Bronze-Age Monsters

For our final season, we're covering the short life of Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics by reviewing all the debut issues from their line.  What do you get when you make a stew out of Orwell's 1984 heavily seasoned with Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and generous pinches of A Clockwork Orange and a dash of The Time Machine ? Why, Michael Fleisher 's crazy dystopian body horror sci-fi book MORLOCK...

For our final season, we're covering the short life of Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics by reviewing all the debut issues from their line.  This episode, we cover Seaboard's swipe at Warren Publishing and Marvel's Curtis magazines...the horror anthology DEVILINA! Watch it on YouTube with BEAUTIFUL B&W ART ! https://youtu.be/Az-xzgNzgzE MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronz...

We make the Shadow Show every other week for our Patreon supporters, but we're giving this one out as a sample. If you enjoy, consider backing the show on Patreon for future episodes and access to the archives of previous eps. We discuss Marv Wolfman and Steve Gan's wonderfully bizarre SKULL THE SLAYER wherein a Vietnam War POW returns home and everything gets worse...then he and plane full of peo...

For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience.  YOUTUBE VERSION: https://youtu.be/oM815qWFhS8 This episode, we cover a creative dream team assembled for the 1 straight superhero book of the line: Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko, and Wallace "Wally" Wood. READ ALL 4 ISSUES OF THE DESTRUCTOR ON ARCHIVE.ORG: https://archive.org/details...

For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience.  YOUTUBE VERSION: https://youtu.be/1mfM4Fnpw_Q This episode, we're joined by friend of the show M.J. to cover Martin Goodman's one demand: he wanted a Hulk knock-off. He got a murderous thawed Missing Link instead, written by Michael Fleisher with art by Mike Sekowsky & Pablo Marcos...

For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience.  YOUTUBE VERSION: https://youtu.be/7pCHU3EL7Ds This episode, we cover Jeff Rovin & Sal Amendola's messianic sci-fi hero PHOENIX!  When catastrophe strikes a space mission, lone surviving astronaut Ed Tyler is recovered in the North Pole by a race of aliens who have remained hidden f...

For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience.  YOUTUBE VERSION: https://youtu.be/gHSGiELg6vw We're in our final season and we're reviewing all of Atlas/Seaboard's #1 issues. Next up, Michael Fleisher and Mike Sekowsky's IRONJAW ! In the distant future the Earth is a ravaged wasteland with only one law--survival of the fittest....

The Saga of Satana continues! The Devil's Daughter seeks a back door into her father's realm to warn him of the mutinous plans of The Four . On the way, she is reunited with a childhood companion, the incubus Zannarth , and they encounter pack of hellish demons sent to stop them. From The Haunt of Horror #2 (July, 1974) by Gerry Conway & Enrique Badía Romero . CAST: Athena Howell as Satana, Jacob...

For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience.  YOUTUBE VERSION: https://youtu.be/dKoNBvy3i4k We're in our final season and we're reviewing all of Atlas/Seaboard's #1 issues. First up, Michael Fleisher and Ernie Colón's THE GRIM GHOST! A colonial highwayman bandit goes from the gallows, to the Inferno, to 1970s America as a coll...

We took to YouTube to review "Death Smiles Thrice!" from  Weird War Tales #121 and the one-page conlusion to the Commandos' story from the final issue, "Destination Unknown!" We were joined by friends of the show via video and chat and had a great time. Watch the video on YouTube : https://youtube.com/live/Mb7msRNmpPA?feature=share We'll see you in January for the final season! Happy holidays! MAI...

Fed up with being feared and despised by the civilians they protect, the Commandos jump at a chance to see if the world of 2943 holds an opportunity for them to return to their human states. It gets a little weird. MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonsters.threadless.com/ SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/BronzeAgeMonsters DISCORD: https://discord.gg/NcFaq9Ednq

We've got double your monster pleasure with WWT #117's "A Miracle for Monsters!" and 118's "Heroes Come in Small Sizes" as the Commandos are finally free of Lt. Shrieve and, without a commanding officer, take in the sights of war-time Paris. Then, we learn how they were awarded medals from the King of England! MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonsters.threadless.com/ SUP...

We're joined by death metal god Matt Harvey ( Exhumed , Gruesome , et al) for a jumbled tale of Roman gods, mis-used monsters, and a conversation about how invested Robert Kanigher really was in this book. Check out Matt's music on Bandcamp: https://mattharveymustbedestroyed.bandcamp.com & Exhumed https://exhumed.bandcamp.com/music MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonste...

Meet the new J.A.K.E., same as the old J.A.K.E.... or his he? Sgt. Coker & the G.I. Robot get leave in dear old Blighty and end up personal guests of a royal princess in a castle in Scotland! Is this G.I. Robot a pile of nuts and bolts or does he have the capacity to love? The Creature Commandos are also there. MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonsters.threadless.com/ SU...

OUR 100th BONUS SHOW IS FREE TO ALL! WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE W/ THE ART HERE : https://youtu.be/G8CI70uQ4ms Back us on Patreon to access the archive of 99 previous episodes and tons of members-only content! We cover "Return from Oblivion" ...Part 8 of the Ulysses Bloodstone Saga , written by John Warner w/ pencils by Val Mayerik and finishes & inks by Sonny Trinidad.  We talk about what we'll be doing...

We're joined by Marvel by Month 's Bryan Stratton & Jamie Wenger! Forget Schrödinger's cat; we've got Kanigher's comic. How can a war comic be both ridiculously surreal and disturbingly real at the same time? The commandos go deep undercover in Germany as a traveling circus freakshow to kidnap Einstein's bomb buddy from a Nazi concentration camp!  If you aren't already subscribed to MbtM, you're c...

After Rommel lands a crushing blow on the Allied forces in Tunisia, the Creature Commandos are sent in to keep the Afrika Corps off balance until reinforcements arrive. Did YOU know about this? Why wasn't this part in the history books??! Anyway, yadda yadda: an ancient gorgon pyramid tomb and some magic wine later, we have doll-sized monsters. All in a day's work for our "freaks." MAIL: bronzeage...

Kanigher's newest new G.I. Robot, J.A.K.E. #1 meets up with our motley crew of monstrous misfits when they return to the South Pacific to investigate some mysterious attacks on Allied ships. The resulting adventure defies pithy blurb explanations! MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonsters.threadless.com/ SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/BronzeAgeMonsters DISCORD...

We took to the YouTubes for the introduction of the newest Commando. If the goal was to tap into humanity's collective unconscious and use our most ancient and intuitive fears as a weapon against our enemies: it doesn't get much older or scarier than our newest "freak"... HISS HISS! You can watch the episode (w/ art included!) HERE . ( https://youtube.com/live/bBob95RBGaA?feature=share ) MAIL: bro...

We're joined by Ryan Pardee, co-host of The No Ticket Podcast, to talk about the final J.M. DeMatteis-written issue and the 1st issue from veteran comics writer Robert Kanigher. Remember the mission to find French scientist Dr. Frederique? That comes up again (cool!)...with some tragic consequences (sad!). Kanigher's story is 1 part The Dam Busters , 1 part Dr. Strangelove , and 1 part Force 10 fr...

We're joined by friend of the show Grace to talk about 2 short and wild Creature Commandos stories from J.M. DeMatteis and Fred Carrillo. This one's got it all: super-strength brainwashed Nazi kids, latex masks, trapdoors, Hitler doubles, and a Norman Rockwell-esque village in upstate NY crawling with Axis sympathizers.  MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonsters.threadle...

Mike W. Barr takes up writing duties as Lt. Shrieve and his "Freaks" are deployed to Dinosaur Island from The War That Time Forgot stories of DC's past. The Allies' pet monsters encounter Japanese troops and a whole mess of "Thunder Lizards." Plus, Matt's daughter Athena judges the haiku contest. Art by Bob Hall & Jerry Ordway. We'll be back next week with more Ulysses Bloodstone monster hunting a...

We're bi-weekly now! On our off weeks, we'll be publishing 'shadow show' that covers different bronze-age goodness. During Season 6, we'll be looking at the life and times of immortal monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone. We're making the first part a freebie for all to check out. We HIGHLY recommend you check out the video version w/ art HERE . We'll be making audio-only versions like this one avail...

We have had requests for the Season 5 finale to be published as audio only. Here it is. MAIL: bronzeagemonsters@gmail.com   STORE: https://bronzeagemonsters.threadless.com/ SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/BronzeAgeMonsters DISCORD: https://discord.gg/NcFaq9Ednq VM: 971-220-JUNK

We kick off our first non-Marvel season with TWO short stories from Weird War Tales: "The Creature Commandos!" and "The Faceless Enemy" written by J.M. DeMatteis with art from Pat Broderick, John Celardo, and Fred Carrillo.  The U.S. has created Project M to use man's inherent fear of monsters to give the Allies the advantage in the war against the Axis forces...with explosive results.  MAIL: bron...