Miles Stokes is one-half of the podcasting duo behind Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, the Marvel history show that's basically what we do, except: they only cover mutant-adjacent Marvel books, they've been doing it for more than twice as long as we have, and they actually have some idea of what they're talking about. Also very much worth checking out is Miles' Thor podcast, The Lightning and the Storm, which he co-hosted with Elisabeth Allie.

SEE MILES AND MBTM AND MORE LIVE AT BOOKS WITH PICTURES! On Saturday, September 10th, the Eisner Award-winning Books with Pictures will host Block with Party, an official Rose City Comic Con afterparty. At 7 pm, four of Portland's hometown Marvel-themed podcasts — Miles from Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Voice of Latveria, Werewolf by Night Podcast, and Marvel by the Month — will team up for Fan-Castic Four, a comics podcasting event, where we will come together to walk you through a milestone Marvel comic with something in it for each of us. Plus special guests! It's gonna be fun!

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Deep Dives in this Episode: 

"The Horror That Walks On Air!" - Fantastic Four #120, by Stan Lee and John Buscema w/Joe Sinnott, ©1971 Marvel Comics

"The Beast!" - Amazing Adventures #11, written by Gerry Conway, art by Tom Sutton and Syd Shores, ©1971 Marvel Comics

Quick Summaries in this Episode:

"And Behind the Hordes of Hydra..." - Captain America #147, written by Gary Friedrich, art by Sal Buscema and John Verpoorten, ©1971 Marvel Comics

"Night Flight!" - Daredevil #85, written by Gerry Conway, art by Gene Colan and Syd Shores, ©1971 Marvel Comics

"The Inheritor!" - Incredible Hulk #149, written by Archie Goodwin, art by Herb Trimpe and John Severin, ©1971 Marvel Comics

"Doomsmasque!" - Sub-Mariner #47, written by Gerry Conway, art by Gene Colan and Mike Esposito, ©1971 Marvel Comics

"The Well At the Edge of the World!" - Thor #197, written by Gerry Conway, art by John Buscema and Vince Colletta, ©1971 Marvel Comics

"Marvel by the Month" theme v. 3.0 by Robb Milne, sung by Barb Allen. All incidental music by Robb Milne.

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Much of our historical context information comes from Wikipedia. Please join us in supporting them at wikimediafoundation.org. And many thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics, an invaluable resource for release dates and issue information.