Bronze-Age Monsters
MEET BEN STRYKER: a soldier pummeled by Rommel's forces in the Kasserine Pass...a soldier and pacifist who's managed to survive WWII without taking a human life...so far. MEET THE 'DEATH SQUAD': a crew of misfit soldiers destined for court martials and military prison. The two parties collide for our comics enjoyment in SAVAGE COMBAT TALES f/ SGT. STRYKER'S DEATH SQUAD! Archie Goodwin pens 2 WWII tales, the 1st with art by Al McWilliams and the 2nd by Jack Sparling. WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/hjzY0DcoKBQ You can read all 3 issues here:...
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For our final season, we're covering the short life of Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics by reviewing all the debut issues from their line. WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE! https://youtube.com/live/FxDNA8jYfpo Goodman also published a POLICE ACTION at the pre-Marvel Atlas. This one seems to appeal to fans of the swarms of detectives and cops that cluttered up American TV screens in the mid-'70s, like Banacek, Kojak, and Baretta. POLICE ACTION offered up TWO lead characters in their own stories: Sam Lomax, NYPD, and Luke Malone: Manhunter. Stories by Russ Jones and Mike Ploog with art by Mike...
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Jeff Rovin wanted Atlas to publish The Omega Man comic book, but when he couldn't secure the rights to it, they came up with PLANET OF VAMPIRES, a mash-up of I AM LEGEND and PLANET OF THE APES written by Larry Hama with an art team of Pat Broderick & Frank McLaughlin. We're joined by Russ & Josh from . WATCH THE EPISODE WITH GORGEOUS ART HERE: https://youtu.be/xJvX8c2gg2E You can read all 3 issues here: Josh's Substack: SUPPORT THE SHOW: https://www.patreon.com/BronzeAgeMonsters JOIN US ON OUR DISCORD SERVER: https://discord.gg/wdXKUzpEh7
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For our final season, we're covering the short life of Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics by reviewing all the debut issues from their line. What do you get when you make a stew out of Orwell's 1984 heavily seasoned with Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and generous pinches of A Clockwork Orange and a dash of The Time Machine? Why, Michael Fleisher's crazy dystopian body horror sci-fi book MORLOCK 2001, of course! You can read all 3 issues here: https://archive.org/details/morlock-2001-complete/Morlock%202001%2001 Watch it on YouTube with BEAUTIFUL ART! MAIL: STORE: ...
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For our final season, we're covering the short life of Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics by reviewing all the debut issues from their line. This episode, we cover Seaboard's swipe at Warren Publishing and Marvel's Curtis magazines...the horror anthology DEVILINA! Watch it on YouTube with BEAUTIFUL B&W ART! MAIL: STORE: SUPPORT THE SHOW: DISCORD:
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We make the Shadow Show every other week for our Patreon supporters, but we're giving this one out as a sample. If you enjoy, consider backing the show on Patreon for future episodes and access to the archives of previous eps. We discuss Marv Wolfman and Steve Gan's wonderfully bizarre SKULL THE SLAYER wherein a Vietnam War POW returns home and everything gets worse...then he and plane full of people go through the Bermuda Triangle! Matt got it in his head that the main character's name was Mike Scully and "corrected" Jacob at the top of the show, so they say the wrong name the whole episode....
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For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience. YOUTUBE VERSION: This episode, we cover a creative dream team assembled for the 1 straight superhero book of the line: Archie Goodwin, Steve Ditko, and Wallace "Wally" Wood. READ ALL 4 ISSUES OF THE DESTRUCTOR ON ARCHIVE.ORG: https://archive.org/details/destructor-complete/Destructor%20001/ MAIL: STORE: SUPPORT THE SHOW: DISCORD:
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For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience. YOUTUBE VERSION: This episode, we're joined by friend of the show M.J. to cover Martin Goodman's one demand: he wanted a Hulk knock-off. He got a murderous thawed Missing Link instead, written by Michael Fleisher with art by Mike Sekowsky & Pablo Marcos. READ ALL 3 ISSUES OF THE BRUTE ON ARCHIVE.ORG: https://archive.org/details/brute-complete/Brute%20001/ MAIL: STORE: SUPPORT THE SHOW: DISCORD:
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For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience. YOUTUBE VERSION: This episode, we cover Jeff Rovin & Sal Amendola's messianic sci-fi hero PHOENIX! When catastrophe strikes a space mission, lone surviving astronaut Ed Tyler is recovered in the North Pole by a race of aliens who have remained hidden from Earth since they jump-started human evolution millions of years ago. Now they want to destroy their experiment and start over, but Ed Tyler is banking on his brains, moxie, and some of their stolen tech to...
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For our final season, we're producing the episodes as videos. Check out our YouTube channel for the full experience. YOUTUBE VERSION: We're in our final season and we're reviewing all of Atlas/Seaboard's #1 issues. Next up, Michael Fleisher and Mike Sekowsky's IRONJAW! In the distant future the Earth is a ravaged wasteland with only one law--survival of the fittest. And in a land of kill-or-be-killed, none is more efficient at it and revels in it more than the man known as Ironjaw. MAIL: STORE: SUPPORT THE SHOW: DISCORD:
info_outlineFor our final season, we're covering the short life of Martin Goodman's Atlas/Seaboard comics by reviewing all the debut issues from their line.
WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE! https://youtube.com/live/FxDNA8jYfpo
Goodman also published a POLICE ACTION at the pre-Marvel Atlas. This one seems to appeal to fans of the swarms of detectives and cops that cluttered up American TV screens in the mid-'70s, like Banacek, Kojak, and Baretta. POLICE ACTION offered up TWO lead characters in their own stories: Sam Lomax, NYPD, and Luke Malone: Manhunter. Stories by Russ Jones and Mike Ploog with art by Mike Sekowsky, Al McWilliams, and Mike Ploog.
You can read all 3 issues here: https://archive.org/details/police-action-complete/Police%20Action%20001/
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