Comics Over Time

This year we begin to see the backlash against superheroes as the Batman TV show enters its 3rd and final season, and many comic companies began to feel the effects of a contracting market and superhero fatigue. 

Preshow

• Announcement: Murdock and Marvel moves back to Wednesday Starting Next Week

The Year in Comics

Key Happenings

Best Selling Books... and Marvels

The Year in Marvel

While the rest of the comic world was losing ground, the Marvel Comics juggernaut kept rolling.  Marvel’s sales continued to surge, and many Marvel books were now ready to challenge DC’s top offerings.

New Titles

New Characters

Big Moments

Who's in the Bullpen

• ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Herb Trimpe

The Year in Daredevil 

Appearances: Daredevil Issues #24-35, Strange Tales #156 and Daredevil Annual #1

• Stan Lee and Gene Colan are credited with all of these stories  

New Powers, Toys or Places

This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #28 May 1967 “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Planet”

Recap

Why We Picked This Story

The Takeaway

Comics can’t survive on superheroes alone.

Questions or comments

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime.

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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 

Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 

The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 

Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 

Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra’s Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.   

The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. 

Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. 

My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. 

BOOKLIST 

The following books have been frequently used as reference while preparing summaries of the comic history segments of our show.  Each and every one comes recommended by Dan for fans wanting to read more about it! 

Licari, Fabio and Marco Rizzo.  Marvel: The First 80 Years: The True Story of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon.  London: Titan Books, 2020.  This book is sort of a mess, as the print quality is terrible, and Titan doesn’t even credit the authors unless you check the fine print.  It’s like this was published by Marvel in the early 60s! But the information is good, and it is presented in an entertaining fashion.  So its decent, but I would recommend you see if you can just borrow it from the library instead of purchasing. 

Wells, John.  American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964.  Raleigh: Two Morrows, 2015.  Not cheap, but a fantastic series that is informative and fun to read. 

Wright, Bradford.  Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  This is the revised edition. 

Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2022.  The academic in my rails at using information from any work that doesn’t have an author credit, but this is a decent (if very surface) look at each year in the history of Timely / Marvel from 1939 to 2021.   

Cowsill, Alan et al.  DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2010.  Because its nice to occasionally take a peek at what the Distinguished Competition is up to. 

Dauber, Jeremy.  American Comics: A History.  New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.  An excellent, relatively compact history of the domestic comic industry from its 19th century origins through to recent 21st century developments.  An excellent successor to Bradford Wright’s Comic Book Nation. 

Marvel Unlimited for February 18th-24th, 2024

Welcome back to What’s New in Marvel Unlimited!  This is Dan, and each week my daughter Siena and I are looking at which Marvel comics are releasing digitally through the Marvel Unlimited app.  For this week we are focusing on the week February 18th-24th, 2024

QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK

• 30 total new items

INFINITY COMICS

“STANDARD” COMICS

JUMPING ON POINTS

• Star Wars Visions and Return of the Jedi are one-shots

BINGEABLE

• Children of the Vault ends with #4

• Fantastic Four #13

• Spine-Tingling Spider-Man #2

WHAT’S NEXT

See you next week for another look at what’s new in the world of Marvel Unlimited!

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram or Bluesky as @comicsovertime.

Make sure to subscribe now in order to get our weekly look at what is new on the Marvel Unlimited App.  You can find us anywhere fine podcasts are available, including iTunes, Google, Amazon, Spotify and our hosting platform Podbean!

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1966 saw America sink even deeper into Vietnam, with war deaths tripling from 1965 to 1966, Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California, and the first artificial heart surgery was performed.  It was a big year in American pop culture as well, with both Star Trek and the Batman TV show debuting and the Beach Boys releasing their “Pet Sounds” album.  On the Daredevil front, our hero entered his first full publication year, with a full 12 issues for Duane to revel in! 

Preshow

• Our first No Prize award

The Year in Comics

New Comics, Creators & Characters

Big Moments

Best Selling Books... and Marvels

The Year in Marvel

Starts and Ends

New Characters

Big Moments

Who's in the Bullpen

• ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Jim Steranko

The Year in Daredevil 

Appearances: Daredevil Issues 12-23, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3 and Amazing Spider-Man #43 

• New Artist for books 12-19: John Romita Sr.  

New Powers, Toys or Places

This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil Issues #22 November 1966 “The Tri-Man Lives!” and #23 December 1966 “DD Goes Wild!” 

Recap

Why We Picked This Story

The Takeaway

Batmania and Endgame. The dangers of getting too big into pop culture.

Questions or comments

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime.

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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 

Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 

The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 

Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 

Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra’s Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.   

The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. 

Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. 

My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. 

BOOKLIST 

The following books have been frequently used as reference while preparing summaries of the comic history segments of our show.  Each and every one comes recommended by Dan for fans wanting to read more about it! 

Licari, Fabio and Marco Rizzo.  Marvel: The First 80 Years: The True Story of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon.  London: Titan Books, 2020.  This book is sort of a mess, as the print quality is terrible, and Titan doesn’t even credit the authors unless you check the fine print.  It’s like this was published by Marvel in the early 60s! But the information is good, and it is presented in an entertaining fashion.  So its decent, but I would recommend you see if you can just borrow it from the library instead of purchasing. 

Wells, John.  American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964.  Raleigh: Two Morrows, 2015.  Not cheap, but a fantastic series that is informative and fun to read. 

Wright, Bradford.  Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  This is the revised edition. 

Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2022.  The academic in my rails at using information from any work that doesn’t have an author credit, but this is a decent (if very surface) look at each year in the history of Timely / Marvel from 1939 to 2021.   

Cowsill, Alan et al.  DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2010.  Because its nice to occasionally take a peek at what the Distinguished Competition is up to. 

Dauber, Jeremy.  American Comics: A History.  New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.  An excellent, relatively compact history of the domestic comic industry from its 19th century origins through to recent 21st century developments.  An excellent successor to Bradford Wright’s Comic Book Nation. 

Daredevil swings into his first full year, and for both the comics industry and America at large it is a time filled with transformation and more than a bit of fear for what the future holds.  Marvel is ascendant.  Other companies are trying to adjust, and the world outside the window seems to be on fire.  Welcome to 1965. 

Preshow

• Duane and Marvel Snap

The Year in Comics

1965 was a difficult year in American politics and culture.  Comics largely stayed clear of outright commentary on civil rights or war, but Selma, the death of Malcolm X, and the Watts riots made it increasingly difficult for comics to continue ignoring black Americans.  Similarly, the Vietnam and rising opposition to it began to change war (and superhero) comics.  America and Russia also were accelerating the space race, fueling even more space and science plots. 

New Comics, Creators & Characters

Big Moments

Best Selling Books... and Marvels

The Year in Marvel

1965 was another great year for Marvel Comics, as a number of the creators, characters and storylines that would be important to the company’s future enter the picture.  Not everything went well, though, and there were a number of missteps, including a line-wide rebranding. 

Starts and Ends

New Characters

Big Moments

Who's in the Bullpen

• ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Roy Thomas

The Year in Daredevil 

Appearances: Daredevil Issues 6-11, Journey into Mystery #116, Fantastic Four (1961) #39-40, X-Men #13 and Fantastic Four Annual #3

• New Artist for books 6-11: Wally Wood (who also wrote book 10)  

New Powers, Toys or Places

This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #7 April 1965

Recap

Why We Picked This Story

The Takeaway

Daredevil is a Soap Opera for boys

Questions or comments

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime.

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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 

Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 

The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 

Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 

Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra’s Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.   

The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. 

Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. 

My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. 

BOOKLIST 

The following books have been frequently used as reference while preparing summaries of the comic history segments of our show.  Each and every one comes recommended by Dan for fans wanting to read more about it! 

Licari, Fabio and Marco Rizzo.  Marvel: The First 80 Years: The True Story of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon.  London: Titan Books, 2020.  This book is sort of a mess, as the print quality is terrible, and Titan doesn’t even credit the authors unless you check the fine print.  It’s like this was published by Marvel in the early 60s! But the information is good, and it is presented in an entertaining fashion.  So its decent, but I would recommend you see if you can just borrow it from the library instead of purchasing. 

Wells, John.  American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964.  Raleigh: Two Morrows, 2015.  Not cheap, but a fantastic series that is informative and fun to read. 

Wright, Bradford.  Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  This is the revised edition. 

Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2022.  The academic in my rails at using information from any work that doesn’t have an author credit, but this is a decent (if very surface) look at each year in the history of Timely / Marvel from 1939 to 2021.   

Cowsill, Alan et al.  DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2010.  Because its nice to occasionally take a peek at what the Distinguished Competition is up to. 

Dauber, Jeremy.  American Comics: A History.  New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.  An excellent, relatively compact history of the domestic comic industry from its 19th century origins through to recent 21st century developments.  An excellent successor to Bradford Wright’s Comic Book Nation. 

On last week’s show we discussed the long history of Marvel Comics from 1939 to 1963. This week we finally see where Stan, Jack and the rest of the Marvel bullpen had been leading up to.  It's time to talk about 1964, and the debut of the World's Most Interesting Superhero – Daredevil! 

Listener Feedback

• Let us know what you think of the new season

The Year in Comics

1964 was an eventful year in America, and many of the things going in politics and culture made their way into the comics.

New Comics, Creators & Characters

Big Moments

Best Selling Books... and Marvels

The Year in Marvel

By the start of 1964 most of the characters that would headline the Marvel Universe were already in place.  But there were still new characters and places to fill in, and 1964 added a number of Avengers and villains to the world.  Even as the cast of characters grew, though, Lee still had a limited number of monthly titles he could put out due to a restrictive distribution deal.  His solution?  Tales to Astonish would be divided in half, and would co-star the Incredible Hulk and Giant Man.  Later in the year Tales of Suspense would follow, with Cap and Iron Man sharing the title as of issue #59 

Starts and Ends

New Characters

Who's in the Bullpen

• ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: George Tuska

Stories to Remember

The Year in Daredevil 

Appearances: Daredevil Issues 1-5, Amazing Spider-Man #16 and #18

• The stories were all written by Stan Lee by art was by three different artists: Bill Everett for issue 1, Joe Orlando for 2-4, and Wallace “Wally” Wood for issue 5 – who’s announced in the title as the permanent artist. 

New Powers, Toys or Places

This Week's Spotlight: Daredevil #4 October 1964

Recap

Why We Picked This Story

The Takeaway

Daredevil and the Blind Community

Questions or comments

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime.

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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 

Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 

The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 

Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 

Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra’s Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.   

The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. 

Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. 

My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. 

BOOKLIST 

The following books have been frequently used as reference while preparing summaries of the comic history segments of our show.  Each and every one comes recommended by Dan for fans wanting to read more about it! 

Licari, Fabio and Marco Rizzo.  Marvel: The First 80 Years: The True Story of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon.  London: Titan Books, 2020.  This book is sort of a mess, as the print quality is terrible, and Titan doesn’t even credit the authors unless you check the fine print.  It’s like this was published by Marvel in the early 60s! But the information is good, and it is presented in an entertaining fashion.  So its decent, but I would recommend you see if you can just borrow it from the library instead of purchasing. 

Wells, John.  American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964.  Raleigh: Two Morrows, 2015.  Not cheap, but a fantastic series that is informative and fun to read. 

Wright, Bradford.  Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  This is the revised edition. 

Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2022.  The academic in my rails at using information from any work that doesn’t have an author credit, but this is a decent (if very surface) look at each year in the history of Timely / Marvel from 1939 to 2021.   

Cowsill, Alan et al.  DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2010.  Because its nice to occasionally take a peek at what the Distinguished Competition is up to. 

Dauber, Jeremy.  American Comics: A History.  New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.  An excellent, relatively compact history of the domestic comic industry from its 19th century origins through to recent 21st century developments.  An excellent successor to Bradford Wright’s Comic Book Nation. 

Marvel Unlimited for February 5th, 2024

Welcome back to What’s New in Marvel Unlimited!  Dan and Siena visit about the Marvel Unlimited releases for the week of February 4th – 10th, 2024.  Dan wonders when heroes got so murder-y, and Siena binges on Doctor Strange.

QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK

• 22 total new items

INFINITY COMICS

“STANDARD” COMICS

 JUMPING ON POINTS

• Ultimate Universe #1

BINGEABLE

• Magneto #4 ends the mini-series

• Ultimate Universe #1  

• Scarlet Witch

WHAT’S NEXT

See you next week for another look at what’s new in the world of Marvel Unlimited!

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram or Bluesky as @comicsovertime.

Make sure to subscribe now in order to get our weekly look at what is new on the Marvel Unlimited App.  You can find us anywhere fine podcasts are available, including iTunes, Google, Amazon, Spotify and our hosting platform Podbean!

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 Marvel Unlimited for January 29th, 2024

Welcome back to What’s New in Marvel Unlimited!  This is Dan, and each week my daughter Siena and I are looking at which Marvel comics are releasing digitally through the Marvel Unlimited app.  For this week we are focusing on the week January 28 – Feb 3, 2024

QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK

• 24 total new items

INFINITY COMICS

“STANDARD” COMICS

JUMPING ON POINTS

• Hallow’s Eve

** These all came out on October 25th - Halloween week **

BINGEABLE

• X-Men Days of Future Past: Doomsday

• Immortal Thor #3

• Marvel Zombies: Black, White & Blood #1

WRAP-UP

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram or Bluesky as @comicsovertime.

Make sure to subscribe now in order to get our weekly look at what is new on the Marvel Unlimited App.  You can find us anywhere fine podcasts are available, including iTunes, Google, Amazon, Spotify and our hosting platform Podbean!

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Normally we will be moving a year at a time, starting with Daredevil’s introduction in 1964.  But this week we want to set the stage, with a quick look at the early years of the Marvel Universe, from 1961-1963.

Reintroducing Ourselves

The Year in Comics

Comic books in the early 1960s were selling at levels that today’s publishers can’t even hope to attain, but the industry still down in comparison to the heady days of the pre-code “Golden Age” of comics during the 1940s and 1950s.

SALES DATA 

Publisher  

Monthly Copies 

Market Share 

Dell  

 9,686,424  

 37% 

National (DC)  

 6,653,485  

 25% 

Harvey  

 2,514,879  

 10% 

Charlton  

 2,500,000  

 10% 

Marvel  

 2,253,112  

 9% 

Archie  

 1,608,489  

 6% 

ACG  

 975,000  

 4% 

The Year in Marvel

• Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman

Many important creators worked for Marvel during this time, but according to the data in the Grand Comics Database it was primarily the work of 2 writers, 3 artists, 3 inkers, two letterers and one colorist that set the groundwork for the Marvel universe. These 11 creators are: 

Stan Lee 

476 

Writer/Editor 

Larry Lieber 

260 

Writer 

Steve Ditko 

253 

Writer/Artist 

Jack Kirby 

222 

Writer/Artist 

Don Heck 

132 

Artist 

Dick Ayers 

173 

Inker for Kirby / Penciller 

Paul Reinman 

52 

Inker for Kirby / Penciller 

Sol Brodsky 

36 

Inker / Production Manager 

Artie Simek 

303 

Letterer 

Ray Holloway 

62 

Letterer.  Black creator 

Stan Goldberg 

424 

Colorist / Artist (humor stuff) 

The Year in Daredevil 

Way back in 1940 Jack Binder created the first Daredevil as a boomerang wielding vigilante who had a tragic backstory like Batman and was fighting Hitler in the comics before the US entered the war like Captain America.  The character was popular through the 1940s, but was mothballed when superheroes went out of favor in the 1950s.

Note: Jack Binder is the older brother of Otto Binder, co-creator of Mary Marvel, Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes!  Otto was one of the all-time greats in comics, with over 50,000 pages written over parts of five decades. For more about him check out: 

Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary by Bill Schelly (2016) 

• https://www.penguinrandomhouseretail.com/book/?isbn=9781623170370

This Week's Spotlight

No spotlight this week because there haven't been any Daredevil comics published yet! The fun starts next week. 

The Takeaway

The Marvel boom of the 1960s heralded a fundamental transformation of the comics industry.  Marvel books skewed towards older audiences, with more disposable income.  Marvel fans increasingly looked at comic writing or drawing as a preferred career choice, and both the comic industry and comic fandom began a transformation that would result in the creation of specialty shops and the direct market.  One way to see this change is to look at how the popularity of comic “genres” changed over time. 

Marvel genres in the early 1960s 

• Humor (13 titles, 116 issues, 25%) 

Marvel by the late 1960s is over 50% Superhero! 

Questions or comments

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @comicsoftime.

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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 

Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 

The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 

Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 

Man Without Fear: Kuljit Mithra’s Daredevil site contains a staggering collection of resources about our hero, including news, interviews and comic details.   

The American Comic Book Chronicles: Published by TwoMorrows, these volumes provide an excellent analysis of American comics through the years.  Because these volumes break down comic history by year and decade they are a great place to get a basic orientation on what is happening across the comic industry at a particular point in time. 

Joshua and Jamie Do Daredevil: A fantastic podcast that does a deep-dive into Daredevil comics.  This ran from 2018-2020, and covered most of the first volume of Daredevil, and was a fun way to get an in-depth look at each issue of Daredevil from 1-377. 

My Marvelous Year: This is a reading-club style podcast where Dave Buesing and friends chose important or interesting books from a particular year to read and discuss.  This helped me remember some fun and crazy stories, and would be a great companion piece to Murdock and Marvel for those who want more comic-story-specific coverage. 

BOOKLIST 

The following books have been frequently used as reference while preparing summaries of the comic history segments of our show.  Each and every one comes recommended by Dan for fans wanting to read more about it! 

Licari, Fabio and Marco Rizzo.  Marvel: The First 80 Years: The True Story of a Pop-Culture Phenomenon.  London: Titan Books, 2020.  This book is sort of a mess, as the print quality is terrible, and Titan doesn’t even credit the authors unless you check the fine print.  It’s like this was published by Marvel in the early 60s! But the information is good, and it is presented in an entertaining fashion.  So its decent, but I would recommend you see if you can just borrow it from the library instead of purchasing. 

Wells, John.  American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-1964.  Raleigh: Two Morrows, 2015.  Not cheap, but a fantastic series that is informative and fun to read. 

Wright, Bradford.  Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  This is the revised edition. 

Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2022.  The academic in my rails at using information from any work that doesn’t have an author credit, but this is a decent (if very surface) look at each year in the history of Timely / Marvel from 1939 to 2021.   

Cowsill, Alan et al.  DC Comics Year by Year: A Visual History.  New York: DK Publishing, 2010.  Because its nice to occasionally take a peek at what the Distinguished Competition is up to. 

Dauber, Jeremy.  American Comics: A History.  New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.  An excellent, relatively compact history of the domestic comic industry from its 19th century origins through to recent 21st century developments.  An excellent successor to Bradford Wright’s Comic Book Nation. 

Marvel Unlimited for January 22th, 2024

Welcome back to What’s New in Marvel Unlimited!  This is Dan, and each week my daughter Siena and I are taking a look at which Marvel comics are releasing digitally through the Marvel Unlimited app.  For this week we are focusing on the week January 21 – 27, 2024

QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE WEEK

• 21 total new items

INFINITY COMICS

“STANDARD” COMICS

JUMPING ON POINTS

• Spine-Tingling Spider-Man

** These all came out late October, just before Halloween

BINGEABLE

• Crypt of Shadows

** 8 of the 16 books this week either just ended or will be ending in the next few months

• Avengers Inc.

• Sensational She-Hulk

WHAT’S NEXT

• Episode 5 will feature the comics for January 28 – February 3, 2024

We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram or Bluesky as @comicsovertime.

Make sure to subscribe now in order to get our weekly look at what is new on the Marvel Unlimited App.  You can find us anywhere fine podcasts are available, including iTunes, Google, Amazon, Spotify and our hosting platform Podbean!

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This week we get a chance to finish our review of the last 2 or so years of Moon Knight in print and on TV.  Its been quite a ride, and all that is left now is to take a look at the trippy last two episodes of the Disney+ show, and talk a bit about where things might go from here, and settle that small issue of Mohamad Diab and Co. vs. Jed MacKay and friends. 

Episode Recap and Discussion Topics

Asylum was still a gut punch

Final episode was a bit jarring

Oscar Isaac is phenomenal 

Music fit perfectly

The Future of Moon Knight

In comics?

In the MCU?

Face Off!

• Which Did it better? The Comics or the Movie

What's Next: New Season focusing on Marvel comic history and Daredevil 

• Podcast release day is switching to Thursday. 

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