Marvel Reread Club

MRC wraps up May 1965 with Tales of Suspense #65 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #67 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #11, and Avengers #16. Weasel Wills! More barely-rewritten Joe Simon! Bees in test tubes! A literal cliffhanger! Taking names off Cerebro! Endless press conferences! Check it out!

MRC flips for May 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #24, Fantastic Four #38, Journey Into Mystery #116 with Thor, and Strange Tales #132 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange. Taking the fishbowl off your head and putting actual fish in it! Evil trousseau creations! The Collettapocalypse! Stan vs. Larry Ivie! Orb/Eye confusion! Check it out!

MRC gets crushed under the remainder of April 1965, featuring Strange Tales with Human Torch and Dr. Strange #131, Tales of Suspense with Iron Man and Captain America #64, Tales to Astonish with Giant-Man and the Hulk #66, and Avengers #15. The Bouncing Ball of Doom! Lackeys of lackeys of lackeys! Hurtling handcars! The endlessly confusing Carter Family! Deadly plastic toy tractors! Proton guns! Villains imprisoned with their melting rays on! Check it out!

MRC dives into March 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #23, Daredevil #7, Fantastic Four #37 and Thor #115. Bumbling costumed fools! Running amok! Demolo-guns! Limbo-ing Thor! Check it out!

MRC wraps up March 1965 with Tales of Suspense #63 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish #65 with Giant-Man and the Hulk, X-Men #10 and Avengers #14. The most forgettable villain ever! Beautiful hags! Oomphy looks! The world’s luckiest Soviet sub! The first and/or last refuge of the incompetent! Two sub-polar cities! Check it out!

MRC snakes its way though March 1965, with Amazing Spider-Man #22, Fantastic Four #36, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #114, and Strange Tales #130 with Human Torch and Dr. Strange! Feminine wiles! Unconquerable hair! Subautronic space distorters! Asbestos Beatles wigs! Cravats! Check it out!

MRC welcomes back special guest Rob Salkowitz who was nice enough to stick around and mop up the rest of February 1965 with Strange Tales 129 with Human Torch and Dr Strange, Tales of Suspense 62 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 64 with Giant-Man and the Hulk and Avengers 13. Just add a back seat, Dick! Tension, unrest, war and anarchy! Knee suction cups! Suspiciously sinister eyebrows! Must oil my W! All the Way with LBJ! Non-physical chemicals! Check it out!

MRC welcomes special guest Rob Salkowitz, comics columnist for Forbes Magazine and author of “Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture”. Rob helps us struggle through the first half of February, 1965, featuring Amazing Spider-Man 21, Daredevil 6, Fantastic Four 35, and Journey Into Mystery 113 with Thor. The great Human Torch villain exodus! Actors playing Ox are always just Ox! High school boys striking out with college girls! Cow sized helmet wings! Check it out!

MRC wrestles with the second half of January 1965, featuring Tales of Suspense 61 with Iron Man and Captain America, Tales to Astonish 63 with Giant Man and the Hulk, X-Men 9 and Avengers 12! Continued confusion about which Asian country has which martial art! Distended foreheads! Put-upon tourists! Disappointingly ape-less Red Ghosts!

Our 50th episode! MRC hurtles into January 1965 with Amazing Spider-Man #20, Fantastic Four #34, Journey Into Mystery with Thor #112 and Strange Tales with Human Torch and Dr. Strange #128. Hooray! Beatles Wigs! Colletta’s infamous eraser! Better than average pinups! Pants with no-one inside ‘em! Check it out!