Rolled Spine Podcasts

Face Front, True Believers! It's been four months since #MarvelSHP Annual 2014 , so we felt like it was time to push out another clip show as a seasonal event! However, due to another recording error where Frank's stupid laptop with the dicey USB port defaulted to a crumby internal microphone, the vast majority of this extra-length, minimally-edited show will be new material! To listeners, anyway!...

Face Front, True Believers! This episode, Iron Man faces the fantastic threat of: "Hawkeye, the Marksman!" From Clint Barton's origin story in Tales of Suspense #57 (September 1964) through his reappearances in #60 & #64, you are there! And by there we mean you'll hear Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit and Diabolu Frank talk about these comics, 1966 cartoon adaptation, and their general views of t...

Face Front, True Believers! Our already edited and nigh-publishable Tuesday episode of #MarvelSHP was lost in the Negative Zone, so Illegal Machine & Diabolu Frank had to whip up an entirely new episode that night so that you wouldn't have to do without this week! Can you center an hour-plus long podcast on a t-shirt? You be the judge as a heavily reworked version of Mike Zeck (and now mucho c...

Burbank, CA and New York, NY, April 1, 2015 —Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, FW Books (NYSE:FWB) has agreed to acquire Rolled Spine Podcasts, Inc. (NYSE:#MSHP) in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today. Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of FW Books on August 28, 2014, Rolled Spine sharehol...

Face Front, True Believer! This week we introduce a new feature on the podcast, Wild Agents of Marvel, named after the 1990s fan club from the House of Ideas! Here we spotlight the stories of our friends and listeners! Regular commentator and occasional guest Count Drunkula tells how he got into comics, debates the vice/virtues of Hank Pym, and generally gabs with our own Diabolu Frank! Then, Ille...

Face Front, True Believers! After a brief hiatus to promote our other podcasts, #MarvelSHP is back with a super obscure anti-heroine from Marvel Magazine Group's March 1981 cover-dated black and white periodical Bizarre Adventures #25! Just a few months before introducing their popular creation Rogue, Chris Claremont & Michael Golden (joined by superstar inker Terry Austin) offered the Depress...

Conversation about the Feld Entertainment Marvel Comics stage show currently touring North America, then a lot of movie talk, some comics chat, a whole lot of listener mailbag patter, and basically all told an hour-and-a-half of bull.

Face Front, True Believers! This week we tackle one of Marvel's most fabulously famous femme fatales, Soviet super spy Madame Natasha Romanoff! We specifically cover Tales of Suspense #52-53 (April-May 1964), introducing the gorgeous new menace of... The Black Widow! Also, we offer general thoughts on the character from Mac, Frank, Fixit, and even Pekita for good measure! Original Crimson Dynamo A...

The Irredeemable Shag insists on talking at Frank about Alpha Flight and other, presumably better, Marvel comics. Meanwhile, Mac sorts through the Mail Bag and Joe Fixit wisely walks away from this debacle.

As part of a Super Blog Team-Up crossover, the boys look at The Shadowline Saga, four interconnected titles published in 1988 under the Epic Comics imprint that are being folded into the Marvel Universe proper as part of Secret Wars 2015.

We talk the debut appearances of the first African super-hero, T'Challa, King of the Wakandas!

The final extended look at the Marvel Studios and Warner Brothers/DC Entertainment announced movie slates of 2014 extending into the twenty-twenties.

Discussing Batman v Superman v Captain America v Iron Man summer 2016 movies, as well as Marvel offerings from Fox and Sony. More here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/12/marveldc-movie-slate-2020-v-v-v.html

Best of clip show with bonus previously deleted material. Full episode info here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/12/marvelshp-annual-2014.html  

Talking the upcoming Inhumans vs. Shazam pictures, plus too much arguing over Aquaman. More here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/12/marveldc-movie-slate-2020-part-four.html

Discussing the titular mini-series and the earliest appearances of the Kree and Ronan the Accuser in Fantastic Four #64-65 (1967). Full details here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/12/annihilation-ronan-2006.html

Our continuing discussion of competing comic book cinematic universes. For more, visit http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/12/marveldc-movie-slate-2020-doctor.html

Discussion of the first ever Marvel Comics major motion picture. And for once, we're positive about it. Full details here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/11/howard-duck-1986.html

Continuing our discussion of upcoming Marvel/WB-DC movies. Full details here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/11/marveldc-movie-slate-2020-ant-man-v.html  

First part of our look at upcoming Marvel and DC movies through the year 2020, with film vs. film predictions. Full details here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-slate-2020-marvel-studios-v-warner.html  

Recent comic-related news coverage. Full episode info here: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/10/nycc-2014-fyi.html

Discussion of the first two appearances of the revised Marvel Comics heroine. Full episode info available at this address: http://marvelshp.blogspot.com/2014/10/tigra-were-woman-1974.html  

This week we discuss the 2006 Nova mini-series plus early issues of Nova (1976) and Quasar (1989.) Also, Dr. Strange casting picks.

Fantasy as you like it! The strangest man of all time!! Is he Man or Monster or... is he both? It's "The Coming of the Hulk" as we look at The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962,) its faithful adaptation on the 1966 The Marvel Super Heroes animated series, plus the 1982 and 1996 takes from two separate series of The Incredible Hulk cartoons. Added value bonus at no additional cost to our treasured liste...

The Marvel Super Heroes Podcast Episode 011 Face Front, True Believers! This week we return to the Annihilation event, with a (thankfully) more self-contained mini-series starring the classic Fantastic Four foe Super-Skrull!