Back in 1972,  Marvel & DC published a crossover that was so secret, even they didn't know they'd published it!

Rogue Marvel & DC writers Steve Englehart, Len Wein, & Gerry Conway conspired to have a crossover take place between their three magazines, Amazing Adventures #15 (featuring the X-Men's Beast and drawn by Bob Brown & Marie Severin), Justice League Of America #102 (drawn by Dick Dillin), and The Mighty Thor #207 (drawn by John Buscema)  without telling their respective companies they were doing so.

The backdrop for this storyline was Rutland, Vermont's annual Halloween festival, (a real-life event, by the way) which had many of the attendees decked out in superhero garb and Englehart, Wein, & Conway inserted themselves (and their respective wives and girlfriends) as characters who wind up as part of the adventure.  

Scooby-Doo style, the gang helps the superheroes vanquish their foes and Marvel and DC saved Halloween...without either of them knowing it.  And it remained that way for years.

Hosted by Chris Karam and Brad Page

This episode, we look back on the life and career of Ace Frehley, a guitarist and founding member of KISS.

Space Ace ihad a major impact on many 70s kids' lives including me and my guest Bakko (Cobras and Fire podcast) and we discuss Ace's music, both with KISS and his later solo career.  Ace was a true Rock Soldier who managed to influence many fans as well as guitar players.

We take a deep dive into what made the Spaceman great and salute his long and storied career.

ACK!

In 1973, writer Steve Englehart decided to crossover the two titles he was writing for Marvel, The Avengers and The Defenders for a summer-long epic that has come to be known as The Avengers / Defenders War!

With artists Bob Brown (Avengers) and Sal Buscema (Defenders), Englehart scripted an epic tale that crossed galaxies and pitted  hero against hero against villains for the ultimate contest.  This was during a time when crossovers of this scale were not common and this story has gone on to become a legendary tale of Marvel's classic '70s era!

Your hosts, as always, are Chris Karam and Brad Page.

On July 22, 2025, the rock world lost one of the innovators of heavy metal and shock rock, Ozzy Osbourne.

Ozzy's career spanned over 50 years, first as lead singer of Black Sabbath, dubbed by many as the first heavy metal band, and then, as a solo artist who set the rock world on fire with his hard rock masterpieces and madman persona, onstage and off.

Mad or not, Ozzy entertained millions of fans and spanned generations with his career, even making a splash as a reality show TV star with his family's namesake show, The Osbournes.

Alex Alt (Slydog Music Cast) and me pore over the legacy of this crazy man who may have been many things, but dull wasn't one of them.

RIP, John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne.

This episode, we delve into the final chapters of Spider-Man's original Clone Saga from 1975 (Amazing Spider-Man #147 - 150, where Peter Parker has to face the uncertainty of whether or not he's the real Spidey or just some clone of the Jackal's.

This saga also has Spidey dealing with his arch-foe Tarantula, who is in league with The Jackal in his insidious plot to get revenge on our webbed hero, in a saga written by Gerry Conway and drawn by Ross Andru.

Who will win?  Who will die?  Only way to find out is to listen to this episode! (or actually read the books!]

1975 was a pivotal year for KISS: It was the year they finally broke through to the masses and the year they released their signature song and the album that put them on the map.

We take a look at the events of 50 years ago, starting with the release of Dressed To Kill, as well as the subsequent tour that would give birth to the album that broke the band in a big way, Alive!

Bakko (Cobras and Fire podcast) helped me delve into this massive year, arguably the most important one in the band's history.  We had fun doing so, as we always do!

With the recent release of the new Fantastic Four movie, we decided to explore one of the FF's definitive sagas -- "The Galactus Trilogy" from Fantastic Four #48 - 50!

We go back to the Marvel Age of comics for an epic saga brought to us by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and break it down issue-by-issue.  No plot point or soap opera subplot is too small to escape our analytical clutches!

It's always fun going back to the comics that started it all and this is an FF classic like no other and was partially the basis for the new movie!  Enjoy...and let us know what you're thinking by posting a comment in our Facebook group!  You'll be glad you did!

Hosted by Brad Page and Chris Karam.

When guitarist Joe Perry left the Aerosmith mothership in 1979, he wasted no time in putting together his own group, The Joe Perry Project.  Over the course of five years, the group would release three albums amidst a revolving door of musicians and internal struggles.

Perry's devotion to making music never wavered, however, and the jPP became  the ultimate road dogs, touring constantly between record releases in the early 80s.  On this episode, Julian Gill (KISS FAQ podcast) and I look at those albums as well as the constant changes in the band.

Joe Perry let the music do the talking and we do plenty of talking about that!

40 years ago, DC Comics released the revolutionary mini-series Crisis On Infinite Earths.  "Worlds will live!  Worlds will die!  And the DC Universe will never be the same!"  That wasn't just mere marketing hype, it was what actually happened as DC decided to consolidate their multiverse of earths into one single earth.

This series shook the DC Universe to its core and paved the way for new beginnings and directions and we have writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez to thank for that.

We discuss this groundbreaking series in depth and analyze what worked and...what didn't.

Join us as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of a series that had a profound impact on DC Comics!

By the mid-90s, Van Ha,len was in crisis mode; while seemingly  still a successful band, ruptures between guitarist Eddie Van Halen and vocalist Sammy Hagar forced Hagar's departure from the band in 1996.  What followed were 24 years filled with chaos, egos, drugs, booze, and periods where Van Halen lay fallow for years at a time.

Alex Alt (Slydog Music Cast) and me will explore the period 1996-2020, during which time Van Halen went through four singers (one of which you may never have heard of), yet only produced two studio albums, one of which remains a controversial and divisive one among fans to this day.

We explore the good, the bad, the ugly and the...whatever, as Van Halen went from being a legendary band, to being rock's greatest soap opera; hence the reason why this episode is entitled "As Van Halen Turns."  Check it out!