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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Panel Breakouts Episode 001: Patsy Walker #95 (1961)
Over the last year I’ve been reading and researching material for the Unstable Molecules podcast, looking at the influences on the early Marvel universe’s…
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