Steve’s 4th dive into solo Sub-Mariner stories, this time with Tales to Astonish #95-99 from 1967 as Namor encounters The Plunderer! Then Kevin and Andrew join Steve for a Super-Villain Classic from Captain America #231-236 featuring Doctor Faustus and guest-starring Daredevil! We wrap up with overflow from last episode’s summertime reading Recent Reads Roundtable, including an update on the X-Books, their close association to the current Iron Man series, Blade’s new book, another send-off for Nick Fury, Spider-Man Manga, Daredevil, G.I. Joe, The Scarlet Witch, a new Moon Knight limited series, and a golden-age Sub-Mariner tale from the pages of Blonde Phantom #17! #MN418
This month host Ed Moore discusses Usagi’s adventures as originally shown in Volume 1 from Fantagraphics issue 11 now in color from IDW on sale March 31, 2021.
Andy claims background noise can drive you crazy but maybe Phil, Kevin, and Steve think it’s more likely to happen with Ode to Clarissa, but comics, and toys, and movies, and video games?!
Judge Dredd #26 by John Wagner, Alan Grant (aka “T.B. Grover” for Wagner and Grant), Barry Kitson (Reprint from 2000AD #484) and other stories also included in it (Quality Comics)
Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghost OGN by Joel Rose, Anthony Bourdain, Alberto Ponticelli, Vanesa Del Rey, Leonardo Manco, Mateus Santolouco Sebastian Cabrol, Paul Pope, Irene Koh, Franesco Francavilla (Berger Books imprint of Dark Horse Comics) https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3000-827/Anthony-Bourdains-Hungry-Ghosts-HC
It’s the first part of our what’cha-been-reading-this-summer Giant-Size Recent Reads Summer Spectacular, featuring What If…?, The Incredible Hulk, Thunderbolts, The Punisher, The Amazing Spider-Man, Thor, Ultimate Invasion, The X-Books, Alien, and more! #MN417
Not that Lost at Sea as Kevin, Andy and Phil fumble though 1’s and 0’s in the internet (like another famous character) to make another quick episode happen.
The “Jeremy” referenced by Andy is “Jeremy Bastian”
Phil is now into Manga
All Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Hard Cover Reprint by Orrin C. Evans, George J. Evans, Jr., John H. Terrell, WIlliam H. Smith, Leonard Cooper, remastered by Tony Washington. There are essays included as well and modern versions by Micah Peters, Ray-Anthony Height, Zipporah Smith, Manny Edeko, Deron Bennett, Domo Stanton, Chris Robinson, Ryan Marlow, Jasmine Hatcher, Sharean Morishita. (ANC75 but also a Kickstarter).
This time out host Ed Moore continues his look at the Kirby construct Captain victory looking at v1 issue 5 the only book from Pacific comics this month, published March 1982.
