch of the Martian-less not quite a  "Justice" League, and finally the full debut of the Manhunter as  portrayed by Phil Morris in "Labyrinth."

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter #4 (2015)

Frank summarizes and critiques the fourth issue of the New 52/DC You Martian Manhunter series by Rob Williams and Eddy Barrows! Also, a deeper, angrier  critique of the series and look at sales, plus a brief look at the Supergirl pilot.

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter #3 (2015)

Frank summarizes and critiques the third issue of the New 52/DC You Martian Manhunter series by Rob Williams and Eddy Barrows! Plus, Martian Mail covering the 60th Anniversary Special (Part 1.)

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• The second ever adventure of Captain Atom by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko.
• From Charlton Comics' June 1960 cover-dated Space Adventures #34!
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Podcast: Martian Manhunter's 60th Anniversary Special Part One (1955-1993)

New York Times Program Synopsis:

A special which pays tribute to The Manhunter from Mars, the least popular co-founder of the Justice League of America and one of the greatest hanger-on associates to pop culture heroes of all time. The special interweaves memorable moments from J'onn J'onzz's television series, cartoons and comics highlighting his super powers, secret identity, acts of heroism, and personal life. Also included are comically inept text-to-audio vignettes featuring unrecorded guest stars discussing the best super-hero ever of Middletown, U.S.A.

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Podcast: Sleuth from Outer Space Semicentennial

This week we discuss the only major acknowledgement of Martian Manhunter's 50th anniversary to see print, the 2005 SDCC convention program book, including a reading of the Mark Lucas article "Fear and Loathing on Mars: The Long and Strange Trip of J'onn J'onzz, Manhunter from Mars." We also searched the web for the 2006 blog post J. Caleb Mozzocco's Actually Essential Storylines: Martian Manhunter, as well as the DC Comics Martian Manhunter character page.

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter #2 (2015)

At the start of a month long concentration of podcasts & posts  related to the celebration of the debut of the Manhunter from Mars in  September of 1955, Frank summarizes and critiques the second issue of  the New 52/DC You Martian Manhunter series by Rob Williams and  Eddy Barrows! Before that though, we look at the sales numbers available  on this series to date, and compare them to Cyborg #1, which is also discussed in some detail. Finally, Martian Mail, which was rich this month.

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Podcast: 2015 DC You Martian Manhunter #1 Following a month long hiatus of any activity on the blog, Frank tries to make amends with a half-hour podcast on the debut issue of the New 52/DC You Martian Manhunter series by Rob Williams and Eddy Barrows!

You can enjoy material discussed in this episode online and legal, such as

• DC Sneak Peek: Martian Manhunter (2015)
• Too Dangerous For A Girl!
• Dannilo Santiago review

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• The Tiny Titan!
• By Gardner Fox, Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson!
• From DC Comics' November-December 1961 cover-dated Showcase #35!
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• The debut of the Atomic Age Action Hero!
• Creators Joe Gill and Steve Ditko!
• From Charlton Comics' March 1960 cover-dated Space Adventures #33!
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The third episode of POTAcast takes its cues from the blog and turns  over its space/numbering to co-star Captain Atom, near-identically  paralleling the anthology bow of the Tiny Titan (off by one issue and  predating it by more than a year!)

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Podcast: Wonder Woman '77 Special #1

After a nearly year long hiatus, the Diana Prince as the New Wonder Woman blog is revived in podcast form! Diabolu Frank spends most of the debut  episode prattling on about his lifetime experiences with the Amazing  Amazon, but wraps things up reviewing the 1970s Wonder Woman television  series' short-lived digital first comic book adaptation

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Podcast: Justice League Mortal (2007) A brief discussion of the unproduced JLA movie from the late aughts and a planned documentary chronicling its ill-fated course.

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• The debut of Ray Palmer in his costumed identity as The Atom!
• ...and his first adversary!
• Courtesy of Gardner Fox, Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson!
• The second story from DC Comics' October 1961 cover-dated Showcase #34!
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Amazing Heroes Interviews

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Interview conducted with the beloved comic book writer and novelist Peter David at The Texas International Comic Convention, Houston’s Comicpalooza, on May 24, 2015. The interview has been edited for time, content, consistency and quality.

• 00:55 Breaking into Marvel Comics
• 01:53 Jim Owsley & Spectacular Spider-Man
• 04:22 Jean DeWolff
• 06:23 Mark Beachum
• 07:14 Mark Hazzard: Merc
• 09:03 The Incredible Hulk
• 13:10 Justice in the New Universe
• 14:56 Marvel life before and after Jim Shooter
• 17:51 Transitioning to DC Comics
• 21:04 Aquaman & The Atlantis Chronicles
• 27:00 Image Comics & Company

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• The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast
• The Under Guides Graphic Novel Podcast
• rolled spine special
• The Idol-Head of Diabolu (Martian Manhunter Podcast)
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• Introduction of the Silver Age Atom Ray Palmer!
• ...and his lady-love Jean Loring!
• Debut of titanic creative team Gardner Fox, Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson!
• From DC Comics' October 1961 cover-dated Showcase #34!
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Podcast: The Top 10 Most Important Martian Manhunter Villains As part of the sixth seasonal Super Blog Team-Up's theme of top ten lists, Frank offers an audio synopsis of the series of essays The Ten Most Important Martian Manhunter Adversaries from 2010, which has held up pretty well these past four years since nothing much ever happens to the Alien Atlas, even during a line wide reboot. The "new kid" on this particular block debuted in 1998, and how many foes of the New 52 Manhunter can you name, anyway?

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Super Blog Team-Up #6 seemed like a perfectly fine event to premiere the upconverted DC Bloodlines in its second life as a podcast! Once again, we take the blog's title entirely too seriously and actually discuss (shudder) New Bloods and Bloodlines Parasites from the 1993 DC Comics Annuals theme event! Oh, and before you all comment, I screwed up with the Levelator and didn't save the audio tracks like a good little podcaster, so the background songs are way more foregrounded than they ought to be. I'll watch that next time...

• 10) Anima
• 09) Glonth
• 08) Myriad
• 07) Lissik
• 06) Argus
• 05) Ballistic
• 04) Geist
• 03) Sparx
• 02) Nightblade
• 01) Hitman

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Podcast: Threessentials

In a second(!) episode for April (clearly failing weekly offerings, that's a step up from monthly!) we catch up with correspondence given short shrift since the last mail heavy episode, #6: Strawmanhunter from Mars. Besides reading all the long form comments since mid-March, Frank elaborates at length. For instance, he reads a letter about applying the "Three Point Model," three short definitive statements about a character, to the Alien Atlas. Discussion includes the less than stellar Martian invasions of Earth, John Jones' sociopolitical leanings, and more randomness that hopefully augments folks' understanding of the character.

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Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1956 After a hiatus of four episodes and three months, we finally return to our year-by-year overview of the Sleuth from Outer Space's early adventures, 1956 being his first full year of publication with a dozen cases to cover. Co-creator and initial writer Joe Samachson is replaced first by Dick Wood before the arrival of the longest consistent scripter of the strip, Jack Miller. Joe Certa carries on with his own lengthy run on art, here mostly on Detective John Jones as a plainclothes policeman with extraordinary powers who only occasionally runs across challenges of a truly supernormal nature.

1956 Cover Dated Story Synopses

• 227: "The Man With 20 Lives"

• 228: "Escape To The Stars"

• 229: "The Phantom Bodyguard"

• 230: "The Sleuth Without A Clue"

• 231: "The Thief Who Had Super Powers!"

• 232: "The Dog With A Martian Master"

• 233: "The Ghost From Outer Space"

• 234: "The Martian Convict"

• 235: "The World's Greatest Magician"

• 236: "The Great Earth-Mars Mystery"

• 237: "The Sleuth Who Went to Jail"

• 238: "Earth Detective For A Day"

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Podcast: The New 52 Martian Manhunter

In light of DC Comics' official discontinuation of the "New 52" brand  just as they finally announce the now-not-New 52 Martian Manhunter  series we've been waiting for since 2011, Frank looks at the history of  the Alien Atlas within the context of the current publishing continuity.

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Podcast: Strawmanhunter from Mars

This episode, we look at the solicitation copy for the 2015 Martian Manhunter (mini-?) series, as well as a fan rumor about Vile Menagerie favorite appearing on the upcoming CBS Supergirl show (we know better than to even hope without confirmation.) Then we answer your comments from previous shows at length, including which Marvel Comics heroes he most resembles (The Vision isn't even mentioned) and more on J'Onn J'Onzz's solo viability related to that Comics Alliance article discussed last month.

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Podcast: Making Sense of the Martian Manhunter This episode, Frank responds to an article on Comics Alliance by Chris Sims where the columnist devotes more time to thinking about the pros and cons of the Manhunter from Mars than most folks would ever spare. Sims felt the Alien Atlas compared unfavorably and unavoidably to Superman and Batman in the Justice League, and that he works best filling their vacuum in instances where the World's Finest duo are unavailable. Frank mostly agrees, but explains that there are a lot more venues available for that service within the DC Universe than might have been previously considered, including adopting orphaned concepts from prior periods of those heroes' library. Remember kids, just because you only know a character from team books doesn't mean that's all there is to know...

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Podcast: Martian Manhunter Multiversity

As part of a Super Blog Team-Up crossover, we look at Imaginary Stories featuring the unfamiliar J'Onn J'Onzzes of parallel dimensions! Trip the light fantastic with the below blogs/vlogs/podcasts!

#SBTU Multiversity

• Chasing Amazing: The Case Against Spider-Man Reign
• Superior Spider-Talk: The Case For Spider-Man: Reign
• Between The Pages: A Tale Of Two Cities On The Edge Of Forever
• Bronze Age Babies: Things Are a Little Different Around Here...
• Firestorm Fan on Infinite Earths: Countdown Arena
• Flodo's Page: The Ballad of Two Green Lanterns
• The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast: Doctor Zero
• In My Not So Humble Opinion: The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong
• The Legion of Super-Bloggers: Star Trek/Legion of Super-Heroes
• Longbox Graveyard: X-Men #141 & 142- Days of Future Past
• Mystery Vlog: Marvel & DC's Secret Crossover- Avengers #85–86 (1st Squadron Supreme)
• Superhero Satellite: Marvel Comics' Star Comics Line “Licensed Reality and Parallel Properties”
• Ultraverse Network: Altered Reality- The Ultraverse Before and After Black September
• The Unspoken Decade: THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE- ROBOCOP VERSUS TERMINATOR
• The Unspoken Decade: 5 Batmen, 1 Superman, ZERO HOUR

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Podcast: 60 Years of Martian Manhunter - 1955

Three episodes in, we finally cover the debut comics of J'Onn J'Onzz, the Manhunter from Mars. The Batman and Roy Raymond TV Detective stories from Detective Comics #225 are given brief nods before diving into a synopsis of "The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel" (01:46). A rather overwrought analysis of this first story of Detective John Jones (05:54) precedes coverage of the second "half" of the origin, the run-of-the-mill mostly standalone tale "The Case of the Magic Baseball" (18:46). Finally, "Martian Morphing Mail" (21:10) has already morphed away from the previous episode's audio, and is a bit livelier this round. Coming in at a stout 31:24, look for the show to lean back up again now that the heavy lifting of our subject's introduction is out of the way (and hopefully less painful voice "acting.")

• Lieutenant Saunders (Profile Page)
• Trigger Tom Taylor (Profile Page)
• Big Bob Michaels (Profile Page)
• Brad Devon (Profile Page)
• The Vast Stadium

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Podcast: The Debut of Despero (1960)

This week, we look at one of the primary villains of Martian Manhunter and the Justice League of America, Despero of Kalanor. Starting with a brief glimpse at the JLofA's earliest issues and foes, we progress to a synopsis of 1960's Justice League of America #1 (02:38,) Frank discussing his first exposure to and thoughts on the Silver Age Despero and his supporting players (06:41,) a synopsis of 1964's Justice League of America #26 (08:58,) further analysis on the character (11:46,) his current lack of a role in the films Justice League Parts 1 & 2 (14:17) and listener response on the first episode (17:07.)

• Enemies of Despero: Jasonar
• Enemies of Despero: Saranna
• 2009 Michael Netzer "December of Despero" Pin-Up
• 2007 Silver Age Despero Sketch by Chris Samnee
• 2009 Despero Custom Valentine Card

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Episode #1 (Original Airdate: Dec 13, 2014)

The Idol-Head of Diabolu, a blog for J'Onn J'Onzz, the Manhunter from Mars, is revived in podcast form ahead of the Alien Atlas' Sixtieth Anniversary year. Acting as a prelude, this episode covers the prototype of the Sleuth from Outer Space. Meet Roh Kar, Lawman of Mars...

• Roh Kar, First Lawman of Mars (Profile Page)
• Batman #78 (Aug.-Sep. 1953)
• 2012 Roh Kar Comicpalooza Commission by Thom Zahler
• Roh'Kar (2006)

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