Marvel Reread Club

MRC begins June 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #25, Daredevil #8, Fantastic Four #39 and Journey Into Mystery with Thor #117. Mary Jane! The Electro-Vibra Suit! Badly needed knees! Keep your oversword sheathed! Check it out!

MRC wraps up May 1965 with Tales of Suspense #65 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #67 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #11, and Avengers #16. Weasel Wills! More barely-rewritten Joe Simon! Bees in test tubes! A literal cliffhanger! Taking names off Cerebro! Endless press conferences! Check it out!

MRC flips for May 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #24, Fantastic Four #38, Journey Into Mystery #116 with Thor, and Strange Tales #132 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Taking the fishbowl off your head and putting actual fish in it! Evil trousseau creations! The Collettapocalypse! Stan vs. Larry Ivie! Orb/Eye confusion! Check it out!

MRC gets crushed under the remainder of April 1965, featuring Strange Tales with Human Torch and Dr. Strange #131, Tales of Suspense with Iron Man and Captain America #64, Tales to Astonish with Giant-Man and the Hulk #66, and Avengers #15. The Bouncing Ball of Doom! Lackeys of lackeys of lackeys! Hurtling handcars! The endlessly confusing Carter Family! Deadly plastic toy tractors! Proton guns! V...

MRC dives into March 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #23, Daredevil #7, Fantastic Four #37 and Thor #115. Bumbling costumed fools! Running amok! Demolo-guns! Limbo-ing Thor! Check it out!

MRC wraps up March 1965 with Tales of Suspense #63 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #65 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #10 and Avengers #14. The most forgettable villain ever! Beautiful hags! Oomphy looks! The world’s luckiest Soviet sub! The first and/or last refuge of the incompetent! Two sub-polar cities! Check it out!

MRC snakes its way though March 1965, with Amazing Spider-Man #22, Fantastic Four #36, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #114, and Strange Tales #130 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Feminine wiles! Unconquerable hair! Subautronic space distorters! Asbestos Beatles wigs! Cravats! Check it out!

MRC welcomes back special guest Rob Salkowitz who was nice enough to stick around and mop up the rest of February 1965 with Strange Tales 129 with Human Torch and Dr Strange, Tales of Suspense 62 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 64 with Giant-Man and the Hulk and Avengers 13. Just add a back seat, Dick! Tension, unrest, war and anarchy! Knee suction cups! Suspiciously sinister...

MRC welcomes special guest Rob Salkowitz, comics columnist for Forbes Magazine and author of “Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture”. Rob helps us struggle through the first half of February, 1965, featuring Amazing Spider-Man 21, Daredevil 6, Fantastic Four 35, and Journey Into Mystery 113 with Thor. The great Human Torch villain exodus! Actors playing Ox are always just Ox! High school boys...

MRC wrestles with the second half of January 1965, featuring Tales of Suspense 61 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 63 with Giant Man and the Hulk, X-Men 9 and Avengers 12! Continued confusion about which Asian country has which martial art! Distended foreheads! Put-upon tourists! Disappointingly ape-less Red Ghosts!

Our 50th episode! MRC hurtles into January 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #20, Fantastic Four #34, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #112 and Strange Tales with Human Torch and Dr. Strange #128. Hooray! Beatles Wigs! Colletta’s infamous eraser! Better than average pinups! Pants with no-one inside ‘em! Check it out!

MRC finally finishes December 1964 featuring Strange Tales #127 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #60 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #62 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, and Avengers #11. Fake mustaches! Mindless Ones! Uranus! Great relish! Second Story Sammy! Nuclear grenades! The royal we! Check it out!

MRC wades into the first half of December 1964 with Amazing Spider-Man #19, Daredevil #5, Fantastic Four #33, and Journey Into Mystery #111 with Thor. Crestfallen Jonah! The great how-does-DD-get-around conundrum! Nutro-nuclear dissolvo-bombs! Love at first sight of huge headgear! Check it out!

MRC gets in the ring with the second half of November, 1964 with Tales of Suspense #59 featuring Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #61 featuring Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #8 and Avengers #10. Hard-luck Jarvis! The Converti-car! Mixed-up Bettys! Menorah trunks! Super power coupons! Check it out!

MRC cowers before the might of November, 1964, featuring Amazing Spider-Man #18, Fantastic Four #32, Journey Into Mystery #110 with Thor, and Strange Tales #126 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange. JJJ jeers! Kirby Kollages! Twig TVs! Ditko Dark Dimension derangement! Check it out!

MRC cannot interfere with the second half of October 1964, featuring Strange Tales #125 with Human Torch and Doctor Strange, Tales of Suspense #58 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish #60 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, and Avengers #9. The U-Car! The jungles of the Himalayas! President Johnson’s favorite motto! Commie Gorillas! The ludicrously easy to capture Wasp! Check it out!

MRC falls under the sway of October, 1964, with Amazing Spider-Man #17, Daredevil #4, Fantastic Four #31 and Journey Into Mystery #109, starring Thor! Frog bombs! Boomerangs with tape recorders inside of them! More criminal family members! Submarines disguised as trees! Check it out!

It’s a very special episode of Marvel Reread Club, as we welcome an insider who knows the real deal. We discuss two of the greatest Marvel comics of all time, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 and Fantastic Four Annual #2, with Steve Bunche, who worked at Marvel and DC back in the day and knows everybody with one or two degrees of separation, from Ditko to Bob Kane! Check it out!

MRC takes aim at the second half of September, 1964 with Tales of Suspense #57 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish #59 with Giant-Man, the Wasp and Hulk, X-Men #7 and Avengers #8. Powerful gloved hands! Standick! Cyberno! Righto!

MRC stalks the first half of August 1964, with Spider-Man #15, Daredevil #3, Fantastic Four #29, and Journey Into Mystery #107 with Thor. Petey-Wetey! Whee! Several surrenders that get voided by a change in location! Paper-airplane-folding powers! Check it out!

MRC burrows into the second half of August, 1963, checking out Strange Tales 123 with The Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 56 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish 58 with Giant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers 7. Beetle grippers! Evil thong slivers! Little black books! Pesky escalators! Enchantress slacks!

MRC stalks the first half of August 1964, with Spider-Man #15, Daredevil #3, Fantastic Four #29, and Journey Into Mystery #107 with Thor. Petey-Wetey! Whee! Several surrenders that get voided by a change in location! Paper-airplane-folding powers! Check it out!

MRC finishes up July 1964 with Tales of Suspense #55 with Iron Man and the Watcher, Tales to Astonish #57 with Giant-Man and the Wasp, X-Men #6 and Avengers #6. Notes to Mandy! Nasty, hateful, unpleasant people! Ice cream making powers! Multiple paste-themed villains! Check it out!

We’re back! MRC spelunks the first half of July 1964, with Amazing Spider-Man #14, Fantastic Four #28, Journey Into Mystery #106 with Thor, and Strange Tales #122 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Sparkly fingers! Cult kids! Sudden limping! Roughneck friends! Gulgol! Check it out!

Marvel Reread Club does it all with smoke and mirrors in June 1964, featuring Amazing-Spider-Man #13, Daredevil #2, Fantastic Four #27, Journey Into Mystery #105 with Thor, Strange Tales #121 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #54 with Iron Man and the Watcher, and Tales to Astonish #56 with Giant-Man and the Wasp. Sketchy psychiatrists! Instant welding! Observing the memory image...