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Episode 13 - Murdock and Marvel: 1975 It's 1975. Things are improving a bit in the world but in comics the race continues to fill up newsstands. With that, we start seeing more company causalities if you weren't D.C. or Marvel. We have 2 comic gods duking it out in the rookie of the year and in the spotlight this week, we see Daredevil take on... A comic book character!?!?! Preshow Recap of Dan and Sienna's C2E2 and their panel The Year in Comics The Big Stories Industry Trends 1975 Top 10 comics The Year in Marvel Average of about 40 comics per month published, for a total of 474. Most were in the Marvel Universe. Tons of new titles, and also tons of cancellations. They were trying for new markets and new readers. New Titles (and lots of reprints) Series Ending New Characters Big Moments Who's in the Bullpen ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: John Byrne The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil #117-128, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #8, Giant-Size Defenders #3, Thor #233, Defenders #24-25 A number of writers worked on Daredevil this year: Starting with Chris Claremont and Steve Gerber in 117, Gerry Conway in 118, Tony Isabella in 119-122, Len Wein and Marv Wolfman in 124. Marv Wolfman finished the year as writer. William Robert (Bob) Brown provides art for most of those and is joined by Klaus Jansen starting with issue #124 The year starts with the Owl trying to steal Daredevils mind but he agrees to release him if Black Widow kidnaps someone – who turns out to be Shanna the She-Devil. The two women work together to trick the Owl and save Daredevil. Daredevil lost his billy club at the end of last year, but it returns thanks to Ivan Petrovich. Though Black Widow returns to San Francisco. Next Daredevil takes on the Circus of Crime and saves New York City from being hypnotized and lose all their money. Though one member – Blackwing gets away. Daredevil then sees Pop Fenton, his dad's old trainer, and attempts to save him and his former boxer – now priest – Father Gawaine from Juan Aponte who's been working with a doctor who's recreated Iron Man villain the Crusher strength formula. After the battle, he dies in Pop Fenton's arms. New Years arrives and Black Widow comes to visit and they attend a New Year's Eve party thrown by Foggy Nelson – though Widow isn't happy about it. Though it was for the best because agents of Hydra attack being led by El Jaguar. We learn they are after Foggy because SHIELD is intending to have him join their advisory committee. Eventually Foggy is captured by Hydra when Foggy gives himself up to save Black Widow from the Dreadnought. Black Widow and Daredevil scour the city looking for Foggy and end up fighting El Jaguar and Blackwing who turns out to be the son of Supreme Hydra – Silvermane – as Fury's forces head into a trap. They are able to avoid the trap with Life Model Decoys. In a final battle with Hydra, the Black Widow destroys the Dreadnought by shooting it in its only weak spot. Daredevil then goes up against Jackhammer and easily defeats him. El Jaguar is knocked out by Dum Dum Dugan, and Man-Killer is incapacitated when Ivan places a jamming device on her exoskeleton. With their plan failing, Blackwing and Silvermane make a hurried escape and the remaining Hydra agents are captured. Next Daredevil takes on Copperhead – a real life recreation of a 1930s comic book. This two book arc is this week's spotlight. A new Torpedo show up looking to complete an important mission but when he's killed during a battle with Daredevil, former pro quarterback Brock Jones takes the costume and wants to complete the mission. Those two then fight as Jones attempts to explain the mission. In the process they destroy the home of an innocent family. When the mother yells at them for the destruction, they stop fighting and leave. As the year ends, Murdock says he's done being Daredevil but it doesn't last long as he's needed to take on Death-Starker who's stealing artifacts from museums in an attempt to build a powerful weapon. In their final battle, Death-Stalker ends up disappearing while standing on a platform near a mysterious Sky-Walker. New Powers, Toys or Places New Supporting Characters New Villains This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #124 Aug 1975 "In the Coils of the Copperhead!" and Daredevil #125 Sep 1975 “Vengeance Is the Copperhead!” Recap Why We Picked This Story The Takeaway Inmates running the asylum Questions or comments We'd love to hear from you! Email us at questions@comicsovertime.com or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime. ------------------ THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm. You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra's Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details. The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years. Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics. This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss. This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. BOOKLIST The following books have been frequently used as reference while preparing summaries of the comic history segments of our show. Each and every one comes recommended by Dan for fans wanting to read more about it! Licari, Fabio and Marco Rizzo. Marvel: The First 80 Years: The True Story of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon. London: Titan Books, 2020. This book is sort of a mess, as the print quality is terrible, and Titan doesn't even credit the authors unless you check the fine print. It's like this was published by Marvel in the early 60s! But the information is good, and it is presented in an entertaining fashion. So its decent, but I would recommend you see if you can just borrow it from the library instead of purchasing. Wells, John. American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964. Raleigh: Two Morrows, 2015. Not cheap, but a fantastic series that is informative and fun to read. Wright, Bradford. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. This is the revised edition. Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History. New York: DK Publishing, 2022. The academic in my rails at using information from any work that doesn't have an author credit, but this is a decent (if very surface) look at each year in the history of Timely / Marvel from 1939 to 2021. Cowsill, Alan et al. DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual History. New York: DK Publishing, 2010. Because its nice to occasionally take a peek at what the Distinguished Competition is up to. Dauber, Jeremy. American Comics: A History. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022. An excellent, relatively compact history of the domestic comic industry from its 19th century origins through to recent 21st century developments. An excellent successor to Bradford Wright's Comic Book Nation.
Episode 01 Original Origin Duane and Dan start off their run through the history of Moon Knight with a look at his earliest appearances. Is he a villain? A hero? A throwaway character who accidentally took a star turn? Its an episode filled with werewolves, Life Model Decoys, and all the craziness that was 1970s Marvel! The Stack for this week includes: Werewolf By Night #32 and #33 Marvel Spotlight #28 and #29 Defenders #47 to #51 The Spectacular Spider-Man #22 and #23 Marvel Two-In-One #52 * All of these are available online through Marvel Unlimited. They are also collected in the Moon Knight Epic Collection: Bad Moon Rising. Questions or comments We'd love to hear from you! Email questions@phasesofthemoonknight.com or find us on Twitter @phasesofmk
Minute Twenty-Six: From Credit for Pepper to ‘Phil?'Matthew Costello, author of Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America, joins us in this episode!In the twenty-sixth minute of The Avengers...It's hard to go wrong with the Tony/Pepper dynamic. That certainly holds true with Robert Downey Jr./Gwyneth Paltrow as well. They clearly are movie stars and carry a real sense of connection on screen. Plus, the writing here stands out as exceptional character material. We talk a lot about them and their relationship, as well as how it's grown from the first Iron Man film to now. That, of course, allows us to bring Agent Phil Coulson into the conversation as he enters the room. He's been around since the start as well, and there's definitely a sense of the relationships growing over time from then to now for all three of them. We talk about all of that, plus life model decoys! Tune in!Join the conversation with movie lovers from around the world on The Next Reel's Discord channel!Film SundriesWatch this film: iTunes • Amazon • YouTube • Disney+Join the conversation on DiscordScriptTrailer #1Trailer #2Poster artworkOriginal MaterialSeason 6 Show Art by Winston Yabo. Find him on InstagramSeason 6 Music: “Message to the World” by Anthony Vega. Find him on InstagramGet your copy of Matthew's book ‘Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America'(00:00) - Marvel Movie Minute • Season 6 • The Avengers
Episode 01 Original Origin Duane and Dan start off their run through the history of Moon Knight with a look at his earliest appearances. Is he a villain? A hero? A throwaway character who accidentally took a star turn? Its an episode filled with werewolves, Life Model Decoys, and all the craziness that was 1970s Marvel! The Stack for this week includes: Werewolf By Night #32 and #33 Marvel Spotlight #28 and #29 Defenders #47 to #51 The Spectacular Spider-Man #22 and #23 Marvel Two-In-One #52 * All of these are available online through Marvel Unlimited. They are also collected in the Moon Knight Epic Collection: Bad Moon Rising. Questions or comments We'd love to hear from you! Email questions@phasesofthemoonknight.com or find us on Twitter @phasesofmk
Marvel dropped trailers for Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame in the same week, and our heads exploded in anticipation. RIP Jon, Tim, and Travis. But we were prepared for this: our hosts have been replaced by Life Model Decoys. Captain Marvel Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1BCujX3pw8 Infinity War Endgame Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee1172yeqyE
This week on We Be Geeks: We are all together again to talk all things geek! Agents of Shield has continued to improve with each season. From Inhumans to LMS’s (Life Model Decoys.) Supposedly longtime viewers will be rewarded once the third season 4 arc has been revealed. Peter Capaldi is expected to leave Doctor […]
Today’s topic is Technology in Comics - and wouldn’t you know it, in typical Deviant fashion, us being a bit underprepared results in one of our most interesting discussions yet! We talk Iron Man (obis), Batman (again, duh), Transmetropolitan, Batgirl, Life Model Decoys, Avengers Identicards, and many, many other bits of gadgetry and nonsense-science in comics!
CIA: Cinematically Informed Americans is a show on the Lucid Geek Speak channel of podcasts. Today we look at movie news, discuss Planet of the Apes, Netflix recommendations, geek news, and give a definitive answer to the question: Does Nicholas Cage suck?(Also, want to give a special shoutout to Marlee for helping put together our intro/outro song, and Andy for doing the voiceover. He will definitely be on as a guest in the future)Right Click HERE and select save link asNetflix Recommendations for Instant Streaming:Jordan:1.VHSFredd:1. Griff: The InvisibleSean:1.InkMovie Recommendations outside of Netflix:Sean: Seven Psychopaths The Perks of Being A WallflowerFredd: The VikingsJordan: The Watch---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fred: Enjoying violence in movies is okay, as longs as an erection does not follow the elation.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fred: Chainsaw safety cannot be overemphasized---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fred: I didn't watch Cliffhanger because I wanted to watch people scaling mountains. I want to see people shooting at people scaling mountains.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fred: If you're playing an Alzheimer patient, do you even read the script?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Distant ThunderStarring John Lithgow and the Karate Kid (aka Ralph Macchio)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tried to find the speech at the end, but Fox has that locked down. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Are Sean and Jordan off base?---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cobie SmuldersDefinitely a porn name---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Life Model Decoys: Ridiculous!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Maybe he could be in it!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Some love for Michael Giacchino---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sean: May we shouldn't dog on baseball too much so we don't alienate anyone.Fred: I say, "fuck those people."---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sean: Based on that (Nicholas Cage naming his son Kal-El) alone, I think we have to say that Nicholas Cage does not suck.Fredd: You are a dirty, cheating, motherfucker because you know I can't argue with that.Doesn't suck....half the time---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Worst moment in the movie, for Sean anyway.
Brad and John (or possibly their Life Model Decoys) bring back special guest Russ to discuss the latest news and developments in the world of S.H.I.E.L.D. Filming of the pilot begins Tuesday, January 22nd!
Brad and John (or possibly their Life Model Decoys) bring back special guest Russ to discuss the latest news and developments in the world of S.H.I.E.L.D. Filming of the pilot begins Tuesday, January 22nd!