SEE:  The Fantastic Four get costumes!

SEE:  The Fantastic Four get a headquarters!

SEE:  The Fantastic Four get a mode of transportation!

SEE:  The Fantastic Four get their butts handed to them by a cocky loser with all the powers of Doug Henning!

All this and more in episode 3 of the Fantastic Four from 1962!

What happens when the Earth is invaded by shape shifting aliens known as....Skrulls?  Can the Fantastic Four defeat them even after the aliens have turned the whole world against them?  Issue #1 would suggest the answer is likely no, but they keep publishing the title for another 50 years, so I'm guessing the answer is yes!  Listen to how it happens and find out how cows are involved!

Jason and John are finally back!  It's only been 11 months, and the podcast is different!  Now we're Year One Comics, where we explore the first year of various comics book series.  And what better series to kick us off than the first Marvel superhero comic of the Silver Age, the Fantastic Four!  In their first issue, we meet the team, the Mole Man, and see Reed Richards' brilliance in the form of flare gun technology!  Join us, won't you?

It's the end of the Under Siege storyline AND the end of the Avenging Hour (as we know it)!...

It's the beginning of the Under Siege storyline where the Masters of Evil take over the mansion and we couldn't be happier!

The team battles joins forces with Hellstorm and Hellcat to battle demon horde. Master Pandemonium tags along for their ride through Hell until they venture into Cat People land where Tigra almost murders him. The cat lady and the demon man resolve some of their soul issues and everything is hunky-dory, except that Hank Pym might want to kill himself.

It's a crossover annual extravaganza as BOTH teams (plus, a bunch of former members) join forces to defeat a group of fake Zodiac members and take down the traitor who tried to have them imprisoned for treason!

Graviton, and some useless villains we'll probably never see again, harass the team until Tigra turns back into a female, which confuses everyone iand sends Graviton rocketing off into space on a chunk of planet.

The Avengers have to calm a riot outside the mansion over Namor's inclusion on the team. Moonstone, Absorbing Man, and Titania add to the trouble. Then Wasp, Black Knight, and Paladin face off against Grey Gargoyle, Screaming Mimi, and Yellowjacket. And finally, Alpha Flight assists the team when Namor goes to Atlantis to free his ex-girlfriend form the clutches of Attuma.

OHMYGOSH. THESE TWO ISSUES ARE HORRIBLE. PLEASE DON'T LISTEN. WE WARNED YOU. Sigh...okay. If you insist. The team goes looking for the Thing and finds two horrible villains instead. Then, most of the team goes to a SHIELD base and runs into even worse villains. The end.