Marvel by the Month

For 70+ minutes of bonus content — including 19 more Marvel comics in the Mighty MBTM Checklist — support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth . $5 a month gets you instant access to our bonus feed of over 150 extended and exclusive episodes!   Stories Covered in this Episode:  "The Day of the Gods" - Eternals #1, written by Jack Kirby, art by Jack Kirby and John Verpoorten, letters by Gaspar Saladi...

Douglas Wolk is the Eisner Award-winning author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean and All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told . Subscribe to his daily Marvel Comics book club, The 616 Society , and check out his story in the brand-new Giant-Size '63 , a loving tribute to 1963 by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, and Rick Veitch. For 80+ minu...

For nearly 60 minutes of bonus content — including our discussion of Amazing Spider-Man #156 and the Mighty MBTM Checklist — support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth . $5 a month gets you instant access to our bonus feed of over 150 extended and exclusive episodes!   Stories Covered in this Episode:  "Introducing: Mind-Wave and His Fearsome Think Tank!" - Daredevil #133, written by Marv Wolfman,...

Gerry Conway is one of the true legends of comics, having written just about every major Marvel and DC character over the last 60 years. At 19 years old, he was the third person to write Amazing Spider-Man, after Stan Lee and Roy Thomas, and he is the co-creator of the Punisher, the Jackal, the original Ms. Marvel, Man-Thing, and Werewolf by Night for Marvel Comics and Firestorm, Power Girl, Jason...

Matt Fraction is about to become the new writer of Batman , and yes, we feel terribly betrayed. For 90+ minutes of bonus content — including our coverage of Howard the Duck #2 and the Mighty MBTM Checklist and so much more nonsense — support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth . $5 a month gets you instant access to our bonus feed of over 150 extended and exclusive episodes!   Stories Covered in th...

For 65 minutes of bonus content — including our coverage of Marvel Chillers #3 and the Mighty MBTM Checklist — support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth . Subscribers at the $5/month level get instant access to our bonus feed of content that contains over 150 extended and exclusive episodes.    Stories Covered in this Episode:  "Blood In the Waters" - Ghost Rider #16, written by Bill Mantlo, art...

Mark Evanier 's  list of professional credits runs from Garfield and Friends to Groo the Wanderer . But he got his start as Jack Kirby’s assistant, and he’s the author of the definitive Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of Comics . Space Circus , his collaboration with Sergio Aragonés , has recently come back into print from Dark Horse. For just under two hours of bonus content — including much mo...

Will and Kevin Hines are brothers, lifelong comics fans, and kind of comedians who host the Screw It, We’re Just Gonna Talk About Comics podcast, the only podcast in human history where two brothers talk about a thing that they like.  For 115 minutes of bonus content (WHAT??!) — including our coverage of Amazing Spider-Man #151, Fantastic Four #164-165, and our Mighty MBTM Checklist feature — supp...

Michael Dean has been an editor at The Comics Journal since 1999 and is the co-author (with Tom Spurgeon) of the oral history of Fantagraphics Books, Comics As Art: We Told You So. He’s currently editing Fantagraphics’ Lost Marvels series, which restores forgotten Marvel classics in beautiful hardcover editions. Volume One reprints the never-before-collected 1969 horror and suspense series, Tower...

David F. Walker is the multiple Eisner Award-winning writer of Bitter Root with Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene. He picked up another Eisner Award with artist Marcus Kwame Anderson for The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History . Their latest collaboration is the Alex Award-winning and NAACP Image Award-nominated Big Jim and the White Boy . He just launched a Patreon and will be Kickstarting...

Stephanie Williams is a comic book writer and historian whose work has been featured on NPR, Rotten Tomatoes, SyFy Wire, the AV Club, Nerdist , and Den of Geek. Her comics writing has appeared in Marvel Voices: Legacy and Wakanda for Marvel Comics, and a number of Wonder Woman and Nubia titles for DC. She’s the co-creator of the webcomics Parenthood Activate with Sarah A. Macklin and But What If T...

Mark Russell is the Eisner Award-winning writer of Not All Robots , co-created with Mike Deodato Jr., as well as the writer and co-creator of Billionaire Island with artist Steve Pugh, Second Coming with Richard Pace, and the Eisner-nominated Traveling to Mars with Roberto Meli. Marvel fans know him as the writer of Fantastic Four: Life Story and the current writer of X-Factor, and his new book, G...

Our Season 8 recap covers all of these issues, more or less: Amazing Adventures #14-17, Amazing Spider-Man #112-146, Astonishing Tales #14-30, Avengers #103-137, Captain America #153-187, Captain Marvel #22-39, The Cat #1-4, Daredevil #91-123, Defenders #2-25, Doctor Strange (vol. 2) #1-8, Fantastic Four #126-160, Incredible Hulk #155-189, Iron Man #50-76, Ka-Zar #1-10, Luke Cage, Hero for Hire/Po...

We return to the Marvel Monsterverse with Jennifer aka Comics Will Break Your Heart for a look at some of the key creepy comics of the summer of 1974, including Werewolf by Night vs. Frankenstein, and Satan vs. Ghost Rider and... Jesus?! Thank you for supporting us on Patreon! This Patreon-exclusive extended episode contains one full hour  of bonus content not found in the public version — includi...

This is our Patreon-exclusive November 1973 Omnibus, featuring local Portland comics streamer and journalist Jennifer aka Comics Will Break Your Heart, and covering all 14 of the Marvel comics that we didn't get to last week, including: "Betrayed!" - Amazing Spider-Man #130, written by Gerry Conway, art by Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, and Dave Hunt, letters by Artie Simek, colors by Petra Goldberg "...

Jennifer from Comic Books Will Break Your Heart joins us for a fifth helping of Marvel's monster comics! The Man-Thing saves a baby! Ghost Rider takes frequent naps between sick stunts! The Werewolf fights sharks and helicopters! Dracula time-travels through black mirrors! And we learn a valuable lesson about how dads are the true monsters! Senior Florida Correspondent  Jennifer  aka  Comics Will...

Elliott Kalan is one-third of the hosts of the world's greatest podcast, The Flop House . He's also an Emmy Award-winning writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the Who Was? Show , as well as the comics writer behind Spider-Man and the X-Men and Maniac of New York . This Patreon-exclusive extended version of this episode contains an additional 50 minutes of bo...

Elliott Kalan is one-third of the hosts of the world's greatest podcast, The Flop House . He's also an Emmy Award-winning writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the Who Was? Show , as well as the comics writer behind Spider-Man and the X-Men and Maniac of New York . This Patreon-exclusive extended version of this episode contains an additional 50 minutes of bo...

Want to hear more of these extended episodes? Support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth ! Subscribers at the $4/month level get instant access to our bonus feed of content that contains over 130 extended and exclusive episodes — with more being added every week!   Stories Covered in this Episode:  "Betrayed!" - Amazing Spider-Man #130, written by Gerry Conway, art by Ross Andru, Frank Giacoia, an...

Don't want to wait until next week to hear the second half of this episode? Support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth ! Subscribers at the $4/month level get instant access to our bonus feed of content that contains over 130 extended and exclusive episodes — with more being added every week!   Stories Covered in this Episode:  "When a Legend Dies!" - Captain America #169, written by Steve Engleha...

Did you like this extended episode? Want to be able to listen to 130+ more of them? Support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth at the $4/month level to get instant access to our bonus feed!   Stories Covered in this Episode:  "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" - Amazing Spider-Man #121, written by Gerry Conway, art by Gil Kane, John Romita, and Tony Mortellaro, letters by Artie Simek, colors by David Hun...

Can't wait until next week to hear the second half of this episode? Support us at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth at the $4/month level to get instant access to our bonus feed of over 130 extended and exclusive episodes — with more being added every week!   Stories Covered in this Episode:  "Paranoia Is: The Para-Man!" - Marvel Feature #7, written by Mike Friedrich, art by Craig Russell, Dan Adkins,...

Steve Lieber is the Eisner Award-winning comics artist responsible for the funniest parts of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, One-Star Squadron, Superior Foes of Spider-Man , and so much more. On the first Friday of every month, he generously shares his three decades of industry expertise with aspiring artists who want to hone their craft at Portland's Books with Pictures . This episode was made possib...

Tom Brevoort is Executive Editor and Senior Vice-President of Publishing for Marvel Comics, whose current duties include relaunching the entire X-franchise in the post-Krakoan Era. Please buy and read all of it, so that we can continue to convince him that taking two hours to talk with us is a good use of his time! He's also got a must-read newsletter for anyone who has any interest in the past, p...

The complete version of our Omnibus episodes are usually only available to Patrons who support us at the $4/month level at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth — but in preparation for next week's season finale covering GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1, we're dropping the full version of our April 1975 Omnibus, which covers all of the following issues: "The Serpent Sheds Its Skin" - Defenders #25, written by Steve Ger...