Flea Market Fantasy

Miles Watson returns for his eight guest appearance! (But then, who's keeping track?) This week, we review the first appearance of the post-Crisis Spectre, who's a lot like the pre-Crisis Spectre. Don't worry, everything is explained. In extensive, exquisite, exhausting detail. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Shock-Tober 2021 begins at Flea Market Fantasy! Steve Gerber, Val Mayerik & Jack Abel present a horrific tale of monsters, murder and excessively long speech bubbles. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Who needs Pony Boy and Johnny, when you've got Geo-Force and Looker? Batman's former protegés strike out on their own, just in time to face the threat of...The Nuclear Family! 32 pages of non-stop fun from Mike W. Barr & Jim Aparo. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Kevin Jank joins Mike-DELL and MikeD-EL for another hour o' fun. Ann Nocenti and Art Adams create the 90s with their ground-breaking limited series about a three-fingered, two-hearted, one-mulletted non-mutant with no memory. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Joshua Murr-VELL joins Mikes EL and DELL. Walt Simonson's explosive debut on Thor, featuring the debut of the horse-faced replacement for the God of Thunder.

Mike Friedrich & Bob Brown (but NOT Jim Starlin) present a story set on Counter-Earth, the duplicate planet that's 2/3 the size of regular Earth, featuring Adam Warlock, the artificial human that is 2/3 as cool as Adam Yauch. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

A look back at the comic that inspired one great film and one terrible one. "Battleground Manhattan" by John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell and Bob Lewis is 23 pages long, and *at least* two things happen. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Marvel Fanfare #10 is the subject of this week's episode. Ralph Macchio and George Pérez, Bob Layton + Luke McDonnell preset a story of action, intrigue and exposition! www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Elliot Brown, John Morelli, Herb Trimpe, Joe Sinnott & Tom Morgan turn the world upside down (and then rightside up again) with their contribution to the New Universe. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

In 1986, Frank Miller redefined Batman with The Dark Knight Returns, wrote Daredevil's defining arc with Born Again, and helped redefine the comics medium with Elektra Assassin. Bob "Pork Carrot" Meyers joins Mike-DELL & Mike-EL for another in-depth discussion about everyone's favourite pastime.

Cousin Brandon joins Mikes EL and DELL for a look at his favourite comic book from his childhood that he has no memory ever reading. Bonecrusher, Duchard & Riordan (?) guest star in the six hundredth issue of DC's longest running title. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Big Kang Baby! Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, Joe Staton + Dave Cockrum offer up a comic that Kurt Busiek calls the greatest Avengers story ever written!

Ultimate Superman Reborn! Kevin Jank joins Mike-EL & Mike-DELL for the ONE HUNDREDTH episode of your favourite podcast. Before he could go on to ruin Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, and the Doom Patrol, John Byrne ruined Superman! It was 1986, and DC Comics decided Superman needed a change. So, instead of going with proposals by Frank Miller, Steve Gerber or Alan Moore, DC went with Mr. Fixit himself. S...

Journey back to World War II for an all-new Golden Age adventure. Roy Thomas, Frank Robbins + Vince Colletta present: "...And Let the Battle Begin!"

Gerry Conway & Pat Broderick re-introduce everyone's favourite matter transmuting superhero...the one with the head that's on fire, and whose sleeves are baggy and blouse-like: Firestorm! www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Miles Watson joins Mikes DELL and EL for a look at a pre-S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury adventure, in which Fury appears in only two panels. Instead, we witness the formation Dugan's Deadly Dozen, featuring "Dum Dum" Dugan, "Hoss" Cosgrove, "Ace" Hamilton, "Hillbilly" Wagner, "Bullseye" Miller, "Snakeye" Simpson and all the rest. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Gil Kane + Jan Strnad revamp The Atom for the 1980s! If shrinking down to miniature size wasn't cool enough, how about shrinking down to miniature size PLUS dressing up like a damn He-Man toy?

Beware The Claws Of The Cat! Mike-DELL and Mike-EL review the first appearance of Greer Nelson, aka Tiger, aka THE CAT. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

In which we learn the history of the Earth from 1975 to 3007, featuring the original Guardians of the Galaxy! www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

The World's First Superhero? Or merely a Competent Man? Mikes DELL and EL explore Marvel's adaptation of the Man of Bronze, who's headquarters is called the Fortress of Solitude, who's secret identity is Clark Savage Jr. The man called DOC SAVAGE!

Check this out: King Arthur Meets Star Wars. Box office gold, right? Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland revive the Knights of the Round Table in the far-flung (yet strangely familiar) future of the year 3000! www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Bob Meyers joins Mike-DELL + Mike-EL for...Send in the Clowns! This week's pick is the 3rd X-men spin-off to debut in the 1980s: the left-over-X-men-but-in-England, otherwise known as Excalibur. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

lash, Flash, Kid Flash & Johnny Quick are foiled by Gorilla Grodd! Cary Bates, Irv Novick, Joe Giella, José Luis García-López, Wally Wood, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Murphy Anderson present 80 pages of Flash fun in The Flash Spectacular, aka: DC Special Series #11. www. ComicBookSyndicate.com

Kevin Jank once again joins Mike-DELL & Mike-EL for Dazzler V Rogue: Dawn of X! Straight from the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants (!), the pre-X-men southern belle Rogue exacts her revenge on Allison Blaire, aka: Dazzler! Frank Springer does writing and pencils, while Vince Colletta handles the inks.

Because Kevin Jank demanded it! Wolfpack by Larry Hama, Ron Wilson & Kyle Baker was where we learned that that street toughs think all disabled people are deaf, that nature cannot do math, and that a bong is a pipe. Did we miss anything?