Marvel Reread Club

Marvel Reread Club finishes off May 1964 with Tales of Suspense #53 with Iron Man and The Watcher, Tales to Astonish #55 with Giant Man and the Wasp, X-Men #5 and Avengers #5. Overrated playboys! Multidimensional Eclipses! Cellophane Air Chariots! Ice Airlocks! Gluttonousity!

Marvel Reread Club unmasks the first half of May 1964 with Amazing Spider-Man #12, Fantastic Four #26, Journey Into Mystery #104 with Thor, and Strange Tales #120 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Leedit! Emergency Gamma-Ray Treated Capsules! Manspreading! Swinging Teen Cruise Pirates! Shockingly Elaborate Publicity Stunts! Check it out!

Marvel Reread Club applies its heightened senses to April 1964, with Amazing Spider-Man #11, Daredevil #1, Fantastic Four #25, Journey into Mystery #103 with Thor, Strange Tales #119 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #52 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #54 with Giant-Man and the Wasp! Ne’erdowell brothers! Eisner-esque hoods! Three heroes on speedboats! Matt’s long-seede...

Marvel Reread Club dethaws the second half of March 1964 with Tales of Suspense #51 starring Iron Man, Tales to Astonish #53 starring Giant-Man and the Wasp, X-Men #4 and Avengers #4! A hasty decision to get out of vaudeville! Suspiciously-good fan club costumes! ADA compliance! Statues not sculpted in typical poses!

Steve and Matt grapple with the first half of March, 1964, featuring Amazing Spider-Man #10, Fantastic Four #24, Journey Into Mystery #102 with Thor and Tales of Asgard, and Strange Tales #118 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Fancy Dan! Photo collages! Unfabulous crowns! Continued lack of spandex! Frau Lieber!

Marvel Reread Club visits Feb-RU-ary 1964, with Spider-Man #9, Fantastic Four #23, Journey Into Mystery #101 with Thor, Strange Tales #117 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense #50 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #52 with Ant-Man and the Wasp. Lots of venetian blinds! Solar Waves! The Well of Centuries! Stamp collecting while slimy! De-freckled Pepper! Two different books in...

Marvel Reread Club wraps up January 1964 with Tales of Suspense #49 with Iron Man (and Tales of the Watcher), Tales to Astonish #51 with Giant-Man and the Wasp (and The Wonderful Wasp Tells a Tale), X-Men #3, and Avengers #3! Nuclear radiation that turns you evil! Sneepers! Inquisitive little imps! Veterans the Wasp is not attracted to! The one Professor X loves! Giant-Man vs. a bag of flour!

MRC revisits Marvelmania in the first half of January 1964, with Spider-Man #8, Fantastic Four #22, Journey Into Mystery #100 with Thor and Tales of Asgard, and Strange Tales #116 with the Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Tribute to teen-agers! The kookiest hat! Mr. Hyde, the king of the seven seas! Crude pepper receptacles! No Rock Hudson! Psychedelic Strange! Check it out!

Marvel Reread Club goes spinning into December 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man 7, Fantastic Four 21, Journey Into Mystery with Thor 99, Strange Tales with the Human Torch and Dr Strange 114, Tales of Suspense with Iron Man 48, and Tales to Astonish with Ant-Man and the Wasp 50. Gun guns! Perfectly legal incitement to riot! Cliffhangers! Two people pretending they can’t fly! Psychologically intimidat...

Marvel Reread Club finishes our look at November 1963 with Tales of Suspense #47 with Iron Man, Tales to Astonish 49 with Giant-Man and the Wasp, X-Men #2 and Avengers #2! Miss Glitter! Pill-popping! Tommy guns at the White House! Three-toed Hulk!

Marvel Reread Club revisits the tragic month of November 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man 6, Fantastic Four 20, Journey Into Mystery 98 with Thor and Tales of Asgard, Strange Tales 114 with Human Torch and Dr Strange. Discarded lizard limbs! Proof that some form of life MUST exist in outer space! Cobra gas! Kirby thrones! Chamber of Commerce sashes! Evil scented candles! More to come in Part 2!

MRC flashes back to October 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man #5, Fantastic Four #19, Journey Into Mystery #97 featuring Thor and Tales of Asgard, Strange Tales #113 with the Human Torch, Tales of Suspense #46 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #48 with Ant-Man and the Wasp. Finger guns! Ill-advised speculation about why people are speaking English! Gigantic magic cows! Evil magic shears! Waddling K...

Two big meteorites hit Marvel Comics in the second half of September 1963! First we cover Tales to Astonish 47 with Ant-Man and the Wasp, then we tackle X-Men 1 and The Avengers 1! Hypno-jazz! Magneto’s dainty signature! Horse juggling!

Marvel Reread tackles the first half of September, 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man #4, Fantastic Four 18, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor 96, Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch 112, and Tales of Suspense featuring Iron Man 45. Poor photojournalism ethics! The fifth quadrant of the Andromeda Galaxy! Multiple missile test mishaps! Aqua-attractor guns! Cauliflower ears! And just wait until we...

Marvel Reread Club wraps up the rest of August 1963 (or thereabouts). We look at Tales of Suspense 44 with Iron Man, Tales to Astonish 46 with Ant-Man and the Wasp, and the massive Fantastic Four Annual 1 (which may or may not have come out this month.) Casters on sand! Flipped opinions of Don Heck! Knights on squids!

Marvel Reread Club tackles half the comics from August 1963, which means Fantastic Four 17, Journey Into Mystery 95 with Thor, and Strange Tales 111 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Kennedy’s Hair! Duplicated alley cats! Asbestos Man! Black magic experiments! Fun for all!

Marvel Reread Club marches into July 1963! That means Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 16, Journey into Mystery 94 with Thor, Strange Tales 110 with the Human Torch and the debut of Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 43 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish 45 with Ant-Man and the Wasp! Roy Orbison glasses! Acid fish! The Chromosomatic gland! The frightful two! A masterpiece Stan disowned! A second Atlanti...

It’s a new Marvel Reread Club where we read just one issue, June 1963’s Tales to Astonish #44, joined by special guest Jeremy Whitley, the only writer to have written a Marvel comic starring any version of the Wasp in her own book! Pillbox hats! Laughter and gaiety! Sluggards confused with dullards!

t’s June 1963 at Marvel Reread Club! In this episode we tackle Fantastic Four 15, Journey Into Mystery 93 featuring Thor, Strange Tales 109 and Annual 2, both featuring the Human Torch, and Tales of Suspense 42 featuring Iron Man. That leaves one issue which will get its own very special guest episode next time. Predictable organ grinder monkeys! Hypnotic radiation! Imps of laziness! Super-glue fi...

This week, in a break from the show’s usual format, we sit down with Douglas Wolk, the author of “All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told” and discuss his monumental achievement of reading every Marvel comic. We have an epic, wide-ranging discussion about what it all means, whether the older comics are primarily art or artifact, and whether you can make something m...

Welcome back to Marvel Reread Club! Today we tackle a whopping seven issues: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Fantastic Four 14, Thor in Journey into Mystery 92, Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos 1, the Human Torch in Strange Tales 108, Iron Man in Tales of Suspense 41, and Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish 43. Alien radio repairmen! Hypno-fish! Making Viking movies for charity! Surprisingly ineffective machine...

Welcome back to Marvel Reread Club! It’s April 1963, including Fantastic Four 13, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor 91, Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch 107, Tales of Suspense featuring Iron Man 40, and Tales to Astonish featuring Ant-Man 42. Ape astronauts! Convenient belts of strength! Pufferfish powers! Transistor-powered foldable metal! Matt is proven wrong about four different things...

Marvel Reread Club wraps up March 1963 with Thor in Journey Into Mystery no. 90, Human Torch in Strange Tales no. 106, the introduction of Iron Man in Tales of Suspense no. 39, and Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish no. 41! Soft-hearted fools! Matching berets! Filing cabinets filled with rocks! Evil window-washers! Big changes now that Kirby is off the books!

Time for another visit to the Marvel Reread Club! March 1963 is a monumomentous month, so we’ve broken it into two episodes. First we’ll handle the full-length books: Amazing Spider-Man no. 1, Fantastic Four no. 12 and Incredible Hulk no. 6. Masks over masks over masks! An actual card-carrying Communist! Reet!

It’s February 1963 in the Marvel Reread Club, with Fantastic Four #11, Journey Into Mystery #89 featuring Thor, Strange Tales #106 featuring Human Torch, and Tales to Astonish #40 featuring Ant-Man! Lincoln’s Mother! Super-Ventriloquism! Flame Saws! Fake Appendicitis! We bid a sad farewell to Jack Kirby on three more of his comics, but he’ll be back soon with other books, we promise!