MRC flashes back to October 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man #5, Fantastic Four #19, Journey Into Mystery #97 featuring Thor and Tales of Asgard, Strange Tales #113 with the Human Torch, Tales of Suspense #46 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish #48 with Ant-Man and the Wasp. Finger guns! Ill-advised speculation about why people are speaking English! Gigantic magic cows! Evil magic shears! Waddling Khrushchev! Flying gaseous porcupine powers!

Two big meteorites hit Marvel Comics in the second half of September 1963! First we cover Tales to Astonish 47 with Ant-Man and the Wasp, then we tackle X-Men 1 and The Avengers 1! Hypno-jazz! Magneto’s dainty signature! Horse juggling!

Marvel Reread tackles the first half of September, 1963, with Amazing Spider-Man #4, Fantastic Four 18, Journey Into Mystery featuring Thor 96, Strange Tales featuring the Human Torch 112, and Tales of Suspense featuring Iron Man 45. Poor photojournalism ethics! The fifth quadrant of the Andromeda Galaxy! Multiple missile test mishaps! Aqua-attractor guns! Cauliflower ears! And just wait until we get to Part 2!

Marvel Reread Club wraps up the rest of August 1963 (or thereabouts). We look at Tales of Suspense 44 with Iron Man, Tales to Astonish 46 with Ant-Man and the Wasp, and the massive Fantastic Four Annual 1 (which may or may not have come out this month.) Casters on sand! Flipped opinions of Don Heck! Knights on squids!

Marvel Reread Club tackles half the comics from August 1963, which means Fantastic Four 17, Journey Into Mystery 95 with Thor, and Strange Tales 111 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Kennedy’s Hair! Duplicated alley cats! Asbestos Man! Black magic experiments! Fun for all!

Marvel Reread Club marches into July 1963! That means Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 16, Journey into Mystery 94 with Thor, Strange Tales 110 with the Human Torch and the debut of Dr. Strange, Tales of Suspense 43 with Iron Man, and Tales to Astonish 45 with Ant-Man and the Wasp! Roy Orbison glasses! Acid fish! The Chromosomatic gland! The frightful two! A masterpiece Stan disowned! A second Atlantis! Jousting with iguanas! Check it out!

It’s a new Marvel Reread Club where we read just one issue, June 1963’s Tales to Astonish #44, joined by special guest Jeremy Whitley, the only writer to have written a Marvel comic starring any version of the Wasp in her own book! Pillbox hats! Laughter and gaiety! Sluggards confused with dullards!

t’s June 1963 at Marvel Reread Club! In this episode we tackle Fantastic Four 15, Journey Into Mystery 93 featuring Thor, Strange Tales 109 and Annual 2, both featuring the Human Torch, and Tales of Suspense 42 featuring Iron Man. That leaves one issue which will get its own very special guest episode next time. Predictable organ grinder monkeys! Hypnotic radiation! Imps of laziness! Super-glue filled purses! Projectile ham!

This week, in a break from the show’s usual format, we sit down with Douglas Wolk, the author of “All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told” and discuss his monumental achievement of reading every Marvel comic. We have an epic, wide-ranging discussion about what it all means, whether the older comics are primarily art or artifact, and whether you can make something morally coherent out of a story with so many authors representing fundamentally different eras of American history. And for the first time before a national audience, Douglas debuts his delightful ukulele theme song!

Welcome back to Marvel Reread Club! Today we tackle a whopping seven issues: Amazing Spider-Man 2, Fantastic Four 14, Thor in Journey into Mystery 92, Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos 1, the Human Torch in Strange Tales 108, Iron Man in Tales of Suspense 41, and Ant-Man in Tales to Astonish 43. Alien radio repairmen! Hypno-fish! Making Viking movies for charity! Surprisingly ineffective machine guns! Unbreakable smoke rings! Car juggling! Momentarily non-luscious chicks!