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UncategorizedDecember 3, 2017

Treasury Edition 01 – Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics

In this special Treasury Edition we take a break from looking at comics to review the first episode of Robert Kirkman’s new documentary series…

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Comics, PodcastApril 14, 2017

Panel Breakouts Episode 010: Jack Kirby & the end of war!

This episode briefly looks at war comics and Jack Kirby’s work for the final issues of Battle at the end of the fifties. We…

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Comics, PodcastJanuary 15, 2017

Panel Breakouts Episode 009: Love Romances #85

We take a quick peek at the type of Romance anthology comic that the Marvel team was producing just before they created the superhero…

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Comics, PodcastJanuary 2, 2017

Panel Breakouts Episode 008: Teen-age Crossovers

How the idea of the Marvel interconnected universe – where heroes would crossover or “guest star” in each other’s books – first occurred in…

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Comics, PodcastOctober 2, 2016

Panel Breakouts Episode 007: Young Romance #1 (1947)

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Young Romance #1 (1947) launched the genre of the Romance comic which, at one point in the 1950s, sold…

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Comics, PodcastJuly 27, 2016

Panel Breakouts Episode 006: Miss America Magazine #2 (1944)

Patsy Walker’s first appearance is in Miss America Magazine #2. Nov 1944 cover date in a seven page introductory story pencilled and inked by…

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Comics, PodcastJuly 3, 2016

Panel Breakouts Episode 005: Venus (1948)

In her excellent history of American Romance comics, Love on the Racks, Michelle Nolan describes Venus as Marvel’s first attempt to match a character…

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Comics, PodcastJune 15, 2016

Panel Breakouts Episode 004: Crazy, Wild & Riot (1953-4)

Never to underestimate a trend, Atlas produced 3 imitations of MAD within months of the comic’s first issue – Crazy, Wild and Riot (3…

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Comics, PodcastJune 5, 2016

Panel Breakouts Episode 003: Dippy Duck (1957)

Dippy Duck was the last of Timely/Atlas’ Animal Funnies with a cover date of October 1957. It’s also the last comic to bear the…

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Comics, PodcastMay 29, 2016

Panel Breakouts Episode 002: Homer the Happy Ghost (1955 to 1958)

Homer the Happy Ghost was a bi-monthly kids humour comic that ran for 22 issues between 1955 and 1958. It was clearly another of…

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Unstable Molecules

Unstable Molecules podcast explores the early years of the Marvel comics universe.

Each episode takes a look at the first few issues of each title starting with the Atlas heroes revival before moving on to the birth of the Marvel Universe with Fantastic Four #1. After that future episodes will cover Ant-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Spider-man and Thor.

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    Annie Oakley first appears in her 1948 comic.

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    He just can’t catch a break! (Kid Colt Outlaw 91, July 1960)
    Art by Jack Keller.

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    WHAP! Fist-fighting his way through the Torgun Gang.
    Kid Colt Outlaw 90 (May 1960), Jack Keller art.

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    Crooked sheriff punched off a cliff in Kid Colt Outlaw #11 (October 1950)

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    The origin from Kid Colt Outlaw #11, October 1950
    (Is that art by Joe Maneeley?)

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    Gosh, he has good eyesight! Art by Don Heck.
    from Love Romances #85 (January 1960)

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    Please don’t tell me you’re going to fall for this would-be sexual assaulter’s phoney remorse! Art by Jay Scott Pike.
    from Love Romances #85 (January 1960)

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    No has to mean no! Art by Jay Scott Pike.
    from Love Romances #85 (January 1960)

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    Oh dear! It’s the woman’s fault again (as it often was in those Romance comics). Vince Colletta art.
    from Love Romances #85 (January 1960)

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    Robert L Bryant on Vince Colletta’s inking
    from The Thin Black Line, p.16

Recent Posts

  • Treasury Edition 01 – Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 010: Jack Kirby & the end of war!
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 009: Love Romances #85
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 008: Teen-age Crossovers
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 007: Young Romance #1 (1947)
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