Worst Collection Ever

Marvel Team-Up #112 (1981) Spider-Man’s astral self links up with OG Conan-type King Kull to fight barbarians for a poison cure. Along the way, Spider-Man sees the Gettysburg Address take place and hangs out with pre-historic Dr. Steve Brule. Meanwhile, back on present-day Earth, Doctor Strange’s lazy self drinks ayahuasca and waits for Spider-Man to not muck up the space-time continuum.  Con...

Wonder Woman #218 (1975) Red Tornado abuses his office privileges as a data temp to record a story about Wonder Woman thwarting an evil astrologist from gimmicking Diana’s invisible plane to constantly crash in the Hudson River. Later, Wonder Woman falls off a boat to stop Felix Faust and his banker hair from permanently miniaturizing the Statue of Liberty. Green Arrow watches Wonder Woman change...

Dr. StrangeFate #1 (1996) In the Amalgam Universe, Doctor Fate merged with Doctor Strange and became a massive sausage that ends up being Charles Xavier. No surprise there. Also, Zatanna Wanda is insatiable, Green Lantern Nova is sassy and Hulk Grundy is super emo in his trench coat. Also, the Sanctorum’s house servant glues construction paper to his face. Continue the conversation with Shawn and...

Conan The Barbarian #138 (1982) Not sure how its been this long that we’ve never done a CONAN book but here it is… In this issue, Conan fights a giant crab and octopus in a swamp and then helps a girl find her murderous wizard father. After slicing up some demon flesh, the girl’s father ends up being the snake dude from that movie DREAMSCAPE. That movie freaked me out as a kid… Continue the conver...

Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #16 (1956) It’s a trio of Jimmy Olsen stories that make no damn sense: Jimmy and Superman keep plutonium in the Daily Planet fridge only for the Swami (Chris Berman) to nearly swindle them out of it by making Jimmy hallucinate. Superman carries Jimmy into the nuclear winds, turning him invincible. Lois hits Jimmy with her shoe. Jimmy takes a truth serum and nearly has C...

We decided to try something a touch different this week and go all in on our SPOILER FILLED thoughts on Avengers: Endgame . We break down the plot, the iconic battles and even some of the minutia from this epic movie. Not much else to say here without giving stuff away so listen and enjoy! Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email t...

Primal Force #0 (1994) Hemp-based super-villains are threatening the world and all we have to protect us after Zero Hour is a rag-tag group of jobbers: a dented Red Tornado Ragman’s mud friend some Dragon Ball Z weirdo with a purple hand an Irish man with a glowing purse and a woman with a shopping list This is Primal Force. We’re all screwed. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitte...

Cloak and Dagger [vol 2] #8 (1986) Cloak and Dagger end up in France with a Dollar Store Andrew McCarthy, on the trail of some smack dealers. Dagger goes on a literal vacation like its some European episode of BOY MEETS WORLD while Cloak has to do all the work. Cloak finds a culprit and then swallows a car inside his body. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Faceb...

JSA #48 (2003) Captain Marvel and Stargirl are stuck in a shadow nightmare world where Billy Batson has to stay a boy and be useless. Thorn shows up looking like Poison Ivy and mistakes them for her kids in a pretty depressing turn. Fear not though because this book also has SUPERHEROES EATING~! Hector Hall’s having damn picnic inside the Helm of Fate and all our friends are there — the Strausses,...

Incredible Hulk #267 (1982) Rick Jones gets Bruce all riled up over a rainbow in the dark (shout-out to DIO), turning him into Hulk and sending him on a rampage in a desert town. Golden Bruce Springsteen shows up to grant a bunch of wishes to the townsfolk, including a cop becoming a different cop with a different hat. Hulk manages to ruin everything and Springsteen’s albino Skrull boss shows up t...

Time got away from us while we were traveling so no comic book this week. HOWEVER, we did want to talk about some of the stuff we saw in LA while on the Warner Bros tour, including some Aquaman gimmicks. We also react to the “Disney buys Fox” news and what that could mean in terms of new film and TV properties of the comic book variety as well as a few new purchases we’ve had lately. Continue the...

Teen Titans Spotlight #19 (1988) Starfire and Nightwing move in together and immediately Kory fills their giant flat with framed pictures of Dick and really tiny pictures of Donna Troy. She gets bored and flies around the city, ruining a helicopter lesson and crossing paths with a ghost-self Harbinger. Thankfully for Harbinger, Starfire arrives just in time to help her out in battling cyborg’d you...

Captain Marvel [vol 3] #1 (1995) When you go to the movies this weekend to see CAPTAIN MARVEL, just remember that instead of Carol, it could have been his snappy 90s space-boy. Genis-Vell is one of them aged clones — technically the “son” of the original Captain Mar-Vell — who grew up on nu-metal and probably drank Fruitopia or Orbitz on the regular. He turned out to be a grimy rager and in his fi...

Batman/Superman #13 (2014) Back to the superhero comics grind as we cover some DC farts from the 21st century! (WAVE OF THE FUTURE) Batman and Superman are both amnesiacs all of sudden, shuttled violently into a Gotham that looks like blighted as all hell. Clark is naked (but not afraid) helping Catwoman beat up some garbage androids while Bruce is discovering his wealth and gadgets all over again...

I Love You #49 (1963) We jump back to the Charlton Comics romance “MurderVerse” to bring you three more tales of love lost, blinded or simply postponed: a freshly minted widower abandons his newborn son to go mule drugs in Venezuela a lovesick woman insults a blind man on a beach a commitment hungry redhead settles for the Charlton Comics Murderer Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Tw...

Teen-Age Confidential Confessions #16 (1963) Our hearts are pumping romance this month on WCE and we are starting out strong with this Charlton Comics gem of a love anthology. We’ve got: a traumatized woman, haunted by the abandonment of her drug mule father, contemplating marriage due to a rained-out Yankees game a handsome stranger stalking a depressed lady in an elevator a thrifty gal refusing...

Power Lords #1 (1983) Does anyone remember the Power Lords action figures as a kid? Probably not many of you. It was kind of high-concept sci-fi stuff that your grandfather probably liked if he watched Doctor Who. I mean, it feels like DUNE with a prince of mystical origin and all that. Sadly, Patrick Stewart wearing a pug into battle is nowhere to be found. Regardless, DC did a comic to promote t...

X-O Manowar #16 (1993) My perception has always been that Valiant Comics are perpetually boring, with Archer & Armstrong and all that (I’ve never read it). Turns out though, Valiant - specifically X-O Manowar - is visceral AF and we like it. The story is pretty wild too. X-O Manowar gets back from strike-busting to help a young socialite escape her mother - played by Stockard Channing - who is...

Batman #163 (1964) It is two Silver Age Batman stories in one book….aren’t we blessed?  In the first story, Alfred writes some fanfic (for real) that imagines Dick-Batman and Robin Jr. Jr. teaming up with Batwoman II on Earth-40 to face a mad scientist that failed engineering hard and made a fist-ship that should never fly. Thankfully, 100 lb Batwoman II is a kayfabe linebacker and can tackle...

Speedball #2 (1988) This ain’t a podcast about doing lots of coke and heroin but we do address that. It’s actually about the New Warriors goof that would indirectly change comics forever.  SPEEDBALL is also another sub-par Steve Ditko book that we’re covering, featuring anachronistic attire, teenagers murdering Lex Luthor with glue and PTSD-riddled veterans on a rampage versus bloodthirsty be...

The Brave and The Bold #51 (1964) In honor of the AQUAMAN movie (which we review), we also dig into the time that Aquaman and Hawkman teamed up to face a Turtle-Eagle-Frog that used to be a disgraced Atlantean politician that became an atrocity. There’s a bunch of malarkey with birds and fish being controlled by the wrong people and what not. Why do they have to be controlled at all? LEAVE THE BIR...

Tales to Astonish #5 [Vol 2] (1980) In this Sub-Mariner reprint, we get introduced to Todd Arliss aka Tiger Shark who was on the verge of making millions of dollars for swimming until he decided to become a jagged tooth shark man. Is that even possible? Making millions for swimming? Anyway, pre-death, pre-starfish body Doctor Dorcas wreaks all the havoc while Sub-Mariner wears a chastity vest or s...

Congorilla #4 (1993) In the 90s, no one was safe from getting extreme, not even immortal apes mentally inhabited by jungle explorers. In this Congorilla reboot, Congo Bill’s jungle child companion (ugh) grows up and goes wild…er as he takes over the Congorilla body from Bill and dresses it up as a low rent mall Dracula. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook...

Avengers Spotlight #21 (1989) Hawkeye somehow ends up in the desert with Orb, the less-attractive Harvey Dent. They're being stalked by Plantman for ruining his bio-dome which surely had Pauly Shore in it made completely of celery. Hawkeye has to fill his quiver full of water which should effectively ruin his arrows but kayfabe I guess. Later, Starfox goes to a flea market planet to buy a woman na...

This episode is a bit different from the rest because it features no comic book in peril. We’ve been hit with reality the past few weeks so this week, its just Jen and Shawn shooting the breeze about some comic book related madness including a tribute to Stan Lee. Continue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Threads / Bluesky or email the show at worstcollection...