Podcast The Classy Comics Podcast

We take a look at the first volume of the Defenders as they join forces to save the planet from various threats, but don't you dare call them a team!Then, on the weekend Carol Danvers' first movie comes out, we take a look at the last volume of her Ms. Marvel series in Ms. Marvel, Volume 9: Best You Can Be.Affiliate links included.

Mary Jane and Peter are worried about their daughter in Amazing Spider-man, Renew Your vows, Volume 4: Annie, Are You Okay?Then it's Carol Danvers and Karla Sofen in an epic smackdown in Ms. Marvel, Vol. 8: War of the Marvels.Affiliate links included.

Meet the original hypocondriac Superhero in the Golden Age Starmarn Archives, Volume 1.Dash is seriously grounded in The Incredibles: Revenge from Below.Affliate links included.

Gene Colan takes on the Dark Knight…and vampires in Tales of the Batman, Gene Colan, Volume 1.Ms. Marvel dies and a new Ms. Marvel emerges in Ms. Marvel, Volume 7: Dark Reign.Affiliate link included

Nightwing faces a new old villain who'd ready to make a deal in Nightwing, Volume 6: The Untouchable.Carol digs into her own past to uncover a great secret in Ms. Volume 6: Ascension.Superman and Lex Luthor come to a crossroads in Superman, Volume 6: Imperius Lex.Affiliate links included.

Batman faces a long fight scene spread over an entire book in Batman Beyond, Volume 3: The Long Payback.Learn the origin of Shepherd Book in Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale.Finally, we turn to the Eleventh Doctors first comic adventures in Doctor Who: The Child of Time.Affiliate links included

Ms. Marvel battles a Skrull invasion in Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5: Secret Invasion.The Twelfth Doctor faces two different types of angels in The Twelfth Doctor: A Confusion of Angels.Heroes of the Public Domain takes a look at a zookeeper superhero. (See Zoot Comics #2)Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz have to get jobs in Green Lanterns, Volume 6: A World of Our Own.Affiliate links included.

It's Clobbering Time as we examine two years worth of Thing team ups in Essential Marvel Two-in-One, Volume 2 .We look at the first Star Wars Comics in Star Wars Legends Epic Collection:The Original Marvel Years, Volume 1 Ms. Marvel battles the Puppet Master and faces a reckoning with the Cru in Ms. Marvel, Volume 4: Monster Smash. Affiliate links included.

Namor's in trouble and needs some help from old friends in Namor Visionaries, John Byrne, Volume 2.The Titans are broken up by the Justice League so that we don't have a team that features a potentially dangerous member walking the streets as this might distract Batman from running his Gotham-based Superhero team featuring Clayface. Learn more in Titans, Volume 4: Titans Apart.Tim Drake tries to avoid becoming future Batman by making the Gotham Knights succeed. However, that's all put at risk when the Victim Syndicate comes after Clayface in Batman, Detective Comics, Volume 6: Fall of the Batman. Affiliate links included.

Miles Morales integrates into a whole new Universe and has to deal with a loving (yet psychotic) grandmother in Miles Morales, Spider-man, Volume 1. Meet Spider-man's cabbie ally in Spider-man's Tangled Web, Volume 2.Miss Marvel gets her own private task force and a chance to repair some of the damage to her reputation from Civil War in Ms. Marvel, Volume 3: Operation Lightning Storm.Affiliate links included

The Flash deals with the Negative Speed Force and then has to solve a murder inside Iron Heights in Flash, Volume 6: Cold Day in Hell.A boy comes from Japan to Gotham looking for his parents in Batman and the Justice League, Volume 1.Wonder Woman and Batman get into a long fight on behalf of the Gentleman and then Poison Ivy takes over the entire world except for Batman and Catwoman in Batman, Volume 6: Bride or Burglar.Ms. Marvel goes full in for hero-on-hero fighting in Civil War: Ms. Marvel, Volume 2.Affiliate link included. 

It's a team-up of classic comic strip characters in Kings Watch.Batgirl and the Birds of Prey have an all-female team to fight a deadly case of man-flu in Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Volume 3: Full Circle.Finally, as the Captain Marvel movie approaches, we take a look at the star of Carol Danvers' Miss Marvel series in Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: Best of the Best.Affiliate link included.Transcript below:King Features comic strip characters join forces to save the Earth, then we take a look at the last volume of Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, and the first volume of the May 2000's Miss Marvel series with Carol Danvers, straight ahead.Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.Alright, well we lead off with a look at King's Watch. Now King's Watch came after Jeff Parker's really good run on Flash Gordon. He did a good Flash Gordon solo series. I'd read it as it came out, it was just a lot of fun – really captured the fu

We cover the second half of Martian Manhunter's solo Silver Age Adventures in Showcase Presents Martian Manhunter, Volume 2.Superman goes back in time in a buddy team-up with Booster Gold in Superman, Action Comics, Volume 5: Booster Shot.And Thor and a group of lesser-known heroes team up with the fate of the Marvel Universe at stake in Avengers Infinity ClassicAffiliates linkes included.Transcript:We take a look at the final series of Martian Manhunter stories from the Silver Age, the final installment of Dan Jurgens recent run on Action Comics, and then we conclude by taking a look at Avengers Infinity Classic, straight ahead.So, we're going to start the show out by taking a look at Showcase Presents Martian Manhunter Volume Two. Now a lot of folks do not like Showcase Presents; in fact, if you take a look at either Showcase Presents or Marvel Essential, you'll have someone complain that comics are all in black and white. And I guess because of those complaints both of those lines have been discontinued,

Damian Wayne, Jonathan Kent, and the Teen Titans faces Tim Drake from the future who wants to kill Jonathan in Super Sons of Tomorrow.A look at last of the Batman Silver Age newspaper strips from 1969-72 in Volume 3 of the Batman Newspaper Strips.Hal Jordan teams up with Superman and then the rest of the Green Lanterns in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 5: Twilight of the GuardiansTranscript below:Tim Drake from the future returns to tamper with history. Join us as we take a look at Super Sons of Tomorrow Volume Three of the Batman newspaper strips collection, and then we take a look at Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp Volume Five, straight ahead.Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.Alright, well, we'll lead off this episode with Super Sons of Tomorrow, and this is a three-way crossover collecting Issues Eleven and Twelve of Super Sons, Superman Issues Thirty-Seven and Thirty-Eight, and Teen

Take a look at the origins of Luke Cage in Luke Cage, Heroes for Hire Masterworks, Volume 1.Then Roger Stern reveals the true identity of the Hobgoblin in Hobgoblin Lives.Finally, see the origin of the Marvel Universe through the eye of a photographer in Marvels.Affiliate links included.Transcript below:We take a look at Luke Cage's first appearance. Find out how the mystery of the Hobgoblin's identity was solved in Hobgoblin Lives. Then we take a look at the beginning of the Marvel Universe from someone else's eye as we take a look at Marvel's on this all-Marvel edition, straight ahead.Well, we start out with Luke Cage, Hero for Hire Masterworks Volume One, and we get the first sixteen Issues of this series from 1972 and '73. We get Luke Cage's origin story in the first couple Issues which are written by Archie Goodwin, and you can definitely see from reading these how Marvel was trying to tap into the Blacksploitation films that were so popular at the time.Luke is a man who has been locked away for a crime

Adam Graham pays tribute to the late, great Stan Lee (1922-2018)Transcript:On a special edition of the Classy Comics Podcast we pay tribute to comic book legend Stan Lee in The Mighty Marvel Manor, straight ahead…Well, it's a different sort of episode of the Classy Comics Podcast as we pay tribute to Stan Lee who passed away at the age of ninety-five, and there's so much that could be said about Stan Lee's legacy. He forgot more about comics than most people knew, and I mean that quite literally. He actually wrote of Captain America being revived in the 1950s and forgot about that return when he wrote Cap's Return in the 1960s, leaving that as an issue to be addressed by other comic writers. And I think there are a couple of areas to look at Stan Lee's legacy.The first one as a writer, and Stan Lee's writing credits go back to the Golden Age of comics. He wrote some very interesting characters – he wrote The Destroyer who is one of my all-time favorite Golden Age character, and probably the first one that Sta

Atomic Robo fights his archnemesis in The Savage Sword of Doctor Dinosaur and then travels back to the Old West in the Knights of the Golden Circle. Superman takes patriotic family vacation in Superman Vol. 5: Hopes and FearsAffiliate link included.Transcripts Below:Atomic Robo battles Dr. Dinosaur and then goes back to the Old West in two different Atomic Robo collections, and then we'll take a look at Superman: Hopes and Fears, straight ahead.Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast, where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.I'd received the Atomic Robo Omnibus Collections, the Hell and Lightning Collection, which contained three different Atomic Robo stories; and so we did the first one in the last podcast and we'll do the last two in this one. So, we'll be discussing Volume Eight and Volume Nine of Atomic Robo. Volume Eight is The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, and the plot is that Robo and a team of scientists from Tesladyne are heading out to invest

We go to the Golden Age for a look at that other DC Super-team in the Seven Soldiers of Victory Archives, Volume 2.We look at the earliest adventures of Superman as a boy in the Adventures of Superboy.Finally, Atomic Robo meets up with a gang of outlaw lady pirates and takes on a rogue Japanese terrorist in Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific.Affiliate links included.Transcript:The Seven Soldiers of Victory go on epic adventures, and we take a look at some early adventures of Superboy, and we wrap it up with a little bit of Atomic Robo. Join us straight ahead.Welcome. Well we're going to start out, we have a couple different Golden Age comics from the 1940s and we start out with the book, The Seven Soldiers of Victory, Archives Volume Two. Now this is not to be confused with Grant Morrison's later series, The Seven Soldiers of Victory. This one is the original; they starred in leading comics in the 1940s and this book was really just their big team up book. And Volume Two of the Seven Soldier

The Tick is mighty! So mighty that he got me to break my rule of only reviewing trades as we look at New England Comics latest Tick comics including Issues 1-4 of the new series and the Free Comic Book Day issue. Transcript:The Tick is Mighty. Join us as we take a look at the latest comic book adventures of The Tick.The Tick is a much-beloved character, probably best remembered for his 1990s Fox animated TV series; and there'd been two subsequent live-action series, one of which will have new episodes. I believe in February 2019 we'll get Season Two of the Tick for Amazon Prime. Now most people know that the Tick began as a comic book but the Tick’s relationship to a regular publishing schedule is a bit strange. The first issue of the Tick appeared thirty years ago, and in those thirty years there have been 100-odd issues of the Tick. Some of those actually were very odd but, be that as it may, that averages out to just about three to four comics per year. There have been quite a few ongoing Tick series as we

The Silver Surfer faces his last days in Silver Surfer: Requiem.Jack-jack has a disease and it's giving others Superpowers in Incredibles: City of the Incredibles.And the Marvel Universe is rebooted…sorta in the 2015 Secret Wars.Transcript below:We take a look at Silver Surfer: Requiem, The Incredibles: City of the Incredibles, and 2015s Secret Wars, straight ahead.Welcome to the Classy Comics Podcast where we search for the best comics in the universe. From Boise, Idaho here is your host, Adam Graham.Alright, well we're going to start our review looking at Silver Surfer: Requiem, a mini series written by JMS, the creator of Babylon Five and a writer on a wide variety of comic books series both for DC and Marvel as well as Indie Work. This is a kind of What If… story dealing with the potential death of the Silver Surfer that was released back in 2007. For context, it's important to remember that Grant Morrison had launched his series, All-Star Superman, back in 2005 which focused on Superman trying to make su