Podcast The Classy Comics Podcast

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