Marvel by the Month

Mike Allred is one of the greatest and most prolific comics creators in the history of the industry. From his creator-owned work like Madman (celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2022), Red Rocket 7, The Golden Plates,  iZombie, and Bowie, to critically acclaimed runs on Marvel titles, including FF (with Matt Fraction ), X-Statix (with Peter Milligan ), and the Eisner Award-winning Silver Surfer (w...

A huge THANK YOU to Daniel, Jack, David, Jamie, Matt('s lawyer), and everyone who sent in emails and audio for our 100th episode. We are so grateful to all y'all, and we'll keep making this stuff as long as you want to hear it.  (No thanks to Noah.) Our Season 5 recap covers all of these issues, more or less: Amazing Spider-Man #53-66 and Annuals #4 and 5, Avengers #44-57 and Annuals #1 and 2, Cap...

Dan McCoy is the co-host and co-creator of The Flop House , a podcast we kinda like — fans of bad movies, witty banter, and friends dunking on each other will agree. Dan has also won two more Emmys than most of us, as a writer for The Daily Show With Trevor Noah . And his Twitter account is 🔥🔥🔥, no matter what Elliott Kalan says. Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Avengers #57: "Behold......

We can't imagine there's someone out there who's interested in this podcast and hasn't heard of Mark Waid , but just in case: he's written just about every major Marvel and Brand Echh character over the course of a 35+ year career in comics.  He created the Elseworlds imprint for DC Comics, and his and Alex Ross' s Kingdom Come continues to be critically and commercially regarded as one of the gre...

Matt Fraction has a new puppy. The fourth and final volume of November , the crime drama graphic novel he wrote with artist Elsa Charretier , was just released a couple of weeks ago. It's great. Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Captain Marvel #5: “The Mark of the Metazoid” - written by Arnold Drake, art by Don Heck w/John Tartaglione, ©1968 Marvel Comics X-Men #47: “The Warlock Wears Three...

Tony Fleecs has spent much of the last 10 years illustrating IDW's My Little Pony and has drawn some of the biggest icons in licensed kids' comics, including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Care Bears, and Grumpy Cat .  His latest creator-owned comic — Stray Dogs , published by Image Comics — is basically Lady and the Tramp meets The Silence of the Lambs . It's really, really good,...

Joe Keatinge is tied for our most frequent guest as of this episode. He's also a very good writer whose work you should check out, especially Shutter, Ringside, Stellar, Glory, Flavor, and Evolution. His next story, "Skull Man: Man of a Thousand Skulls," appears in The BeBop #1 , coming to you soon from Bird's Eye Comics . Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Daredevil #41: “The Death of Mike M...

Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Incredible Hulk #104: “Ring Around the Rhino!” - written by Gary Friedrich, art by Marie Severin w/Frank Giacoia, ©1968 Marvel Comics Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #1: “Who is Scorpio?” - written by Jim Steranko, art by Jim Steranko w/Joe Sinnott, ©1968 Marvel Comics Amazing Spider-Man #61: “What a Tangled Web We Weave!” - written by Stan Lee, layouts by John R...

Dave Dwonch is the co-writer and co-creator behind the upcoming Jenny Zero , which will be published by Dark Horse Comics this April. You can preorder it NOW from your favorite local or online comics shop with the Diamond order code FEB210259 .  Also! Dave and Santiago Guillen's Kickstarter for SPORES: The Broken Circle , the sequel to Prom of the Dead , is live right now and chock-full of great r...

Joe Keatinge is the Eisner Award-winning editor and writer behind so much good stuff, including Popgun, Shutter, Glory, Ringside, Stellar, Marvel Knights: Hulk , and Morbius: The Living Vampire. Find him at joekeatinge.com and support the Kickstarter for The BeBop #1 , which includes his story, "Skull-Man: Man of a Thousand Skulls." Howard the Duck (©1986 Universal Pictures) was directed by Willar...

Douglas Wolk is the Eisner Award-winning author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean and the forthcoming All of the Marvels from Penguin Books. And if you are not a member of his 616 Society , a one-issue-per-day Marvel Unlimited-friendly book club, you are doing all of this all wrong! One dollar a month instantly makes your MU subscription about ten times as valuable. Sto...

Jamie Wenger is a heck of a nice guy, and we're delighted to have him back for a fourth appearance on the show. Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Marvel Super-Heroes #13: “Where Stalks the Sentry” - written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan w/Paul Reinman, ©1967 Marvel Comics Daredevil #37: “Don’t Look Now, But It’s -- Dr. Doom!” - written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan w/John Tartaglione, ©1...

Noah Campbell has been a guest on the show seven times, and none of us is quite sure how that happened. Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Daredevil #36: “The Name of the Game Is Mayhem!” - written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan w/Frank Giacoia, ©1967 Marvel Comics Thor #148: “Let There Be… Chaos” - written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby w/Vince Colletta; “... and Finally: Black Bolt” - writt...

Tom Brevoort is Marvel Comics' Senior Vice-President of Publishing and Executive Editor, not to mention Marvel's current longest-serving editor. Honestly, we're a little nervous about the fact that he knows we exist, but the flerkin's out of the bag now. His blog, The Tom Brevoort Experience , is an absolute must-read for anyone who loves the history and craft of comics.  (And, of course, please p...

Whatever you celebrate in these cold, dark times, we hope this makes them a little warmer and lighter. Thank you for listening in 2020, and we'll see you in 2021. Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Spider-Man’s Tangled Web #21 - “'Twas the Fight Before Xmas” by writer/inker Darwyn Cooke and penciler J. Bone, ©2002 Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men #143 - “Demon” by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and T...

Hal Lublin is a prolific podcaster, actor, and improv comedian who you've heard on Thrilling Adventure Hour , Welcome to Night Vale , Good Morning Night Vale , We Got This With Mark and Hal , and Tights and Fights .   Want to laugh until your face hurts for a great cause? Check out the We Got This! Public Domain Winter Spectacular featuring special guest, Paget Brewster , and musical guests The Do...

James Arthur M. is the host of Minority Korner , which takes an introspective look at the world through an intersectional lens. You might have also seen him on Marvel.com's THWIP! The Big Marvel Show and Marvel’s Premiere Red Carpet Specials . Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Thor #145: “Abandoned on Earth!” - written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby w/Vince Colletta X-Men #37: “We, the Jury…...

Elliott Kalan has made a career for himself out of checking items off the bucket list he made for himself when he was 14, which is a damn fine way to go through life, if you ask us. You may know him as the head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return , which Robb mortgaged his house to Kickstart, or his 12-year run as writer and head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . He's writ...

Season 4 of Marvel by the Month was our biggest and best season yet, thanks to our fantastic, incredible, amazing guests. In this special recap episode, you'll hear (in order of appearance): Ibrahim Moustafa talk about the seminal Fantastic Four #51, "This Man, This Monster" Corregan Brown discuss the Black Panther's first appearance in Fantastic Four #52-53 Curt Holman and Kevin Moreau from The C...

Matt Fraction is a mostly unemployed comic book writer, now that Sex Criminals and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen have both wrapped up. The final volume of his and Elsa Charretier's noir crime comic, November , comes out in early 2021. And then what's he going to do with himself? We're not worried, exactly, maybe just a little concerned. Watch this space for a GoFundMe or something. Stories Covered In...

Seanbaby invented being funny on the internet. He continues to do it with impossible regularity and hilarity at 1900HOTDOG.com .  (Due to a minor total audio catastrophe, we had to fall back on our emergency backup recording. So it's a Zoom call, but it's a Zoom call that might make you pee your pants.) Stories Covered In Detail This Episode: Thor #142 #64, written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby w...

Miles Stokes is one-half of the phenomenal Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men podcast with Jay Edidin, which you hopefully already know all about. But did you know that he also made a podcast called Thor: The Lightning and the Storm with Elisabeth Allie that's all about Walt Simonson's legendary run on the Thunder God's title? Check out both of these things and thank us later! Stories Covered In Detail...

Fred Hembeck has spent more than four decades writing and drawing gag strips featuring just about every comics character you can think of (and a bunch you can't). His curly-Q-elbowed caricatures have graced the pages of the Comics Buyer's Guide, Marvel Age, Fantastic Four Roast, and Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe and have been collected in The Marvel Universe According to Hembeck and Th...

Jordan Morris (@Midnight, Earth to Ned) is the co-host and co-creator of the world's first podcast, Jordan, Jesse, Go! on the Maximum Fun network. He's also the creator of the scripted sci-fi comedy podcast, Bubble , which he's adapting into a graphic novel and an animated movie for Sony Pictures Animation. He's great on Twitter , and as of a few weeks ago, he's now also on the 'Gram ! The Punishe...

If you don't know who John Hodgman is, then good lord, we need to fix that: Start by listening to the Judge John Hodgman podcast on the Maximum Fun network. It's a fake internet court whose primary jurisdictions are pedantry and spouses who have come up with elaborate alternative systems for things that didn't need them (they're almost always guys, and they're almost always wrong). Then check out...