Episodios

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

    Treasury Edition 01 – Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics
    Dec 3 2017
    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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    21 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 010: Jack Kirby & the end of war!

    Panel Breakouts Episode 010: Jack Kirby & the end of war!
    Apr 14 2017

    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 take a look at Kirby’s covers and stories in Battle issues 64-70 (June 1959 to June 1960). Accompanying information:
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    26 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 009: Love Romances #85

    Panel Breakouts Episode 009: Love Romances #85
    Jan 15 2017
    We take a quick peek at the type of Romance anthology comic that the Marvel team was producing just before they created the superhero universe.
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    18 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 008: Teen-age Crossovers

    Panel Breakouts Episode 008: Teen-age Crossovers
    Jan 2 2017
    How the idea of the Marvel interconnected universe - where heroes would crossover or “guest star” in each other’s books - first occurred in the teen comics for girls - with characters like Patsy Walker, Millie the Model, Kathy Carter and others.
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    17 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 007: Young Romance #1 (1947)

    Panel Breakouts Episode 007: Young Romance #1 (1947)
    Oct 2 2016
    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 more than any other genre. It's influence was felt in the early Marvel superhero comics,
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    11 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 006: Miss America Magazine #2 (1944)

    Panel Breakouts Episode 006: Miss America Magazine #2 (1944)
    Jul 27 2016
    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 Ruth Atkinson.
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    8 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 005: Venus (1948)

    Panel Breakouts Episode 005: Venus (1948)
    Jul 3 2016
    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 to whatever trend she seemed to fit at the time.
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    8 m
  • Panel Breakouts Episode 004: Crazy, Wild & Riot (1953-4)

    Panel Breakouts Episode 004: Crazy, Wild & Riot (1953-4)
    Jun 15 2016
    Never to underestimate a trend, Atlas produced 3 imitations of MAD within months of the comic’s first issue - Crazy, Wild and Riot (3 titles) which saw 1st issues in December 1953, February 1954 and April 1954 - followed by Snafu later on. Atlas was the only company to produce more than 1 MAD imitation.
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    7 m