Marvel by the Month

"At the Mercy of Torgo!" - Fantastic Four #93, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby w/Frank Giacoia, ©1969 Marvel Comics "The Hulk's Last Fight!" - Incredible Hulk #122, written by Roy Thomas, art by Herb Trimpe, ©1969 Marvel Comics "The Thunder God and the Thermal Man!" - Thor #170, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby w/Bill Everett, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Spin-Out on Fifth Avenue!" - Daredevil #58, written by Roy Th...

Elliott Kalan is the co-host of the world's greatest podcast, The Flop House . Buy your tickets today for their virtual live show on Saturday, September 25th at 9 pm ET / 6 pm Pacific where they'll be revisiting Super Mario Bros for a special 28th Anniversary celebration! He's also the writer of the slasher movie social commentary comic Maniac of New York , illustrated by Andrea Mutti and publishe...

"Spin-Out on Fifth Avenue!" - Daredevil #58, written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and Syd Shores, ©1969 Marvel Comics "At the Mercy of Torgo!" - Fantastic Four #93, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby w/Frank Giacoia, ©1969 Marvel Comics "The Hulk's Last Fight!" - Incredible Hulk #122, written by Roy Thomas, art by Herb Trimpe, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Who Serves Lucifer?" - Iron Man #20, written by Archie...

Tom Brevoort is the Senior Vice-President of Publishing and Executive Editor of Marvel Comics. He spends his days helping to chart the narrative direction of Marvel's greatest heroes and villains, and then he spends the occasional evening trying to smarten us up about Marvel history. And this time, he did it in the aftermath of a massive thunderstorm that knocked out his power, so he ran his route...

"In the Blaze of Battle!" - Amazing Spider-Man #77, written by Stan Lee, art by John Buscema and Jim Mooney, ©1969 Marvel Comics "... And We Battle For the Earth!" - Avengers #68, written by Roy Thomas, art by Sal Buscema and Sam Grainger, ©1969 Marvel Comics "The Falcon Fights On!" - Captain America #118, written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan and Joe Sinnott, ©1969 Marvel Comics "And a Child Sha...

Miles Stokes is the co-host (with Jay Edidin) of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men , which you are almost certainly aware of. If not, it's basically what we do, except it's X-specific, better-researched, and co-hosted by someone who wrote the best dang Cyclops story we can remember reading. Miles also co-hosted THOR: The Lightning and the Storm , a podcast love letter to Walt Simonson's legendary ru...

"The Lizard Lives!" - Amazing Spider-Man #76, written by Stan Lee, art by John Buscema and Jim Mooney, ©1969 Marvel Comics "We Stand At... Armageddon!" - Avengers #67, written by Roy Thomas, art by Barry Smith and George Klein, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Cry Coward!" - Daredevil #55, written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and Syd Shores, ©1969 Marvel Comics "And Juggernaut Makes Three!" - Doctor Stran...

Elana Levin is the host of the Graphic Policy Radio podcast , where they talk about about comics, genre movies and television through the lens of politics and social change. They’ve written about Jack Kirby for The Daily Beast and talked about him on SyFy and Jack Kirby Museum livestreams, so you can imagine how excited we were to be able to have them join us! Contribute to our Patreon at the $4/m...

"Death Without Warning!" - Amazing Spider-Man #75, written by Stan Lee, art by John Romita and Jim Mooney, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Betrayal!" - Avengers #66, written by Roy Thomas, art by Barry Smith and Syd Shores, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Far Worse Than Death!" - Captain America #116, written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan and Joe Sinnott, ©1969 Marvel Comics "That Zo Might Live... a Galaxy Must Die!"...

Paul Kupperberg was a longtime writer and editor for DC Comics in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, working on Superman, Doom Patrol, Vigilante, Arion Lord of Atlantis , and many others. And he wrote a couple of books about it — I Never Write for the Money... But I Always Turn In the Manuscript for a Check and Paul Kupperberg's Illustrated Guide to Writing Comics . Find out what else he's up to at paulkupp...

"As It Was In the Beginning..." - Daredevil #53, written by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and George Klein, ©1969 Marvel Comics "If a World Should Die Before I Wake..." - Doctor Strange #181, written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer, ©1969 Marvel Comics "A House There Was!" - Fantastic Four #88, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby w/Joe Sinnott, ©1969 Marvel Comics "World's End?...

Kirk Chritton is a comics writer, book publisher, former employee of Jim Steranko (!!) and friend of the show. His latest book, Comics Career: Tales From the Titans is available at comicscareer.com , along with a ton of great resources for how to make a career in comics. Contribute to our Patreon at the $4/month level to get access to our bonus feed, which contains an extended version of this epis...

"What Is... the Power?" - X-Men #56, written by Roy Thomas, art by Neal Adams and Tom Palmer, ©1969 Marvel Comics "The Eve of... Annihilation!" - Incredible Hulk #116, written by Stan Lee, art by Herb Trimpe and Dan Adkins, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Burn, Namor... Burn!" - Sub-Mariner #14, written by Roy Thomas, art by Marie Severin and "Joe Gaudioso" (Mike Esposito), ©1969 Marvel Comics "When a Galaxy...

Chelsea Cain is the six-time New York Times bestselling author of the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell thriller series, two of which made Stephen King’s “best ten books of the year” lists. She’s the Eisner Award-nominated writer of Man-Eaters (published by Image Comics) as well as Marvel Comics’ Mockingbird . Her latest comics series, Spy Island , was just published as a trade paperback by Dark H...

"Eternity, Eternity" - Doctor Strange #180, written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer, ©1969 Marvel Comics "And In This Corner... Goliath!" - Avengers #63, written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and George Klein, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Captives of the Controller!" - Iron Man #13, written by Archie Goodwin, art by George Tuska and Johnny Craig, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Traitors or Heroes?...

Douglas Wolk is the host of our favorite Doctor Doom-centric podcast, Voice of Latveria , which you should all be listening to even if Lord Doom hadn't already ordered you to do so under pain of death. Robb has guested on an episode , and Bryan is super jelly about it. Douglas is also the author of All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told , for which he read every s...

"The Speedster and the Spider!" - Amazing Spider-Man #71, written by Stan Lee, art by John Romita and Jim Mooney, ©1969 Marvel Comics "Lest We Forget!" - Captain America #112, written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby and George Tuska, ©1969 Marvel Comics "The Moment of -- the Man-Slayer!" - Captain Marvel #12, written by Arnold Drake, art by Dick Ayers and Syd Shores, ©1969 Marvel Comics "If In Batt...

Jordan Morris is one-half of Jordan, Jesse, Go! , one of the longest-running and funniest podcasts on the interwaves. He's also a brilliant comedy writer whose work can be most recently seen in Disney+'s Earth to Ned , which you should treat yourself to if you haven't already. Tony Cliff is the creator of the Delilah Dirk series of graphic novels and the Eisner-nominated short story, Old Oak Trees...

Clint McElroy is a radio legend in Huntington, West Virginia, a host and co-creator of The Adventure Zone podcast , and a comics writer whose credits include The Green Hornet, War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery , and 3 Ninjas Kick Back . And he's got another graphic novel coming out in July! The Adventure Zone vol. 4: The Crystal Kingdom is co-written by Clint and his kids, illustrated by Car...

"Spider-Man Wanted!" - Amazing Spider-Man #70, written by Stan Lee, art by John Romita and Jim Mooney, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Some Say the World Will End In Fire..." - Avengers #61, written by Roy Thomas, art by John Buscema and George Klein, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Rebirth!" - Captain Marvel #11, written by Arnold Drake, art by Dick Ayers and Vince Colletta, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Daredevil Drops Out" -...

"Mission: Crush the Kingpin!" - Amazing Spider-Man #69, written by Stan Lee, art by John Romita and Jim Mooney, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Die, Traitor!" - Captain Marvel #10, written by Arnold Drake, art by Don Heck and Vince Colletta, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Farewell to Foggy!" - Daredevil #48, written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan and George Klein, ©1968 Marvel Comics "The Cult and the Curse" - Doctor...

Jennifer aka Comics Will Break Your Heart is the host of the Casually Comics Sunday Chat . We're pretty sure she reads more comics than anyone we know, and she's a must-follow on Instagram .  Contribute to our Patreon at the $4/month level to get access to our bonus feed, which contains an extended version of this episode that contains more than 35 minutes of extra content, including our conversat...

"Between Hammer and Anvil!" - Captain Marvel #9, written by Arnold Drake, art by Don Heck and Vince Colletta, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Brother, Take My Hand!" - Daredevil #47, written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan and George Klein, ©1968 Marvel Comics "O Grave Where Is Thy Victory?" - Doctor Strange #176, written by Roy Thomas, art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer, ©1968 Marvel Comics "The Mark of -- the...

Katie Pryde is the proprietrix of our comic book home base, Books with Pictures in Portland, Oregon. She's also a board member of ComicsPro , the Comics Professional Retail Organization and an all-around Force For Good in the comics industry. Contribute to our Patreon at the $4/month level to get access to our bonus feed, which contains an extended version of this episode that contains more than 2...

Issues Covered in This Episode: "The Snares of the Trapster!" - Captain America #108, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby w/Syd Shores, ©1968 Marvel Comics "And Fear Shall Follow!" - Captain Marvel #8, written by Arnold Drake, art by Don Heck and Vince Colletta, ©1968 Marvel Comics "... The Final Jest!" - Daredevil #46, written by Stan Lee, art by Gene Colan and George Klein, ©1968 Marvel Comics "Unto Us.....