David F. Walker is one of the most prolific writers working in comics today. His Marvel/20th Century Planet of the Apes series (drawn by David Wachter) launches in April, and his Eisner Award-winning Bitter Root (co-written with Chuck Brown and illustrated by Sanford Greene) just got a beautiful omnibus edition of its first arc, published by Image Comics. And his other Eisner-winning book, The Black Panther Party (with artist Marcus Kwame Anderson), continues to generate critical and commercial acclaim. Follow him on Instagram to keep up with all of his self-publishing projects, including 2020: Hard Time In the Anarchist Jurisdiction, The BadAzz Mofo 25th Anniversary Compendium & Toilet Reader, and Imposter Syndrome.

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Stories Covered in this Episode: 

"Crescendo!" - Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #8, written by Steve Englehart, art by George Tuska and Billy Graham, letters by John Costanza, colors by Andrea Hunt, ©1973 Marvel Comics

"Where Angels Fear to Tread!" - Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #9, written by Steve Englehart, art by George Tuska and Billy Graham, letters by Denise Vladimer, colors by Stan Goldberg, ©1973 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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