Elise and Dave take a moment to salute the great Ernie Colón (1931 – 2019) before segueing into conversation with a pair of intriguing interlocutors. On the docket: some behind the scenes dope on the everlovin’ Spider-Buggy, “The Male Feminist Gaze”, My Chemical Romance, Peter Milligan, Herman Melville’s Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, Sean Howe’s Marvel: The Untold Story, Spider-clones on 1970s TV and the too-frequently ignored similarities between Jim Shooter and Otto von Bismarck.  

Thanks for listening everyone – and, if you’re discovering this in 2025 and want to talk about comics while the world evaporates into a fever dream, please email us at [email protected].

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Debbie Harry - "Comic Books"