Fantasy Comic Book Editor League

And lo, there shall come an ending! With this episode, we conclude our 60 year history of the Amazing Comics Group. Never before has a comic book company that never existed been so extensively chronicled, and so ineptly documented. Our host will have to contend with his rotten reality lacking the relief valve which this podcast provided him. He is seriously considering buying a Monster Manual, or at least some Fentanyl. But to be honest, he’ll probably break down and record a second season, which will simply retell the history all over again even more compulsively. Don’t forget, this podcast is categorized under Mental Health, and what’s more edifying than seeing a person’s mind deteriorating in real time. Be on the look out for his upcoming podcasts Fantasy Quizno’s Manager’s League, Fantasy Safeway Shopper’s League, and Fantasy Alcoholics Anonymous Sponsor’s League. This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

The patient’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder fully kicks in and forces him to record an episode that mostly reiterates another episode with a few changes. Living the vida loca sounds way funner than it actually is.

Last podcast cut off by Anchor due to one hour limit. Listened, drank more, trimmed recording, published, then immediately recorded this. Kept drinking. I have to work tomorrow. What are you doing, Dave. Daisy, daisy, give me your answer troooohr…

After hitting rock bottom this week, our wasted and wounded Patient hastily concocts a barely-coherent fantasy comic book company just so he can escape into the womb-like purgatory of his ponderous podcast. Lacking a looking glass, wardrobe, Mother Box, or a pair of ruby slippers, he escapes reality with only a bottle of ersatz bourbon and his unconditional love of comics. A cautionary tale.

In this issue, we shine a little more light on Fun Weekly, our comic book for the wee ones. Then again, how many adults would shit their pants in delight if they could ever find issue #47? Swaddled in a Mac Raboy Captain Marvel Family cover, Otto Binder and C.C. Beck serve up a 15 page adventure of them, Basil Wolverton brings us a 4 page Scoop Scuttle knee-slapper, Carl Barks sends Justin Time and his Uncle Scrooge back to the Aztec Empire for a meaty 12 pager, a center spread luxuriously reprints a Little Nemo In Slumberland by Winsor McCay, George Carlson delivers another delightful Jingle Jangle Tale, Walt Kelly gives us a Pogo and Albert story, John Stanley supplies a perfect kid comic, and Boody Rogers tops it off with a Sparky Watts story. Superb!

In his mission to further illuminate the not-so-brightly lit corners of the Amazing Comics Group, our Host describes the various features of Amazing Weekly with a wit wetted by wine and Pepsi. Take #116 for example. Cover by L.B. Cole, a Thun’da story by Frank Frazetta, a Plastic Man adventure by Jack Cole, Spacehawk by Basil Wolverton, a western tale by Everett Raymond Kinstler, a Prince Valiant reprint by Hal Foster, a classic post-war Spirit by Will Eisner, Hey Look by Harvey Kurtzman, a romance comic by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Babe by Boody Rogers, and a Bernard Krigstein story. Now that’s a gonga!

Can you imagine a comic book line that published Elfquest, American Flagg!, Love and Rockets, Watchmen, and Hellboy? We did! Zero Comics, the creator-owned imprint of the Amazing Comics Group, is disingenuously delineated with delirious delight by our drunken docent.

Remember Zero Monthly #283? Cover by Robert Williams, a B. Kliban one-pager, the latest chapter of Freakwave by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy, a Harvey Pekar vignette drawn by R. Crumb, the latest chapter of V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, a Gerald Jablonski one-pager, an Incal story by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, a long Ben Katchor story, a Rick Geary one-pager, a painted comic by Kent Williams, a comic by Art Spiegelman, a P. Craig Russell comic, a Hunt Emerson short, a Dragonflame story by Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy, a Joost Swarte short, an El Borbah story by Charles Burns, a reprint of Pablo Picasso’s fanzine comics work, and a comic by Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch? No, YOU DON’T! Because it only exists in my brain, along with the other 749 issues! How about Zero Monthly #145? Cover by Frank Frazetta, a short by Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Elder, a Richard Corben comic, the latest chapter of Lone Wolf And Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, a comic by Gilbert Shelton, a horror story by Bruce Jones and Berni Wrightson, a Basil Wolverton 2-pager, the latest chapter of Lt. Blueberry by Jean-Michele Charlier and Jean Giraud, a Rick Griffin psychedelic comic, a Voltar story by Alfredo Alcala, an Edward Gorey story, a Jim Steranko comic, a painted comic by Jeff Jones, a Mr. A story by Steve Ditko, a Greg Irons comic, a comic by Bernard Krigstein, a Jules Feiffer vignette, and a comic by Alex Niño. IT’S ALL IN MY HEAD! I HAVE TO GO NOW!

A landmark episode! Our Host figures out how to use the editing tools on Anchor because he recorded past the 60 minute limit, so this issue ends abruptly with no farewell at the end. This is the first half of a two-parter about Zero, the best comic never published. Wakka Ding Hoy!

In preparation for recording this latest illumination of the not-so-brightly-lit corners of the Amazing Comics Group (The Good), a healthy libation of cream sherry and Diet Pepsi (The Bad) is imbibed by our lugubrious Host (The Ugly). If you’ve been disappointed with the lack of slurred speech and yawning in your podcasts, this will be a sumptuous banquet for your ears. Crunchatize me Cap’n!