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The Marvel Handbook is a podcast featuring scores of commentators celebrating the 80th anniversary of Marvel Comics by discussing its seminal encyclopedic periodical, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, beginning with the January 1983 cover-dated debut issue. Ultimately, thousands of characters and concepts will be explored over the course of multiple series. The Marvel Handbook features language appropriate for most ages, but will as needed explore potentially sensitive topics. The teaser promo features audio with Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Ann Nocenti, Harlan Ellison, Steve Ditko, Len Wein, Gerry Conway, and G. Willow Wilson derived from various online resources.The show begins streaming regularly in October, 2019.

On our music & memories show, co-hosts Diabolu Frank, Ill Mac, & Joe Fixit each select a song to discuss, relating facts about its release, its meaning, and how it relates to them anecdotally.

Tracklist

1. “Bette Davis Eyes” from the 1981 album Mistaken Identity by Kim Carnes
2. “Lost in the Supermarket” from the 1979 album London Calling by The Clash
3. “Jocko Homo” from the 1977 dual single Mongoloid / Jocko Homo by Devo

Artists: Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit
Label: Rolled Spine Podcasts
Format: MP3 Digital Download/Streaming
Country: USA
Released: 11 September 2019
Genre: Synth-pop, Post-punk, Art Rock

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Note: We like our language NSFW salty, and there be spoilers here…

Face Front, True Believers! We’re back! Waaay back! Presented this episode is a colossal collection of clips dating back years to the earliest days of the show! And by “we’re back” we mean Frank and one of the granddaddies of our podcasting circles, Shagggg of The Fire and Water Podcast Network! The show is culled from numerous recording sessions spanning many hours, and you’ll be amazed at all the hubris and left turns and forgotten ventures discussed! Excelsior!

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Spawn #20 & Daring Escapes #1-4 & Spawn/Batman [“Red Scare”] & Batman/Spawn: War Devil

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Spawn #20

by Tom Orzechowski & Andrew Grossberg and Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington & Todd McFarlane

“Showtime” Part 2
Dedicated To: Roy Thomas

…Yousef Volokhov, a visiting scientist from the East-West Atomic Warfare, Science and Applications Conference, is still unaccounted for…

Percival Issacsen-Smythe, please… Fitzgerald, Terence D., A5A-923777… Yo Percy. I just got the bejeesus kicked out of me. Nah, some match-crisp dude helped me out.

I had so much to learn from you, Houdini– if you really were Houdini.

Daring Escapes #1-4 (1998)

by Tom Orzechowski & Andy Grossberg and Alan Weiss & Jim Fern & Art Nichols

Spawn-Batman (1994)

by by Frank Miller & Todd McFarlane

Among the dregs of humanity, Batman listens– for any scant clue… now and then he hears legends of one of their own named “Al”– a bum possessed with magical powers. Nonsense, he thinks.

It’s not just a story. It was Batman. And if he’s working for Nadia Vladova– or Margaret Love, as she’s calling herself– then he’s not the hero everybody says he is…

Batman-Spawn: War Devil (1994)

by Doug Moench & Chuck Dixon & Alan Grant and Klaus Janson

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While pursuing the Swill brothers, Brisco is injured. Found by Professor Wickwire as he toured the country with his rocket, the pair end up in a supposed “ghost town” now inhabited solely by women. Meanwhile, Lord Bowler has been hired by Socrates Poole for the Westerfield Club to track down and recover a “mobile battle wagon,” stolen from the government by the Swill’s Cousin Ed. Also this episode: Bob the Goon, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Key West, and more!

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Spawn #19 & WildC.A.T.s Trilogy & WildC.A.T.s Special

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Spawn #19

by Greg Capullo & Mark Pennington and Tom Orzechowski & Andrew Grossberg

"Showtime" Part 1
Dedicated To: Chris Claremont

This atomic event may tell us something about the effects of mundane high-energy particle bombardment on infernal matter.

Elsewhen/where: The place is known as The Overlap. It is a reality that intersects all planes of existence. It is the birthplace of what's called magic.

There's no way I'm going to believe you're Harry Houdini... Aren't you dead or something?
 

WildC.A.T.s Trilogy #1-3 (1993)

by Jae Lee and Brandon Choi & Dafydd Wyn

WildC.A.T.S Special #1 (1993)

by Travis Charest and Steve Gerber with various

...I suppose Hightower's entitled to some braggin' rights this time. He and that Coda, Sister Artemis, got the drop on us but good. I guess that's the worst part for me, The Grifter, bein' suckered by my old friend, Lonely, into a trap, only to be used as bait to lure the other WildC.A.T.s.

Bring you back to Themiscrya and lead a revolt against me, Andromache, the ruling Majestrix of The Coda!

The most brutal war on the planet-- at the moment-- is the one between Yurgovia and Kasmia in Eastern Europe. The Kasmians are poorly organized, poorly armed-- all but defenseless against the armies of the Yurgovian Baroness Destine.
 

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Movies by Minutes-style coverage of George A. Romero’s horror masterpiece, researched by Diabolu Frank with archival footage throughout. This episode offers a George Romero “autobiography,” a Christine Forrest Romero spotlight, and a look at the music of the film with emphasis on Goblin’s “L’alba Dei Morti Viventi”.
Bonus movie review: Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2.

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ré·su·mé [rez-oo-mey, rez-oo-mey]
noun
1. a summing up; summary.
2. a brief written account of personal, educational, and
professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an
applicant for a job.

In Comic Reader Résumé, I use Mike’s Amazing World of Comics
to travel back through time via his virtual newsstand to the genesis
point of my lifelong collecting of comics. From there, I can offer a
“work history” of my fandom through my active purchasing of (relatively)
new comic books beginning in January of 1982, when my interest in the
medium went from sporadic and unformed to routine on through compulsive
accumulation. To streamline the narrative and keep the subjects at least
remotely contemporaneous, I will not generally be discussing what we
call back issues: books bought long after their publication date.
Sometimes, I will cover a book published on a given month that I picked
up within a year or so that date, and I give myself an especially wide
berth on this aspect in the first couple of “origins” episodes. We’ll
get more rigidly on point as my memories crystallize and my “hobby”
spirals out of control into the defining characteristic of my life
(eventually outpacing squalor and competing neuroses.) It’s part
personal biography, part industry history, and admittedly totally
self-indulgent on my part.

This episode includes Captain America #281 & 283, Avengers #231, U.S. 1 #1, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #11, Batman #359, Spider-Woman #50, DC Comics’ The New Teen Titans in cooperation with The President’s Drug Awareness Campaign #2, Power Man and Iron Fist #193, Alpha Flight #1, All-Star Squadron #24, and The Saga of Crystar, Crystal Warrior #3.

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• February, 1983
• March-May, 1983
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On our music & memories show, co-hosts Joe Fixit, Ill Mac, & Diabolu Frank each select a song to discuss, relating facts about its release, its meaning, and how it relates to them anecdotally.

Tracklist

1. “Evil” from the 2004 album Antics by Interpol
2. “99 Ways to Die” from the 1993 album The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience by Megadeth
3. “El Sapo” from the album Chuy Vega Corridos, vol. 2 by Chuy Vega Y Los Nuevos Cadetes

Artists: Diabolu Frank, Illegal Machine, Mister Fixit
Label: Rolled Spine Podcasts
Format: MP3 Digital Download/Streaming
Country: USA
Released: 10 July 2019
Genre: Post-Punk Revival, Thrash, Corrido

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Agent Codenames: Old Dude; Diabolu Frank
Assignment: Father & Son Spy-Fi Podcast
Mission: Unsorted surveillance of elements from Bond themes, especially unused songs from Thunderball, as well as The Prisoner and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Also, Doris Day?

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