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Bruce recounts Fantastic Four issues 48 - 50, the Stan Lee & Jack Kirby version of the first meeting of the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer, and Galactus. WARNING: If you consider my telling you the story of a 40 year old comic book, then this is spoiler filled! BEWARE, LISTEN AT YOUR OWN PERIL! Thanks to Chris Marshall at the Collected Comics Library podcast for research help with this segment. We follow that with Scott Cederlunds first audition for a celebrity host for his Wednesday's Haul podcast. Jon and Stephen each do their BOP's, solo. Bruce's BOP can be heard on the N3RDcast podcast for July 9th, 2007 (warning! Can be explicit!)
Frazier Irving, the incomparable illustrator behind the stunning visuals for Seven Soldiers: Klarion, the Witch Boy, Iron Man: The Inevitable, and Marvel's current hard-hitting Silent War miniseries, stops by to offer us a mindbending glimpse into his creative process. In the second half, Scott Cederlund of Wednesday's Haul joins us in a disussion on Civil War #7 and the miniseries as a whole. Plus, Jack King Kirby, bad acting from Roger Corman's seldom-seen Fantastic Four film, a special appearance by Around Comics' Chris Neseman and Brian Salazar, and more!
In the first hour, we butt heads on The Irredeemable Ant-Man #3, David praises Peter David, Scot Eaton, and company's work on Friendly Neighboorhood Spider-Man #15, and VinceB launches a long assessment of the second volume of the Essential Defenders! The Pop Cult Online's Rick Gordon and Kevin Moyer from Comic Geek Speak drop by in our second half to help us find books for new readers not familiar with the mighty Marvel Universe! Bonus! The Collected Comics Library's Chris Marshall drops some science for new readers! Scott Cederlund of Wednesday's Haul gets desperate in the wake of Civil War: The Return! Around Comics' Tom Katers! The Big Largeness! Francis E. Dec, Esq.! All this and the usual pop culture weirdness that is Bullpen Bulletins!
Jefferson Workman, Chris Equinox Chavez, and Scott Cederlund from Wednesday's Haul drop by to help us through the second half of the Marvel Previews catalog number 40 (for books shipping in February 2007)! Plus, Frank Zappa warns on the dangers of Speed and reads a few paragraphs from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch! Bonus! Chad and Mr. Zombie! Dada poetry! Bigfoot! A cocky stage hypnotist! Bryon Gysin on junk, baby! Leeloo! Yoko Ono! A holiday song in German! Loud Boy! A demonic possession! More!
My thoughts on Heroes Con, Dennis the Menace Giant Christmas Issue #19 (Winter 1963), "Wednesday's Haul," a new comic collecting horror story, James Bond comic strip online.