Marvel Reread Club: Recent Episodes
Steve and Matt Bird
The Bird brothers talk about the Marvel Comics comic books they grew up reading. Steve has been a comics pro since 2000 and Matt is the author of “The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers." They’re eighties kids who grew up reading Marvel comics and they like to talk about ‘em!
MRC launches into February 1969 with Amazing Spider-Man 69, Daredevil 49, Thor 161, X-Men 53, and Incredible Hulk 112, featuring the entirely underwhelming debut of Barry (Not Yet Windsor) Smith!
MRC finishes up January 1969 with Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 8, Doctor Strange 176, Iron Man 9, Captain America 109, and Avengers 60! The desperate need for new marriage laws in New York State, panel borders gone berserk, and lots of other crises! Check it out!
Hey, where’s Star Lord?? MRC covers part 2 of January, 1969, introducing the (original) Guardians of the Galaxy in Marvel Super-Heroes 18, plus Fantastic Four 82, Captain Marvel 9 and Sub-Mariner 9! Check it out!
MRC pickets January of 1969 with Amazing Spider-Man 68, Daredevil 48, Thor 160, X-Men 52, and Incredible Hulk 111! The year of the moon landing and Woodstock has finally arrived! Groovy!
MRC finally does away with 1968! To finish up December, we’ve got Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 7, Doctor Strange 175, Iron Man 8, Captain America 108, and Avengers 59! Springer approaches Steranko territory! The Trapster finds out he has a jar of Elmer’s paste! Hank Pym somehow gets even worse! Check it out!
MRC soldiers on through December 1968 with Fantastic Four 81, Captain Marvel 8, Sub-Mariner 8, and Silver Surfer 3! More wonder-gloves! More evidence that maybe Colletta on Heck wasn’t such a good idea after all! Check it out!
MRC jumps into December 1968 with Amazing Spider-Man 67, Daredevil 47, Thor 159, X-Men 51, and Incredible Hulk 110! How is Daredevil better than the Steranko book?? Listen to find out!
MRC wraps up the main books of November 1968 with Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 6, Doctor Strange 174, Iron Man 7, Captain America 107, and Avengers 58. A Post-Steranko World! Satan-ish! Pym suckage will somehow only increase! Check it out!
MRC careens on though November of 1968, with Fantastic Four 80, Captain Marvel 7, Sub-Mariner 7, and Marvel Super-Heroes 17 featuring the Black Knight! Fun fact: A Choice Not an Ecch-O is a reference to a book by Phillis Shlafley, of all people! Check it out!
MRC delves into November 1968 with Amazing Spider-Man 66, Daredevil 46, Thor 158, X-Men 50, and the Incredible Hulk 109. Explore with us the power of great inking and the peril of poor inking! Check it out!
Today’s episode is a special treat for our Patrons! Go to patreon.marvelrereadclub.com to hear the whole thing, or just check out this little teaser! John Romita biographer Jeff Ryan returns to talk about Marvel’s magazine experiment with Spectacular Spider-Man 1 and 2! Never trust politicians! Never accept Thanksgiving invites! Check it out!
MRC finishes the (regular) books of October, 1968 with Captain America 106, Iron Man 6, Avengers 57 and Silver Surfer 2! Check them out, and then show your teacher that comics are okay because one of them printed Ozymandias!
MRC covers more books from October, 1968, including Fantastic Four 79, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 5, Dr. Strange 173, Sub-Mariner 6, and Captain Marvel 6! Android-Man Wants the Wonder Gloves! Op Art vs. Pop Tarts! Check it out!
MRC infiltrates October 1968 with Amazing Spider-Man 65, Daredevil 45, Thor 157, X-Men 49 and Incredible Hulk 108, featuring a big artist-tease and a pleasant inking surprise! Check it out!
MRC welcomes longtime comic journalist Zack Smith (who’s actually talked to these creators) to discuss 1968’s Avengers Annual 2 and Hulk Annual 1! Check it out!
MRC finishes our Magical Mystery Tour through September 1968, with Iron Man 5, Captain America 105, Captain Marvel 5, and Avengers 56! We’ve finally created the Torment Nexus! Check it out!
MRC dons our Multi-Powered Wonder Gloves to delicately handle more books from September 1968, featuring Fantastic Four 78, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 4, Dr. Strange 172 and Sub-Mariner 5! Check it out!
MRC launches into September 1968 with Amazing Spider-Man 64, Daredevil 44, Thor 156, X-Men 48 and Incredible Hulk 107! Check it out!
MRC finally wraps up August 1968 with Captain Marvel 4, Iron Man 4, Avengers 55 and, in his elephantine debut issue, Silver Surfer 1 (also featuring the Watcher)! Check it out!
MRC plows ahead though more books from August 1968 with five great (yet all slightly flawed) comics: Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 3, Doctor Strange 71, Fantastic Four 77, Captain America 104 and Sub-Mariner 4. Check it out!
MRC returns from a little break with some books from August 1968: Amazing Spider-Man 63, Daredevil 43, Thor 155, X-Men 47, and Incredible Hulk 106, each of which is worth more than 12 cents today!
MRC (pretty much) finishes up July 1968 with Fantastic Four 76, Incredible Hulk 105, Iron Man 3, and Sub-Mariner 3, where we find out that we should have been reading Plant-Man with a cockney accent all these years! Check it out!
MRC welcomes special guest Jamal Igle to discuss some of the books from July, 1968! We cover Captain America 103, Avengers 54, Dr Strange 170, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 2, and Captain Marvel 3! Internuclear Space! Evolutionizers! Automated Rebirth Colonizers! And those three are all on the same page! Check it out!
MRC gets tangled up in the prehensile hair of July, 1968 featuring not one but two attempts to set up Medusa with her own book! We will discuss Amazing Spider-Man 62, Marvel Super-Heroes 15 featuring Medusa, Daredevil 42, Thor 154, and X-Men 46! Check ‘em out!
MRC completes our epic journey though June 1968 with Dr Strange 169, Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD 1, Captain America 102 and Avengers 53! Check it out!
MRC tries to extricate itself from the quagmire of June 1968, with Fantastic Four 75, Incredible Hulk 104, Iron Man 2, Captain Marvel 2 and Sub-Mariner 2! Check it out!
MRC tackles the big issues, like the difference between a vat and a crucible, as we begin our (long) journey through the books of June 1968, with Amazing Spider-Man 61, Daredevil 41, Thor 153 and X-Men 44! Check it out!
MRC finally finishes up the elephantine month of May 1968 with Strange Tales 168 (the final issue) featuring Dr. Strange and SHIELD, Captain America 101, Captain Marvel 1 and Avengers 52! Check it out!
MRC covers part 2 of 3 of Marvel’s super-sized May 1968, with Fantastic Four 74, Incredible Hulk 103, Iron Man 1, Marvel Super-Heroes featuring Spider-Man 14 (don’t worry, they just do that once) and Sub-Mariner 1. Check it out!
MRC shoots you with a ray gun that takes away 55 minutes of your life (or less if you listen sped up)! We look at Amazing Spider-Man 60, Daredevil 40, Thor 152 and X-Men 44! Check it out!
MRC finishes up April 1968 with special guest Paris Cullins! Featuring Fantastic Four 73, Strange Tales 167 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Captain America 100, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner 1 and Avengers 51! Demolo-Gun Nerve Blasters! 4 page splashes! Pseudo-Godzilla! The Destructron! Johnny Craig! The other Mentallo! The Vibration! Check it out!
MRC returns from a brief break! And we’ve brought a very special guest, veteran penciller Paris Cullins, who has funny tales of meeting Stan Lee, Steve Ditko and Vince Colletta! Together we look at Amazing Spider-Man #59, Daredevil #39, Thor #151, Incredible Hulk #102, and X-Men #43! Check it out!
MRC finishes up March of 1968 with Fantastic Four 72, Strange Tales 166 with Dr Strange and SHIELD, Tales of Suspense 99 with Iron Man and Captain America, Avengers 50 and Marvel Super-Heroes 13 with Captain Marvel! Sonic Sharks! Voltorg! Sky Commandos! Sitwell kicking ass! Kruhl! Erinyes! Uni-Beams! Check it out!
MRC forges ahead into March 1968 with Amazing Spider-Man 58, Daredevil 38, Thor 150, Tales to Astonish 101 featuring Hulk and Namor, and X-Men 42. Spider-Heck! Strutting DD! Hela cannot, in fact, bide her time! Hulk meet Volstagg! Colan-Adkins! Not a Hoax! Check it out!
MRC welcomes back Marvel super-expert Douglas Wolk to finish up the books of February 1968, with Fantastic Four 71, Strange Tales 165 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 98 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers 49! Electric-Force Beams! Hyper-Psionic Brain Wave Emanations! Voltorr who looks suspiciously like the Walking Talking I-Don’t-Care Man! “The Panther”! The Femme Fatale with the Far-Out Fedora! Buscema Inks! Check it out!
MRC welcome back all-time Marvel expert Douglas Wolk to discuss the books of February 1968, featuring Amazing Spider-Man 57, Daredevil 37, Thor 149, Tales to Astonish with Namor and Hulk 100, and X-Men 41! More amnesia! Dr. Doom meets Galactus (in Daredevil)! Frank Zappa! Massive coincidences! Grotesk with a K! Check it out!
MRC finishes off January 1968 with returning special guest Jeff Ryan, featuring Fantastic Four #70, Strange Tales #164 with Dr Strange and SHIELD, Tales of Suspense #97 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #48! The Menta-Wave Unit! Flames of the Faltine! Hyperdimensional Space! Uni-directional explosives! Irma Kruhl! Ant-covered roulette tables! Check it out!
MRC welcomes special guest Jeff Ryan, author of “Father and Son Issues: The Secret History of Spider-Man” to talk about John Romita and the books of January 1968, featuring Amazing Spider-Man 56, Daredevil 36, Thor 148, Tales to Astonish 99 with Hulk and Namor, and X-Men 140! Check it out!
MRC finishes off December of 1967 with Fantastic Four 69, Strange Tales 163 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 96 with Iron Man and Captain America, Avengers 47, and a bonus fifth book: Marvel Super-Heroes 12 introducing Captain Marvel! (No, not that one. Or that one. The other one.) The Id-Receptor of the Psionic-Revelation Eavesdropper! Goobers! 180 degree manspreading! Check it out!
MRC plows into December 1967 with Amazing Spider-Man 55, Daredevil 35, Thor 147, Tales to Astonish 98 with Namor and Hulk, and X-Men 39! Hoary amnesia tropes! Trapster self-esteem building! Buff Loki! Orca punching! Angel suspenders! Check it out!
MRC and special guest Mike Collins finish up the books of November 1967, including Fantastic Four 68, Strange Tales 162 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 95 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers 46. A bad Kirby cover! Making Bond Jealous! All swipe-pages! Sitwell! Agent Thirteen! Whirlwind! Check it out!
MRC welcomes the legendary British penciller Mike Collins (who drew the first appearance of Gambit!) to discuss the books of November 1967, featuring Amazing Spider-Man 54, Daredevil 34, Thor 146, Tales to Astonish 97 with Namor and Hulk, and X-Men 38! Roomer has it! Too Dumb to Die! Volstagless-Thor! Swamp Men! Living Lightning! Blobby pupils! Check it out!
It’s time for our 1967 Annuals Episode, with Daredevil Annual 1, Amazing Spider-Man Annual 4, Avengers Annual 1 and Fantastic Four Annual 5! Dollar Store Sinister Six! Secret Larry! Asgardian Tossing! Procreation! Check it out!
MRC finishes up October of 1967 with Fantastic Four 67, Strange Tales 161 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 94 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers 45. The Creature in Lock 41! The Id-Paralyzer! All-Swipes! Titanium Miniskirts! MODOK vs. Beekeepers! Waffle-Pattern Eyes! Check it out!
MRC launches into October of 1967 with Amazing Spider-Man #53, Daredevil #33, Thor #145, Tales to Astonish #96 with Namor and Hulk, and X-Men #37! Seeds of the clone sagas! A laundry list of things not associated with beetles! T-Shirt Thor! Polar Serpents! The Beginning of the End of Human Evolution! Far Out Helmets! Check it out!
MRC steals the gimmick of May 1967, starting with Amazing Spider-Man #48, Daredevil #28, Thor #140, Tales to Astonish #91 with Namor and Hulk, and X-Men #32! Cruci-fiction! Blind/Freeze-Rays! Stimuloids! Democracy sucks! Infinite Weapons! Satan’s Saints! Check it out!
MRC wraps up September 1967 with Fantastic Four #66, Strange Tales #160 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #93 with Iron Man and Captain America and Avengers #44! Electroni-Blades! Gravity-Nullifying Belts! The Lost Communion of Evil Intent! MODOK! Deadly belt buckles! Check it out!
MRC returns from hiatus to finish April 1967, going all out of order with Daredevil #27, Fantastic Four #61, Avengers #39, Tales of Suspense #88 with Captain America and Iron Man, and Thor #139! Rocking chair helicopters! Latverian headshop blacklight posters! Thunderboot! Pepper hooves! Kane tech! Colletta really messing this one up! Check it out!
MRC welcomes super-special guest Dan McCoy, Emmy-winning writer and co-host of The Flophouse! We discuss four books from July 1967: Amazing Spider-Man 50, Strange Tales 158 with SHIELD and Dr Strange, Tales to Astonish 93 with Namor and Hulk, and X-Men 34! Spidey No More! Monocle upon eye patch upon monocle! An actual Pink Floyd Album cover! Shameless swipes! Check it out!
MRC welcomes special guest George O’Connor to cover the books of August, 1967! A discussion of George’s Asgardians graphic novels leads right into Thor 143, then Amazing Spider-Man 51, Daredevil 31, Tales to Astonish 94 with Namor and the Hulk, and X-Men 35! Lots of heroes pretending they don’t know how money works! Pre-Puzo Puzo! Convenient fire-fighter nets! Lost weekends! Check it out!
George O’Connor returns to help MRC finish off August of 1967 with Fantastic Four 65, Strange Tales 159 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 92 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers 43! Auras of Negativism! Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine! La Leche Es Verde! 4/5ths Face! The Ultimate No-Prize! Convenient Homing-Beam Gizmos! Check it out!
MRC finishes up May of 1967 with Fantastic Four #62, Strange Tales #156 featuring SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #89 featuring Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #40! Blastaar! Zip-a-Tone-Man! Zom! Bachelor Life! The Amalga-Beast! Check it out!
To discuss the first half of April 1967, MRC welcomes legendary comics journalist Heidi MacDonald (who actually knew Marie Severin and tells us about her!) She chose her favorites, so we’re out of order, doing X-Men 31, Amazing Spider-Man 47, Tales to Astonish 90 featuring Namor and Hulk, and Strange Tales 155 featuring SHIELD and Dr Strange! Check it out!
MRC finishes up March of 1967 with Fantastic Four #60, Strange Tales #154 with SHIELD and Doctor Strange, Tales of Suspense #87 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #38! The Watcher Can’t Even Watch! Darts of Doom! Veritas! Boring and Riveting! The Bamboo Curtain! Check it out!
MRC launches into March of 1967 with special guest Bill Cairns, covering Amazing Spider-Man #46, Daredevil #26, Thor #138, Tales to Astonish with Namor and Hulk #89 and X-Men #30. Vibro-Thumbs! More Mike! Matchless Fist Pounders! Whale vs Robot! A Tale of Two Sparlings! Check it out!
MRC finishes up February of 1967 with Fantastic Four #59, Strange Tales #153 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #86 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #36. Solar-Beam guns! Ultra-Magnetic Stabilizers! The Pillar of Peril! A Good Ol’ American One-Two to the Kisser! Beeper Dogs! Ixar! Check it out!
MRC swings into February 1967 with Amazing Spider-Man #45, Daredevil #25, Thor #137, Tales to Astonish #88 with Namor and Hulk and X-Men #29. Fights atop trains! Mike Murdoch! Spear skills! Alien littering! Revolutionary War Underground Throne-rooms! Check it out!
MRC finishes up January 1967 with Fantastic Four #58, Strange Tales with SHIELD and Dr. Strange #152, Tales of Suspense with Iron Man and Captain America #85 and Avengers #36! The Dismal Dregs of Defeat! White Knuckles! Cunning and Guile! Note-taking! Name of a Name! Burgomeisters! Check it out!
MRC slithers into January 1967 with Amazing Spider-Man #44, Daredevil #24, Thor #136, Tales to Astonish #87 with Namor and the Hulk, and X-Men #28. One Last Glimpse of Penn Station! Armed Brigands! Him Who Is Unknown! Mysterious Paste-Ups! Thews! Pliers! Check it out!
It’s our landmark 100th episode, with very special guest, National Book Award winner Dan Santat! We discuss the 1966 Annuals: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3, Fantastic Four Annual #4, and Giant-Size Thor #2! Testiness! Anguish! Brawling! Check it out!
MRC and guest comics journalist Rob Salkowitz finish up December 1966 with Fantastic Four #57, Strange Tales #151 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #84 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #35! High Intensity Inductors! Steranko! (with commentary from Steranko himself, who Steve just interviewed!) Lots of Ditko swipes! Another villain with all the powers of the heroes! Cap’s disintegrated shield! Check it out!
Eisner-nominated comics journalist Rob Salkowitz rejoins us to discuss December 1966, featuring Amazing Spider-Man #43, Daredevil #23, Thor #135, Tales to Astonish #86 with Namor and the Hulk, and X-Men #27. The draft! Splashes! Genetic Accelerators! Grandenetti! Red belts! Check it out!
MRC welcomes back special guest Rachel Gluckstern to finish up the comics from November of 1966 with Fantastic Four #56, Strange Tales #150 with SHIELD and Doctor Strange, Tales of Suspense #83 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #34! The Space-Time-Research-Visi-Phone! The Overkill Horn! Umar! McNamara! Not the Acrobat! Laser people representation! Check it out!
MRC welcomes veteran comics editor Rachel Gluckstern to talk about November 1966, starting with Amazing Spider-Man 42, Daredevil 22, Thor 134, Tales to Astonish 85 with Namor and Hulk and X-Men 26! Mary Jane! Mafia FaceTime interviews! The High Evolutionary! Tartaglione ruins Buscema! Proto-Frogger! Check it out!
MRC finishes up October 1966 with Fantastic Four #55, Strange Tales #149 with SHIELD and Doctor Strange, Tales of Suspense #82 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #33! Whitey! Whitney! Good Samaritans! One-Wheeler Wubble Roller-Skates! The Adaptoid! Outside Agitators! Check it out!
ASM smashes headlong into October of 1966, with Amazing Spider-Man #41, Daredevil #21, Thor #133, Tales to Astonish #84 with Namor and the Hulk, and X-Men #25! Biker Pete! Forbidden Chambers! Fluid Bio-Verses! Paging Dr. Namor! The Whole Blamed Bullpen! Kukulcan! Check it out!
MRC finishes up the ninth month of the year of Soupy Sales, 1966, with Fantastic Four #54, Strange Tales #148 with SHIELD and Dr Strange, Tales of Suspense #81 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #32! Prester on the John! The Tri-Di-Roentgen Hand-Gun! Jogging borders! Small-of-the-Back-Kicking! Excessive Irony! Check it out!
MRC launches into September 1966 with Amazing Spider-Man #40, Daredevil #20, Thor #132, Tales to Astonish #83 with Namor and Hulk and X-Men #24! Sun Blast! Sonic Vortex! Power Borer! And those are all in the same panel! Check it out!
MRC finishes up August 1966, which means X-Men #23, Tales to Astonish #82 with Namor and Hulk, Strange Tales #147 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, and Avengers #31! More bickering! Kirby record-scratch! Sheer coincidence! Steel Skull Cap! A Boss Bunch’a Threads! By Wavy Hair Betrayed! Check it out!
MRC returns with the first half of August, 1966! That means Amazing Spider-Man #39, Daredevil #19, Thor #131, and then, because Marvel published the books out of order this month, Tales of Suspense #80! Romita times 2! One of those avant-garde New York happenings! Br’er Tony! Full Simek! Check it out!
Veteran Marvel penciller Georges Jeanty rejoins us to discuss Fantastic Four 52 and 53, the two-part debut of the Black Panther! Cassette recorders! Whistling Watusi! Check it out!
MRC continues our march through July 1966! We’re saving Fantastic Four for a special episode, so we’re covering X-Men #22, Strange Tales #46 with SHIELD and (the final Ditko) Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #79 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #30! Making fun of the Mets! Hammer-Hand Androids! The Cosmic Cube! Wavy Hair! Check it out!
MRC begins July of 1966 with Amazing Spider-Man #38 (Ditko’s final issue), Daredevil #18, Thor #130, and Tales to Astonish #81 with Namor and Hulk. Pete vs. Protesters! Flying Gladiator! Elbow Lines! Underwater Radio Shack! Thick Red Washer Man! Check it out!
MRC welcomes back Marvel superstar David Baldeon to finish up the month of June, 1966, with Fantastic Four #51, Strange Tales #145 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #78 with Iron Man and Captain America and Avengers #29! “This Man, This Monster”! Ramroddin’! Mister Rasputin! Acid-soaked Humanoids! Dr. Yen’s Brainwashing! Check it out!
MRC delves into June 1966 with our special guest, Marvel superstar penciller David Baldeon, live from Barcelona! We discuss Amazing Spider-Man 37, Daredevil 17, Thor 129, Tales to Astonish 80 with Hulk and Namor, and X-Men 21! Females! White mouth drapes! Tana Nile! Underwater fences! Tyrannoids! Dude ranchers! Check it out!
MRC finishes up May 1966 with Fantastic Four #50, Strange Tales #144 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #77 with Iron Man and Captain America and Avengers 28! Egg Armaments! Thero Ray! Multiple Jet Gun! Traction Nodules! And those are all in the same panel! Check it out!
MRC loots May of 1966, with Spider-Man #36, Daredevil #16, Thor #128, Tales to Astonish #79 with Namor and the Hulk, and X-Men #20! Dazzle Guns! Hydraulic Hoists! Beast-Fish! Actually decent inking on Sub-Mariner! Organic Energy Attractors! Check it out!
MRC concludes April of 1966 with returning special guest Riley Brown, featuring Fantastic Four #49, Strange Tales #143 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #76 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #27! Burrito-Reed! Brainwave Stimulators! The Seven Rings of Raggadorr! Ultimo! Inferno 42! The Subliminal Recall Inducer! Check it out!
MRC welcomes Marvel superstar penciller Riley Brown to help us launch April 1966, with Amazing Spider-Man #35, Daredevil #15, Tales to Astonish #78 with Namor and Hulk, Thor #127 and X-Men #19! Spider-butt modesty! And extra set of Ox garments! Off-model Puppet Master! Gray-haired Betty! Hollywood! Scott’s double! Check it out!
MRC trembles before the second half of March, 1966, with Fantastic Four #48, Strange Tales #142 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #75 with Iron Man and Captain America, and Avengers #26! Silver Surfer Sans Underpants! Them! Bomb-bombs! Zut Alors! Hawkeye’’s Showgirls! Check it out!
MRC dreams of March 1966 with Amazing Spider-Man #34, Daredevil #14, Thor #126, Tales to Astonish #77 with Namor and Hulk, and X-Men #18! So many blinds! Vibra-Rays! Proto-Krackle! Magnetic Attraction! Check it out!
MRC finishes up February 1966 with Fantastic Four #47, Strange Tales #141 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #74 with Iron Man and Captain America and Avengers #25. Atmo-guns! Bazooka drills! The Enervator! Soupy Sales! The Plasti-Dome! Check it out!
MRC struggles under the weight of February 1966 with Amazing Spider-Man #33, Daredevil #13, Journey Into Mystery #125 with Thor, Tales to Astonish #76 with Namor and the Hulk and X-Men #17! More poor photojournalism ethics! Vibrating shorts! Exploso-rays! High intensity paralyzer howitzers! Check it out!
MRC finishes up January 1966 with Fantastic Four #46, Strange Tales #140 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #73 with Namor and the Hulk, and Avengers #24. Universal Control Rods! Blisteringly accurate barking burp guns! Pincers of Power! Post-Heck Iron Man! Gas guns that look suspiciously like real guns! Protecto-Shields! Check it out!
MRC launches into January 1966 with Amazing Spider-Man #32, Daredevil #12, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #124, Tales to Astonish #75 with Hulk and Namor, and X-Men #16. A clean break! Cruise ships with planks! Hercules teasing! Revitalizer Rays! Perilously low ceilings! Check it out!
MRC finishes up December 1965 with a whopping five books: Fantastic Four #45, Strange Tales #139 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #72 with Captain America and Iron Man, X-Men #15 and Avengers #23! Iconometric Framistat! Electrified thought-waves! The concealed Spectro-Wave! Check it out!
MRC expands into December 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #31, Daredevil #11, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #123 and Tales to Astonish #74 with the Sub-Mariner and Hulk. Gwen! Little frauds! Sheath confusion! Armored Mobile Defenso-Walls! Check it out!
MRC finishes up November 1965 with Tales of Suspense #71 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #73 with Namor and the Hulk, X-Men #14 and Avengers #22. More Sinnott! Titanium burping! Revolting peasants! Watcher cocktails! Terrifying ice slides! Masks on masks!
MRC delves into November 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #30, Fantastic Four #44, Journey Into Mystery #122 featuring Thor and Strange Tales #138 featuring SHIELD and Dr. Strange. Cat confusion! Squiggly eyeballs! Blackmailing the wrong god! Overseas! Eternity! Check it out!
It’s our King-Size 1965 Annuals episode! Veteran Marvel penciller Georges Jeanty joins us to discuss Journey Into Mystery Annual #1 featuring Thor, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2, featuring Dr. Strange, and Fantastic Four Annual #3, featuring the wedding of Reed and Sue! Check it out!
MRC finishes up October 1965 with Strange Tales #137 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #70 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #72 with Sub-Mariner and Hulk and Avengers 21. Betatron Bombs! Forehead beams! Hotel labs! Bombers under bridges! Underwater vapors! Humanoid eggs! Hello Dolly! Check it out!
MRC finishes up October 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #29, Daredevil #10, Fantastic Four #43 and Journey into Mystery featuring Thor #121. Aw, shuddup! The most contentious Marvel Comic ever! Id takeout! Cliffhanger-o-rama! Check it out!
MRC finishes up September 1965 with Tales of Suspense #69 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #71 with Namor and Thor, X-Men #13 and Avengers #20. A 2nd Kirby-pocalypse! More underwater crying! Awkward mouth-to-mouth resuscitation! Brightness! Wood fails to save Heck! Check it out!
MRC espies the first half of September 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #28, Fantastic Four #42, Journey Into Mystery #120 and Strange Tales #136 with SHIELD and Dr. Strange. Real time! Hair that can see around corners! Disloyal patients! Terrible tradecraft! Especially splayed fingers! Check it out!
MRC infiltrates August 1965 with Strange Tales with Dr. Strange and introducing Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, Tales of Suspense 68 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 70 with Hulk and introducing the Sub-Mariner, and Avengers 19! Helicarriers! Whammies! Moonmen! Unsearched armpits! Fluid meets scratchy! Boomerang swords! Check it out!
MRC shoulders its way into August 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #27, Daredevil #9, Fantastic Four #41, and Journey Into Mystery with Thor #119. The World’s Worst Mystery Solver! More Dictator Dorm Buddies! Reed Won’t Make Room in the Two-Seater! Volstagg’s Round Muscles! Check it out!
MRC finishes up the rest of July 1965 with Tales of Suspense #67 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #69 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #12 and Avengers #18. Glam rock Nefaria! Undersized Dummkopfs! More bad-book-apocaplyse! A trillion concentrated molecules! Winning track meets with mind-reading! Safes plummeting from the skies! Check it out!
MRC destroys the first half of July 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man 26, Fantastic Four #40, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #118 and Strange Tales #134 with Doctor Strange and the final Human Torch! Big Betty! Intensified Molecules! Odin’s Footie PJs! Horse-tossing! Ahead-of-Their-Time Shoulder Pads! Check it out!
MRC finishes June 1965 with Strange Tales #133 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #66 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #68 with Giant-Man and Hulk, and Avengers #17. Getting plastic surgery to look like Uncle Fester! Sploosh! Nautilium! Hateful bellboys! Boopsie! Leaping from passing plane to passing plane! Ultrasonic Vibro-Waves! Check it out!
MRC begins June 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #25, Daredevil #8, Fantastic Four #39 and Journey Into Mystery with Thor #117. Mary Jane! The Electro-Vibra Suit! Badly needed knees! Keep your oversword sheathed! Check it out!
MRC wraps up May 1965 with Tales of Suspense #65 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #67 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #11, and Avengers #16. Weasel Wills! More barely-rewritten Joe Simon! Bees in test tubes! A literal cliffhanger! Taking names off Cerebro! Endless press conferences! Check it out!
MRC flips for May 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #24, Fantastic Four #38, Journey Into Mystery #116 with Thor, and Strange Tales #132 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Taking the fishbowl off your head and putting actual fish in it! Evil trousseau creations! The Collettapocalypse! Stan vs. Larry Ivie! Orb/Eye confusion! Check it out!
MRC gets crushed under the remainder of April 1965, featuring Strange Tales with Human Torch and Dr. Strange #131, Tales of Suspense with Iron Man and Captain America #64, Tales to Astonish with Giant-Man and the Hulk #66, and Avengers #15. The Bouncing Ball of Doom! Lackeys of lackeys of lackeys! Hurtling handcars! The endlessly confusing Carter Family! Deadly plastic toy tractors! Proton guns! Villains imprisoned with their melting rays on! Check it out!
MRC dives into March 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #23, Daredevil #7, Fantastic Four #37 and Thor #115. Bumbling costumed fools! Running amok! Demolo-guns! Limbo-ing Thor! Check it out!
MRC wraps up March 1963 with Tales of Suspense #63 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #65 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #10 and Avengers #14. The most forgettable villain ever! Beautiful hags! Oomphy looks! The world’s luckiest Soviet sub! The first and/or last refuge of the incompetent! Two sub-polar cities! Check it out!
MRC snakes its way though March 1965, with Amazing Spider-Man #22, Fantastic Four #36, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #114, and Strange Tales #130 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Feminine wiles! Unconquerable hair! Subautronic space distorters! Asbestos Beatles wigs! Cravats! Check it out!
MRC welcomes back special guest Rob Salkowitz who was nice enough to stick around and mop up the rest of February 1965 with Strange Tales 129 with Human Torch and Dr Strange, Tales of Suspense 62 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 64 with Giant-Man and the Hulk and Avengers 13. Just add a back seat, Dick! Tension, unrest, war and anarchy! Knee suction cups! Suspiciously sinister eyebrows! Must oil my W! All the Way with LBJ! Non-physical chemicals! Check it out!
MRC welcomes special guest Rob Salkowitz, comics columnist for Forbes Magazine and author of “Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture”. Rob helps us struggle through the first half of February, 1965, featuring Amazing Spider-Man 21, Daredevil 6, Fantastic Four 35, and Journey Into Mystery 113 with Thor. The great Human Torch villain exodus! Actors playing Ox are always just Ox! High school boys striking out with college girls! Cow sized helmet wings! Check it out!
MRC wrestles with the second half of January 1965, featuring Tales of Suspense 61 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 63 with Giant Man and the Hulk, X-Men 9 and Avengers 12! Continued confusion about which Asian country has which martial art! Distended foreheads! Put-upon tourists! Disappointingly ape-less Red Ghosts!
Our 50th episode! MRC hurtles into January 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #20, Fantastic Four #34, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #112 and Strange Tales with Human Torch and Dr. Strange #128. Hooray! Beatles Wigs! Colletta’s infamous eraser! Better than average pinups! Pants with no-one inside ‘em! Check it out!
MRC finally finishes December 1964 featuring Strange Tales #127 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #60 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #62 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, and Avengers #11. Fake mustaches! Mindless Ones! Uranus! Great relish! Second Story Sammy! Nuclear grenades! The royal we! Check it out!
MRC wades into the second half of December 1964 with Amazing Spider-Man #19, Daredevil #5, Fantastic Four #33, and Journey Into Mystery #111 with Thor. Crestfallen Jonah! The great how-does-DD-get-around conundrum! Nutro-nuclear dissolvo-bombs! Love at first sight of huge headgear! Check it out!
MRC gets in the ring with the second half of November, 1964 with Tales of Suspense #59 featuring Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #61 featuring Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #8 and Avengers #10. Hard-luck Jarvis! The Converti-car! Mixed-up Bettys! Menorah trunks! Super power coupons! Check it out!
MRC cowers before the might of November, 1964, featuring Amazing Spider-Man #18, Fantastic Four #32, Journey Into Mystery #110 with Thor, and Strange Tales #126 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange. JJJ jeers! Kirby Kollages! Twig TVs! Ditko Dark Dimension derangement! Check it out!
MRC cannot interfere with the second half of October 1964, featuring Strange Tales #125 with Human Torch and Doctor Strange, Tales of Suspense #58 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish #60 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, and Avengers #9. The U-Car! The jungles of the Himalayas! President Johnson’s favorite motto! Commie Gorillas! The ludicrously easy to capture Wasp! Check it out!
MRC falls under the sway of October, 1964, with Amazing Spider-Man #17, Daredevil #4, Fantastic Four #31 and Journey Into Mystery #109, starring Thor! Frog bombs! Boomerangs with tape recorders inside of them! More criminal family members! Submarines disguised as trees! Check it out!
It’s a very special episode of Marvel Reread Club, as we welcome an insider who knows the real deal. We discuss two of the greatest Marvel comics of all time, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 and Fantastic Four Annual #2, with Steve Bunche, who worked at Marvel and DC back in the day and knows everybody with one or two degrees of separation, from Ditko to Bob Kane! Check it out!
MRC takes aim at the second half of September, 1964 with Tales of Suspense #57 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish #59 with Giant-Man, the Wasp and Hulk, X-Men #7 and Avengers #8. Powerful gloved hands! Standick! Cyberno! Righto!
MRC burrows into the second half of August, 1963, checking out Strange Tales 123 with The Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 56 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish 58 with Giant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers 7. Beetle grippers! Evil thong slivers! Little black books! Pesky escalators! Enchantress slacks!
MRC stalks the first half of August 1964, with Spider-Man #15, Daredevil #3, Fantastic Four #29, and Journey Into Mystery #107 with Thor. Petey-Wetey! Whee! Several surrenders that get voided by a change in location! Paper-airplane-folding powers! Check it out!
MRC finishes up July 1964 with Tales of Suspense #55 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish #57 with Giant-Man and the Wasp, X-Men #6 and Avengers #6. Notes to Mandy! Nasty, hateful, unpleasant people! Ice cream making powers! Multiple paste-themed villains! Check it out!
We’re back! MRC unmasks the first half of July 1964, with Amazing Spider-Man #14, Fantastic Four #28, Journey Into Mystery #106 with Thor, and Strange Tales #122 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Sparkly fingers! Cult kids! Sudden limping! Roughneck friends! Gulgol! Check it out!
Marvel Reread Club does it all with smoke and mirrors in June 1964, featuring Amazing-Spider-Man #13, Daredevil #2, Fantastic Four #27, Journey Into Mystery #105 with Thor, Strange Tales #121 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #54 with Iron Man and the Watcher, and Tales to Astonish #56 with Giant-Man and the Wasp. Sketchy psychiatrists! Instant welding! Observing the memory images of a passing fish! Unwisely stenciled windows! Moist acorns! Ectoplasmic goons! Rivets! Two heroes with unused engagement rings!
Marvel Reread Club finishes off May 1964 with Tales of Suspense #53 with Iron Man and The Watcher, Tales to Astonish #55 with Giant Man and the Wasp, X-Men #5 and Avengers #5. Overrated playboys! Multidimensional Eclipses! Cellophane Air Chariots! Ice Airlocks! Gluttonousity!
Marvel Reread Club unmasks the first half of May 1964 with Amazing Spider-Man #12, Fantastic Four #26, Journey Into Mystery #104 with Thor, and Strange Tales #120 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Leedit! Emergency Gamma-Ray Treated Capsules! Manspreading! Swinging Teen Cruise Pirates! Shockingly Elaborate Publicity Stunts! Check it out!
Marvel Reread Club applies its heightened senses to April 1964, with Amazing Spider-Man #11, Daredevil #1, Fantastic Four #25, Journey into Mystery #103 with Thor, Strange Tales #119 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #52 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #54 with Giant-Man and the Wasp! Ne’erdowell brothers! Eisner-esque hoods! Three heroes on speedboats! Matt’s long-seeded fear of women! Rabble rousing! Boris and Natasha! Asking your girlfriend to hold your drugs in customs!
Steve and Matt grapple with the first half of March, 1964, featuring Amazing Spider-Man #10, Fantastic Four #24, Journey Into Mystery #102 with Thor and Tales of Asgard, and Strange Tales #118 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Fancy Dan! Photo collages! Unfabulous crowns! Continued lack of spandex! Frau Lieber!
Marvel Reread Club visits Feb-RU-ary 1964, with Spider-Man #9, Fantastic Four #23, Journey Into Mystery #101 with Thor, Strange Tales #117 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #50 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #52 with Ant-Man and the Wasp. Lots of venetian blinds! Solar Waves! The Well of Centuries! Stamp collecting while slimy! De-freckled Pepper! Two different books in which someone leaps down into their helicopter!
Marvel Reread Club wraps up January 1964 with Tales of Suspense #49 with Iron Man (and Tales of the Watcher), Tales to Astonish #51 with Giant-Man and the Wasp (and The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale), X-Men #3, and Avengers #3! Nuclear radiation that turns you evil! Sneepers! Inquisitive little imps! Veterans the Wasp is not attracted to! The one Professor X loves! Giant-Man vs. a bag of flour!
MRC revisits Marvelmania in the first half of January 1964, with Spider-Man #8, Fantastic Four #22, Journey Into Mystery #100 with Thor and Tales of Asgard, and Strange Tales #116 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Tribute to teen-agers! The kookiest hat! Mr. Hyde, the king of the seven seas! Crude pepper receptacles! No Rock Hudson! Psychedelic Strange! Check it out!
Marvel Reread Club goes spinning into December 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man 7, Fantastic Four 21, Journey Into Mystery with Thor 99, Strange Tales with the Human Torch and Dr Strange 114, Tales of Suspense with Iron Man 48, and Tales to Astonish with Ant-Man and the Wasp 50. Gun guns! Perfectly legal incitement to riot! Cliffhangers! Two people pretending they can’t fly! Psychologically intimidating eye-holes! Slippery tops! Check it out!
Marvel Reread Club finishes our look at November 1963 with Tales of Suspense #47 with Iron Man, Tales to Astonish 49 with Giant-Man and the Wasp, X-Men #2 and Avengers #2! Miss Glitter! Pill-popping! Tommy guns at the White House! Three-toed Hulk!
Marvel Reread Club revisits the tragic month of November 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man 6, Fantastic Four 20, Journey Into Mystery 98 with Thor and Tales of Asgard, Strange Tales 114 with Human Torch and Dr Strange. Discarded lizard limbs! Proof that some form of life MUST exist in outer space! Cobra gas! Kirby thrones! Chamber of Commerce sashes! Evil scented candles! More to come in Part 2!
MRC flashes back to October 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man #5, Fantastic Four #19, Journey Into Mystery #97 featuring Thor and Tales of Asgard, Strange Tales #113 with the Human Torch, Tales of Suspense #46 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #48 with Ant-Man and the Wasp. Finger guns! Ill-advised speculation about why people are speaking English! Gigantic magic cows! Evil magic shears! Waddling Khrushchev! Flying gaseous porcupine powers!
Two big meteorites hit Marvel Comics in the second half of September 1963! First we cover Tales to Astonish 47 with Ant-Man and the Wasp, then we tackle X-Men 1 and The Avengers 1! Hypno-jazz! Magneto’s dainty signature! Horse juggling!
Marvel Reread tackles the first half of September, 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man #4, Fantastic Four 18, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor 96, Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch 112, and Tales of Suspense featuring Iron Man 45. Poor photojournalism ethics! The fifth quadrant of the Andromeda Galaxy! Multiple missile test mishaps! Aqua-attractor guns! Cauliflower ears! And just wait until we get to Part 2!
Marvel Reread Club wraps up the rest of August 1963 (or thereabouts). We look at Tales of Suspense 44 with Iron Man, Tales to Astonish 46 with Ant-Man and the Wasp, and the massive Fantastic Four Annual 1 (which may or may not have come out this month.) Casters on sand! Flipped opinions of Don Heck! Knights on squids!
Marvel Reread Club tackles half the comics from August 1963, which means Fantastic Four 17, Journey Into Mystery 95 with Thor, and Strange Tales 111 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Kennedy’s Hair! Duplicated alley cats! Asbestos Man! Black magic experiments! Fun for all!
Marvel Reread Club marches into July 1963! That means Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 16, Journey into Mystery 94 with Thor, Strange Tales 110 with the Human Torch and the debut of Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 43 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish 45 with Ant-Man and the Wasp! Roy Orbison glasses! Acid fish! The Chromosomatic gland! The frightful two! A masterpiece Stan disowned! A second Atlantis! Jousting with iguanas! Check it out!
It’s a new Marvel Reread Club where we read just one issue, June 1963’s Tales to Astonish #44, joined by special guest Jeremy Whitley, the only writer to have written a Marvel comic starring any version of the Wasp in her own book! Pillbox hats! Laughter and gaiety! Sluggards confused with dullards!
t’s June 1963 at Marvel Reread Club! In this episode we tackle Fantastic Four 15, Journey Into Mystery 93 featuring Thor, Strange Tales 109 and Annual 2, both featuring the Human Torch, and Tales of Suspense 42 featuring Iron Man. That leaves one issue which will get its own very special guest episode next time. Predictable organ grinder monkeys! Hypnotic radiation! Imps of laziness! Super-glue filled purses! Projectile ham!
This week, in a break from the show’s usual format, we sit down with Douglas Wolk, the author of “All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told” and discuss his monumental achievement of reading every Marvel comic. We have an epic, wide-ranging discussion about what it all means, whether the older comics are primarily art or artifact, and whether you can make something morally coherent out of a story with so many authors representing fundamentally different eras of American history. And for the first time before a national audience, Douglas debuts his delightful ukulele theme song!
Welcome back to Marvel Reread Club! Today we tackle a whopping seven issues: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Fantastic Four 14, Thor in Journey into Mystery 92, Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos 1, the Human Torch in Strange Tales 108, Iron Man in Tales of Suspense 41, and Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish 43. Alien radio repairmen! Hypno-fish! Making Viking movies for charity! Surprisingly ineffective machine guns! Unbreakable smoke rings! Car juggling! Momentarily non-luscious chicks!
Welcome back to Marvel Reread Club! It’s April 1963, including Fantastic Four 13, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor 91, Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch 107, Tales of Suspense featuring Iron Man 40, and Tales to Astonish featuring Ant-Man 42. Ape astronauts! Convenient belts of strength! Pufferfish powers! Transistor-powered foldable metal! Matt is proven wrong about four different things!
Marvel Reread Club wraps up March 1963 with Thor in Journey Into Mystery no. 90, Human Torch in Strange Tales no. 106, the introduction of Iron Man in Tales of Suspense no. 39, and Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish no. 41! Soft-hearted fools! Matching berets! Filing cabinets filled with rocks! Evil window-washers! Big changes now that Kirby is off the books!
Time for another visit to the Marvel Reread Club! March 1963 is a monumomentous month, so we’ve broken it into two episodes. First we’ll handle the full-length books: Amazing Spider-Man no. 1, Fantastic Four no. 12 and Incredible Hulk no. 6. Masks over masks over masks! An actual card-carrying Communist! Reet!
It’s February 1963 in the Marvel Reread Club, with Fantastic Four #11, Journey Into Mystery #89 featuring Thor, Strange Tales #106 featuring Human Torch, and Tales to Astonish #40 featuring Ant-Man! Lincoln’s Mother! Super-Ventriloquism! Flame Saws! Fake Appendicitis! We bid a sad farewell to Jack Kirby on three more of his comics, but he’ll be back soon with other books, we promise!
Welcome back to Marvel Reread Club! Today we look at Fantastic Four #10, The Incredible Hulk #5, Journey Into Mystery #88 starring Thor, Strange Tales #104 starring The Human Torch, and Tales to Astonish #39 starring Ant-Man. Stan and Jack betray the FF! The Hulk in an Abominable Snowman costume! Cars turn into ice cream! Paste-Pot Pete! Termite armies!
It’s another visit to the Marvel Reread Club! In this episode, we check out December 1962, including Fantastic Four no. 9, Journey Into Mystery no. 87 featuring Thor, Strange Tales no. 103 featuring the Human Torch, and Tales to Astonish no. 38 featuring Ant-Man. Hitchhiking in costume! Fake experimentation! Hypno-Rings! Giant Fly-Paper! Check it out!
Welcome back to the Marvel Reread Club! This episode tackles November 1962, including Fantastic Four no. 8, Incredible Hulk no. 4, Journey Into Mystery no. 86 featuring Thor, Strange Tales no. 102 featuring the Human Torch, and Tales to Astonish no. 37 featuring Ant-Man. Ether buttons! Commies disguised as aliens! Convenient amnesia! Tech bros! Antapults! Check it out!
It is October of 1962! We get our first introduction to Loki, Asgard, Heimdal, and Odin! See the Fantastic Four travel to Planet X! Witness Ant Man using his ant-sized elevator and catapulting onto a mountain of ants! Marvel at Johnny Storm's attempts to cram his public identity back in the box! Cutaway views! Loki standing on a flock of flying pigeons! And so many commies! All in this week's thrilling episode!
We split September 1962 into two episodes, because we had too much to fit into one! In this episode we discuss the Hulk's power of flight (???), the first appearance of the Ant-Man, and Thor defeating a commie dictator!
It's time for another episode of Marvel Reread Club, where Matt and Steve reread every Marvel Comic in order and kibbitz about them! Let’s dive into September, 1962. There were five issues that month and we recorded 100 minutes talking about them, but we decided to split that into two episodes, so this week, for part one, we’ll just be discussing Amazing Fantasy #15 (introducing Spider-Man) and Fantastic Four #6 featuring both Dr. Doom and Namor, the Submariner. Spider-pupils! Unstable molecules! Lots of fun!
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Here we are back again! This is a big month, folks: Fantastic Four #5, introducing Dr. Doom! Journey into Mystery #83, introducing Thor! Incredible Hulk #2, introducing, uh, the Toad Men! A convenient cache of fake beards! Easter Island men from Saturn! Magnetism doing what magnetism can’t really do! Check it out, true believers!
This issue, we’re reading all the superhero comics from February to May of 1962, which means Fantastic Four #3 and #4 and Hulk #1! Mass hypnosis! Walking whales! Passenger Missiles! Lots of fun to be had!
This week we cover January 1962, which means Fantastic Four #2, the first appearance of the Skrulls, and Tales to Astonish #27, the first appearance of Ant-Man (though he’s not Ant-Man yet).
Introducing Marvel Reread Club! This podcast will consist of us rereading every single Marvel superhero comic, starting with the beginning of the Marvel Age, one month at a time, and having fun discussing them. Most episodes will feature multiple comics, but for this first episode, we’ll just discuss the only Marvel comic to come out in November, 1961: Fantastic Four #1!
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We hope you like it! We’re still finding our footing, and will continue to do so. We will actually be releasing this one weekly, at least for a while, every Wednesday (aka, New Comics Day!)
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