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- Episode 8 - Colonize This!
Episode 8: Colonize This!
Today we’ll be covering Thor 131-134Preface:
- We Love Thor
- Jonathan started reading Thor constantly at Thor: God of Thunder #1, though he also read Simonson’s whole run
- Everett started reading Thor with the Sif Journey Into Mystery run and then at Thor: God of Thunder #1
- The numbering on Thor is so high because Thor initially takes over Journey Into Mystery with issue 83 and then becomes its own series at issue 126
Thor 131: They Strike from Space!
- We aren’t covering the Thor and Hercules adventure, but we freaking should!
- Jane is currently on a cross country bus, why?
- Tana Nile, Jane’s roommate bursts into crackling energy and transforms into an alien!
- She contacts Rigel, her homeworld, and stakes a claim on Earth as her first colony
- They send an inspection team, then FORESHADOWING HAPPENS warning of the Black Galaxy
- Some of the colonizers appear to have resemblence to racist caricatures of Asian people and there are some “Yellow Peril” overtones. Remember though, Stan Lee says DON’T BE A BIGOT!
- Thor demands that Odin allow him to marry Jane Foster, Odin agrees, and Thor takes off to propose (Awwwww!)
- Thor arrives at Jane’s apartment and gets immediately blasted out the room by Nile
- Nile monologues about how she’s now the Empress of Earth and threatens to used the Space Lock to move Earth out of orbit if the people don’t listen to her
- When Thor is attacked with a psionic Mind Thrust, he overcomes it only to be captured by the Coagulant Ray. These Colonizers sure have some gross sounding attacks
- Thor gets fed up and gives them The Hammer
- As they travel to Rigel the Rigelians increase their density and attack Thor again, but he knocks them out cold
Thor 132: Where Gods May Fear To Tread
- Thor gets stopped by a Space Toll Booth which looks rad.
- Thor just wants the Space Lock removed, Rigelians attack, but Thor is too strong
- The thing you have to understand is, Mjolnir is a heck of a weapon
- On Earth Tana Nile tries to convince the police that she’s now Empress of Earth. They humor her by taking her to their leader… the Police Chief. It’s COMEDY GOLD!
- Thor gets attacked by robot of the week, an “Indestructable” They fight, Thor wins
- A deadly space beam destroys a Rigelien Space Cruiser, it’s an attack from the dreaded Black Galaxy
- The Grand Commissioner of Rigel is very tired you guys… he’s not here for this
- The Grand Commish makes a deal with Thor, if Thor will stop the threat of The Black Galaxy then they will leave Earth alone and never come back
- Jane’s continuing story isn’t covered because it doesn’t relate to the Cosmic stuff but it continues into 134
- The Rigelians give Thor a humanoid android named Recorder so they can learn more about The Black Galaxy. Recorder is cool. Big Recorder fans around here!
- Thor heads to The Black Galaxy and discovers…
- Ego, the Living Planet!!!
Thor 133: They Strike from Space!
- Thor and Recorder go to Ego and it looks STUNNING
- Ego claims to be the largest and most powerful intelligence in all of Infinity! He reads Thor’s mind and creates a simulacrum of Asgard, some horses, and gives himself a humanoid body to more easily interact with Thor and Recorder
- Ego announces that he’s going to leave The Black Galaxy and conquer all of space
- Ego and Thor smack talk each other
- Ego clones Thor and forms a being called an Anti-Body (good pun? Bad pun? You decide!)
- Ego doesn’t need Thor anymore since he cloned Thor and thus whisks them away.
- Then the Anti-Bodies attack!
- Back on Earth our girl Tana can’t convince anyone that she’s THE BOSS but she still looks fly as heck!
- Thor and Ego tussle
- With Ego bested, Thor heads back to Rigel. Rigel and Earth are saved
Thor 134: The People Breeders!
- The bulk of this story isn’t covered because it has to do with The High Evolutionary but it’s BONKERS and this is where Jane continues her story.
- The Rigellians praise Thor for his handling of business
- There’s a huge energy reading
- OH MAH GHAWD IT’S GALACTUS!!!
- GALACTUS IS GONNA MONCH EGO
- Tana Nile returns to Rigel to… marry the High Commissioner??? Grats???
- Thor and Recorder will have more Buddy Adventures and We Can’t Wait!
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Thor Vol. 2
- Marvel Masterworks Thor Mighty Thor Vol 5
- Thor Epic Collections Vol 3
- The Mighty Thor Omnibus vol.2
- Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
- Ask your local library
If you would like to know more about Thor:
- The Lightning and the Storm podcast covers Simonson Thor and is PERFECT
- Jason Aaron’s Thor run begins with Thor: God of Thunder #1 and is EXCELLENT
- Stay Tuned! We’ll cover lots of Thor
If you would like to know more about Ego:
- Thor (1966) 228
- Nova (2007) 20-28 Nu-Xandar
Creators of these issues:
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Vince Colletta, Artie Simek, Sam Rosen, and Irving ForbushFind us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
32 min - Episode 7 - The Bomb in Man's Heart
Episode 7: The Bomb In Man’s Heart
- Today we’ll be covering Fantastic Four (1961) 62 & 63, and X-Men (1963) 53
Preface:
- Covering the first appearances of Blastaar-The Living Bomb Burst
- Dark Ages of X-Men
Fantastic Four 62: “--And One Shall Save Him!”
- Reed is in the Negative Zone following a confrontation with Sandman
- Ben talks to Reed on the Trans-Barrier Phone and tells Reed that as long as there is life there is hope but Reed is despondent
- Reed is headed for the Earth’s explosive belt!
- Crystal of the Inhumans seeks air from the Inhuman Royals
- In the Negative Zone, Art Deco red shirts pitch some dangerous cargo into the explosive belt fearing that he will still escape, but relieved that he is heavily sedated
- The discarded person ends up on the same space rock as Mr. Fantastic
- Reed pontificates
- Crystal convinces the Royal Family to send Triton to assist
- Automatic Translators are a thing, thank goodness!
- Reed is rescued thanks to the Inhuman!
Fantastic Four 63: “Blastaar, the Living Bomb-Burst!”
- The F4 are immediately attacked
- Blastaar has followed Reed through the portal and has teamed up with Sandman
- Bedlam ensues
- Our heroes manage to get a disabling helmen onto Blastaar and knock him out and pitch him back into the Negative Zone
X-Men 53: “The Rage of Blastaar!”
- Blastaar gets all kinds of extra while floating around in the Negative Zone
- This is our intro to the X-Men. Cyclops-Scott Summers; Marvel Girl-Jean Grey; Iceman-Bobby Drake; Hank McCoy-Beast; Warren Worthington III-Angel
- Professor X is recently inhumed and Jean is trying to learn to fill his shoes with some high-tech machinery which will change her thoughts into radio-waves
- This goes badly and Blastaar escapes into our world
- The X-Men try to stop him but he uses finger-blasts to fly into the air to beat up Angel
- Cyclops becomes Flyclops using his optic blasts… how is this not a thing he does more?
- Iceman gets extra YIKES
- Jean has Iceman make ice statues that she animates using her telekinesis to attack Blastaar with
- “Wherever men live with hate in their hearts--Blastaar lives there too!”
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Fantastic Four Vol 3
- Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 7
- Fantastic Four Epic Collections Vol 4
- Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol 3
- Essential Classic X-Men Vol. 2
- Marvel Masterworks The X-Men Vol 5
- X-Men Epic Collections Vol 3
- X-men Omnibus Vol 2
- Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
- Ask your local library.
If you would like to know more about Blastaar:
- Marvel Two-in-One (1975) 75 (Not available digitally)
- Annihilation, all of them
GO READ X-MEN!
Shout-out to Crushing Krisis, with ComicBookDB gone, his work is some of the most comprehensive!
Creators of these issues:
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Stan Goldberg, Sam Rosen, Arnold Drake, Barry Windsor-Smith, Michael Dee, Herb Cooper, Mike EspositoFind us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
25 min - Episode 6 - Mr. Tam-Bor-ine Man
Episode 6: Mr. Tam-Bor-ine Man
Today we’ll be covering Captain Marvel vol 1 issues 11, 15, and 16Preface:
- Sales of Captain Marvel were shaky but the title was important
- This caused the creative team to be inconsistent
- This is a much more modern storytelling method
Captain Marvel 11: Rebirth
- Captain Marvel is going to be executed by Kree Firing Squad
- The Kree Firing Squad is vaporized by an Aakon raiding party
- Medic Una gets into the fray to defend her man
- The Aakon have changed appearance
- Mar-Vell waxes poetic, pining for justice and peace
- Medic Una is killed!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Why Must She Be Fridged?!?!
- Mar-Vell and Yon-Rogg are gonna tussle
- Una is actually alive! Mar steals a spaceship from the cape to spirit her away.
- Nope, Una is dead again… out of the refrigerator and into the freezer
- Yon-Rogg’s ship yeets Mar’s ship faster than light into the cosmos
- Mar hallucinates as he is lost in space for months
- He awakens planetside healed and refreshed
- There is a giant building and a being calling to him… the being is ZO!
- Mar agrees to work for ZO in exchange for buffs to allow him to get revenge on Yon
Captain Marvel 15: That ZO Might Live… A Galaxy Must Die!
- Captain Marvel demands that ZO prove that he’s as powerful as he claims
- ZO shows Mar a slideshow of Western History ending in Nuclear Holocaust
- It then shows Mar-Vell a vision of Mar destroying Kree-Lar
- There’s tons of awesome Black Light Poster Art
- Mar is convinced, it’s a good slide-show
- ZO tells Mar-Vell that Mar has to destroy the Kree Pagan God TAMBOR
- TAMBOR has magnetic powers, which we all know work by magic
- If Mar destroys Mag-TAMBOR-no it will destroy Kree-Lar so Mar is stumped
- Mar-vell is ultimately captured by the followers of Tam-Bor
Captain Marvel 16: Behind the Mask of ZO!
- Captain Marvel is dragged before Tam-Bor
- Tam-bor brings the destructive magnetism which Mar overcomes with Jet-Belt Action
- Mar-Vel discovers that Tam-Bor isn’t a God but is a giant Kirby-esq machine!
- Mar-Vel defeats Tam-Bor with his Olympic Leaping Skills
- Ronan the Accuser teleports in and blasts Mar-Vel
- Ronan is finally shown as a Blue Kree (signaling that he tastes like Raspberry)
- Ronan thrashes Captain Marvel with his Universal Weapon but Mar activates his helmets self-destruct and lobs it like a grenade at Tam-Bor, destroying it.
- Ronan is about to execute Mar when the Supreme Intelligence intercedes with its Super Sentry
- Mar-Vel is teleported to the Hall of Judgement by the Super Sentry
- Turns out, Mar isn’t the one on trial, Zarek the Imperial Minister is. Mar knows him by another name though, ZO!
- Zarek, Ronan, and Yon-Rogg were conspiring together because of Racism… Yep, they were tired of the Supreme Intelligences dumb liberal policies of a peaceful pluralistic society and wanted to make Kree-Lar great again!
- Zarek and Ronan attempt to escape but the Supreme Intelligence captures them
- In reward for all he’s been through, the Supreme Intelligence gives Mar the Nega-Bands and a new costume.
- Mar-Vell tries to teleport to Earth but something goes wrong and he ends up in THE NEGATIVE ZONE!
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Captain Marvel Vol 1
- Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel Vol 2
- Digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
- Ask your local library
If you would like to know more about Captain Marvel:
- Avengers (1964) 89-97 The Kree Skrull War
- Marvel Graphic Novel #1: The Death of Captain Marvel
Ronan:
- Inhumans Vol. 3
- Annihilators (2012)
- Black Vortex (2015)
Creators of these issues:
Arnold Drake, Dick Ayers, Vince Colletta, Jean Izzo, Stan Lee, Barry Windsor-Smith, Herb Trimpe, Gary Friedrich, Tom Sutton, Dan Adkins, Jean Izzo, Marie Severin, John Verpoorten, Sam Rosen, Archie Goodwin, Don Heck, and Syd ShoresFind us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
31 min - Episode 5 - Mar-Velous
Episode 5: Mar-Velous
Today we’ll be covering Captain Marvel vol 1 issues 1, 2, and 3Preface:
Discussion about how the Captain Marvel solo title got it’s startLegal history about Captain Marvel (Fawcett/DC/Marvel)Captain Marvel 1: Out of the Holocaust.. A Hero!
- Captain Marvel battles the Kree Sentry, luring it away from the Cape’s nuclear arsenal
- The Sentry’s self-repairing is too much for Mar
- Yon-Rogg is horrible to Una, boasting of Mar-Vell’s coming demise
- Hotel clerk Jeremy Logan snoops on Mar, discovering his Carry-All Cylinder
- Carol Danvers gets trapped in the Kree Cone of Shame
- Carol may get damseled by Una won’t take a damseling passively!
- Mar defeats the Sentry by puncturing its hull and hitting inside with a magnetic charge
- Yon-Rogg is salty but gets chastised by Ronan the Accuser for jeopardizing the mission
Captain Marvel 2: The Space Man and the Super Skrull!
- Old King Skrull sees the Kree taking interest in Earth, thus he is now interested in Earth
- Old King Skrull summons Kl’rt (The Super Skrull) to figure out what the Kree want
- Super Skrull has the hots for Anelle, Old King Skrulls daughter
- Mar-Vell discovers that his Carry-All Cylinder is missing and it’s got a nuclear booby-trap
- Hotel clerk Jeremy Logan heads to the base with the Carry-All and is intercepted by Super Skrull, who knocks him out
- Captain Marvel and Super Skrull fight, Mar gets knocked out
Captain Marvel 3: From the Ashes of Defeat
- Captain Marvel gets probed by Super Skrull (with the Psycho-Probe
- Mar escapes to the Kree ship after Kl’rt sees his memories
- Yon-rogg… still the worst, tries to let Mar die of neglect in space
- Mar-Vell convinces the Imperial Minister to allow him to return to Earth to diffuse the Carry-All Cylinder
- Kl-rt uses the information he’s gleaned to pose as Captain Marvels alter-ego Dr. Lawson but he isn’t fooling Carol Danvers
- Captain Marvel and Super Skrull fight again and Super Skrull is defeated… by self hypnosis…
- Mar-Vell diffuses the nuclear bomb
- Jeremy Logan is now in a coma
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Captain Marvel Vol 1
- Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel Vol 1
- Digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
- Ask your local library.
If you would like to know more about Captain Marvel:
- Untold Legend of Captain Marvel
Mar-Vell and Skrulls:
- Young Avengers 9-12
Super Skrull:
- Annihilation: Super-Skrull
Creators of these issues:
Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Vince Colletta, Artie Simek, Irving Forbush, Sam Rosen, and Stan LeeFind us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
28 min - Episode 4 - Uatu You Lookin' At
Episode 4: Uatu You Lookin At
Today we are covering Tales of Suspense #53 backup and Fantastic Four 13 as well as discussing the Original Sin story more casually.
Tales of Suspense 53 backup: The Way It Began
- Uatu breaks the 4th Wall
- The Watchers give matches to children
- They love to leave hoards of money and jewels laying around
- After debate they give nuclear power to a race clearly not ready for it
- Watchers take off to go sight-seeing and disaster befalls the children
- Recognizing their failure, they abdicate responsibility and refuse to help anyone else
- Uatu is displeased with this outcome
Fantastic Four 13: The Red Ghost
- This story is anachronistic
- Commie space race
- Thing puts Reed in a time-out cylinder
- We meet Ivan Kragoff and his apes
- Kragoff exposes himself and his apes to cosmic rays to give each of them powers
- Apes do not like this
- 616 USSR has artificial gravity
- Uatu makes the FF and Kragoff fight it out because he doesn’t want shenanigans on the moon
- FF win, Uatu is salty and says he’s leaving but doesn’t
Original Sin
- The lettering is terrible and small
- This story is wild
- Every 3 years Uatu goes blind to everything for 45ish min to upload to the Watchers
- Uatu gets killed
- Someone steals his eyes and unleashes their secrets on everyone
- Thor no-longer worthy of Mjolnir
- Nic Fury was the Watcher on the Wall but becomes The Unseen
- Bucky Barns was the Winter Soldier and becomes The Watcher on the Wall
- The Orb disappears with an eye from Uatu never to be seen again
- When read for the Thor bits, not great but important. When read on it’s own though it’s quite enjoyable
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Fantastic Four Vol 1
- Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 2
- Fantastic Four Epic Collections Vol 1
- Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol 1
- Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales of Suspense #4
- Marvel Masterworks: Marvel Rarities #1
- You can find Fantastic Four #13 digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited
- Tales of Suspense #53 is only available on Marvel Unlimited in its complete form.
- Or ask your local library.
If you would like to know more about the Uatu and The Watchers:
- Fantastic Four (1961) 400: Even the Watchers Can Die!
- Original Sin (2014) 0-8
- She-Hulk (2004) 7: Space Cases
- Captain Marvel (1968) 37-38 The Trial of the Watcher
Creators of these issues:
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Stan Goldberg, Art Simek, Paul Reinman, Larry Lieber, Jason Aaron, Mike Deodato, Frank Martin, VC’s Chris Elliopoulos, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Javier Pulido, Jim Cheung, and Paco MedinaFind us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ArtifactsofI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
52 min - Episode 3 - Kree-py
Episode 3: Kree-py
Today we are covering Fantastic Four 64 & 65 as well as Marvel Super Heroes 12 & 13
Fantastic Four 64: The Sentry Sinister
- Reed and Ben wrap up closing a door to the Negative Zone from a prior adventure
- Reed and Sue argue leading Reed to suggest a vacation, Reed is being a jerk
- A professor and his guide are searching an island for remnants of an alien civilization
- Sentry 459 imprisons them
- Johnny and Crystal canoodle
- Reed, Sue, and Thing battle the Sentry
- Johnny and Lockjaw teleport in to save Reed, Sue, and Thing
Fantastic Four 65: From Beyond This Planet Earth!
- The Kree Supreme Intelligence telepathically finds the F4 guilty of destroying the Sentry
- Kree Justice is real weird
- Ben and Johnny share a bed… why?
- Reed is cheap
- Sue is real sick of super-hero life
- Johnny and Crystal are very cute together
- Ronan teleports the F4 to him and accuses them, bedlam ensues
- F4 team attack for the win
Marvel Super-Heroes 12: The Coming of Captain Marvel!
- Kree need a breathing potion on Earth (this is no longer true)
- Yon-Rogg is a jerk
- Captain Marvel gets sent on a suicide mission by Yon-Rog
- Medic Una is sad about this because she and Mar-Vell are in love
- The radiation from Mar’s suit affects a missile test
- Captain Marvel evades the guards, escaping to a hotel. He signs the registry Marvel
- Yon-Rogg teleports a wrist monitor onto Mar-Vell’s arm
- The Supreme Intelligence tasks Mar-Vell with succeeding where the Sentry and Ronan failed
Marvel Super-Heroes 13: The Coming of Captain Marvel
- Mar customizes his Uni-Beam by converting it to a wrist blaster
- Yon-Rogg tries to kill Mar while Mar is getting more breathing potion
- He instead downs a small plane, killing Walter Lawson
- Mar-Vell takes on Walter Lawson as an alternate identity
- Posing as Lawson, Mar works at the base for a week, learning what he can
- Carol Danvers works at the base as head of security
- A rebuild but inactive Sentry 459 is at the base
- Yon-Rogg re-energizes Sentry 459 and Mar-Vell rushes to help
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Fantastic Four Vol 4
- Marvel Masterworks Fantastic Four Vol 7
- Fantastic Four Epic Collections Vol 4
- Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol 3
- Essential Captain Marvel Vol 1
- Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel Vol 1
- as well as digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited, or ask your local library.
If you would like to know more about the Kree:
Recently:RoyalsAnnihilation: ConquestHistorically:Captain Marvel volumes 1-6,Kree/Skrull War which takes place in Avengers (1963) 89-97Creators of these issues:
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Artie Simek, Gene Colan, Frank Giacoia, and Stan GoldbergFind us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
40 min - Episode 2 - Galactus and Pals
Episode 2: Galactus and Pals
Today we are covering Fantastic Four 48, 49, and 50.
Issue 48: The Coming of Galactus
- We skipped the beginning with the Inhumans and will come back to that later
- Silver Surfer actually surfing through the galaxy
- The Skrull see him and power down their ENTIRE EMPIRE
- There are two suns then the sky is on fire
- Johnny gets blamed due to his impulsiveness, gets beat up by a Marvel Crowd, and Thing rescues him
- No more Fire in the Sky, now it's Space Rocks
- Sue is tired of Reed's nonsense
- It's the Watcher causing the fire and space rocks
- The Silver Surfer lands and signals... GALACTUS!
- Thing sucker punches Silver Surfer right into Alicia Masters skylight
- Galactus gonna MONCH
Issue 49: If This Be Doomsday
- The Fantastic Four are Haggard
- Galactus and The Watcher know each other
- Uatu pleads with Galactus to spare the Earth due to intelligent life, Galactus views us as ants.
- Each of the FF take turns trying to defeat Galactus to no avail
- The FF return home to freshen up while Alicia Masters teaches Silver Surfer about the inherent value of life
- The Human Torch gets a Side Quest for a McGuffin
- Galactus gets fed up with the FF's nonsense and sicks The Punisher on them! (not Frank Castle)
- We're confident that The Punisher is a Battletoad
Issue 50: The Startling Saga of the Silver Surfer
- The Silver Surfer betrays Galactus and the fight and talk
- Human Torch returns from the McGuffin Side Quest with The Ultimate Nullifier
- As Galactus prepares to destroy Silver Surfer, Mr. Fantastic brandishes the Nullifier
- Galactus nopes out and implores humanity to live up to their potential
- Galactus banishes the Surfer to be stuck on Earth
- Ben tries to dislike the Surfer but can't do it
- Silver Surfer departs present company to explore the Earth
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
- Essential Fantastic Four Vol 3
- Marvel Masterworks Vol 5
- Epic Collections Vol 3
- Fantastic Four: Behold… Galactus Hardcover
- Silver Surfer Epic Collection Vol 1
- as well as
- digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited or
- ask your local library
If you would like to know more about Galactus:
- Ultimates (2016) #1-12
- Thor (1966) #168-9 for the first telling of the Origin of Galactus
If you would like to know more about Silver Surfer:
- Silver Surfer Black
- Silver Surfer Requiem
- Silver Surfer Parable if you like Moebius
Creators of these issues:
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott, Stan Goldberg, Art Simek, and Sam RosenFind us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
36 min - Episode 1 - All About Skrulls
Episode 1: All About Skrulls
Today we are covering Fantastic Four 1, 2, 18, and 32.
Issue 1: The Fantastic Four!
Origin story of the Fantastic Four
- The summoning Flare Gun
- Sue Storm uses some sweet Rugby skills to tackle people while invisible
- Ben bursts through doors, streets, and walls
- Johnny slags cars and jets
- Reed has tremendous strength and toughness of hands
- Reed hugs people uncomfortably in the HUGS OF HORROR
- The military tries to nuke a city
- The F4 hijack a rocket
- Ben knows that cosmic rays are dangerous but everyone else doesn't care
- Why are they racing "the Commies"?
Issue 2: The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!
- The early Skrulls look like Muppet Fish, it's great!
- Thing's disguises often leave him looking horrific
- Johnny doesn't fear asbestos
- Everyone is jerks but they talk it out, because they are family
- Kludge
- The Skrull have WILD amounts of power but fear comic books
- Ben is sad and angry a lot due to his situation
- Three Skrull get turned into cows and definitely never show up again
Issue 18: A Skrull Walks Among Us
- Thing looks much more like his current portrayal
- Their costumes look much more modern as well
- King Skrull has a great crown
- Flying in an ICBM is dangerous
- Super-Skrull is OP
- Super Skrull captures the Earth with clever flag usage
- Super-Skrull has a sense of humor
- Hypnosis
Issue 32: Death of a Hero
- The "Photographs" from space are great
- Thing can't catch a break
- Reed is a jerk
- Marvel crowds are fickle
- Sue and Johnny's mom dies and their dad wrecks his life
- On the cover, the Impossible Man looks rad, in the comic he looks like a pickle man
- Death of Franklin Storm
If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:
Essential Fantastic Four Vol 1 and 2, Marvel Masterworks Vol. 1-3, Epic Collections Vol 1 and 2, Secret Invasion Rise of The Skrulls TPB as well as digitally on Comixology and Marvel Unlimited.If you would like to know more about the Skrulls, their history and their importance in the Marvel Universe:
- Marvel: The Lost Generation
- Avengers (1963) #92-97 and others for First Kree/Skrull War
- Incredible Hercules #118-120
- Fantastic Four #256
- Fantastic Four (2018) #5 for retelling #1
Creators of these issues:
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, George Klein, Christopher Rule, Stan Goldberg, Artie Simek, John Duffy, Dick Ayers, Paul Reinman, Sam Rosen, and Chic Stone.Find us on Twitter @ArtifactsOfI and ArtifactsOfInfinity.com
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Artifacts of Infinity is a Hybrid Continuity/Explainer Podcast. We focus on the cosmic aspects of Marvel continuity and foundational stories to help people find Cosmic Marvel more accessible.