Marvel's Cosmic Comics: Star Wars, John Carter, ROM, Micronauts, and Beyond!

The Human Fly takes on greedy businessmen and really, really careless, incompetent reporters. At Niagara Falls. And none of it is as good as it sounds.

The empire strikes! But it's not striking BACK...not yet, anyway. (And do they really strike in THIS issue? We'll talk about it.)

To celebrate 100 episodes of both the Marvel’s Cosmic Comics sub-feed AND the main feed, we cover John Carter’s 2nd annual AND John Carter’s big screen appearance! First, The Headmen of Mars, a fantastic story of horror and weirdness! Then, my review of John Carter, the movie, from a 2012 episode of …

With news of Carrie Fisher’s passing, plans changed and Ben take a look back at the comic book mini-series that pays a fitting tribute to the character that Carrie Fisher brought to life: Princess Leia. Rebel leader, princess, and icon, Princess Leia turned the concept of “save the princess” on …

Taking a look at what else is happening at Marvel with the cover date November, 1978. Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur take on other dino riders, while Machine Man deals with evil scientists, and some advertisements cause some excitement for what's coming to Marvel's Cosmic Comics in the near future!

Tars Tarkas battles alone against a contender for his leadership!

The Human Fly grapples with two Vietnam vets who have turned to terrorism to get the word out about the shoddy care wounded veterans are receiving.

In part two of what could be called the "Godzilla Goes West" story arc, Godzilla proves himself to be one tough dude.

This month's Star Wars is a fill in issue, meant to fill in the gap for scheduling purposes as the regular team worked on the series, but also meant to fill in the gap on some of Luke Skywalker's past!

Ben takes a peek at the ads and editorial material in the Marvel comics cover dated October, 1978 and also takes a look at two comics related to Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey: Machine Man #7 and Devil Dinosaur #7.

The "Claremont era" of John Carter: Warlord of Mars continues with part 2 The Assassins of Mars! How does it stack up to Wolfman's first half?

NEW EPISODE! It's Spider-Man in one of his most outlandish team-ups: the cast of Saturday Night Live? It all makes sense, in a comic book sort of way...although the question remains: how in the world did this happen? Guest starring: Stan Lee!

NEW EPISODE! Go west, young kaiju! It's cowboys vs. kaiju and one side is WAY outmatched. (Spoiler: it's not the kaiju!)

NEW EPISODE! Balloons! Tight ropes! Mute orphans! This one has it all... All except suspense, logical plots, and character decisions that make sense.

NEW EPISODE! A delightful "birthday" surprise for Ben, as new characters are introduced and old characters are revisited and MOVIE characters are almost forgotten! Almost. Bounty hunters and droid hatred abound in "The Hunter"!

Ben wraps up his coverage of September 1978's cover dated comics by taking a look at Machine Man and Devil Dinosaur #6 and the ads and copy found in this month's comics.

The beginning of a new era: Chris Claremont is the new writer; Ernie Colon is the new artist; and a master assassin is the new antagonist! But who is the assassin?

It's Godzilla vs. three giant sized kaiju from another world...and the fate of the earth hangs in the balance. Fortunately, the Big G isn't alone...Dum dum Dugan and Gabe Jones are there! But are they enough?

There's a stunt! Something goes wrong! Human Fly has to rescue people! So bad it's good? So bad it's bad? Or so mediocre it's mediocre? There's a LOT of comics in the world...and this is one of them.

It's a duel of the scoundrels as Han Solo faces off with the pirate Crimson Jack to wrap up the remaining plot threads from issue #7!

Taking a look at Machine Man #5 and Devil Dinosaur #5, Ben also looks at the ads and editorial copy of Marvel's August 1978 cover dated books!

Using Star Wars as a guideline,  we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. It’s the final issue of Man from Atlantis! Ben wraps up his coverage of the comic and the TV show with an issue of the comic that goes from …

This issue: it's John Carter: Warlord of Earth? It's the power of SCIENCE vs the power of love as John Carter finds himself home...sort of.

As two alien races war using giant monsters, earth and Godzilla are pulled into the conflict!

Flashback...to that time when Human Fly's PR guy was a down on his luck out of work reporter and got his current job by jumping out of a plane to save Human Fly's life!