The Fantasticast

And So It Begins...

Hello, and welcome to episode 1 of The Fantasticast. Each week, Steve Lacey and Andy Leyland guide you through every issue, guest-appearance and cameo of The Fantastic Four.

This is our special edition of our first episode. The audio is a bit cleaner, we've found some outtakes, there's a special producer's commentary, and Andy now shoots first. We hope you enjoy this episode but, as the commentary points out, the show has come a long way since this first recording. We have a much stronger format, much better quality audio, and we sound much more convincing when we're pretending that we're any kind of authority on the subject matter.

To kick off the Fantasticast, we spend this episode introducing ourselves and answering the important question of why we would want to podcast about the Fantastic Four, before taking a look at the origins of the Marvel Age of Comics, then finally covering Fantastic Four #1.

It's the first step on a road that covers the entire Lee/Kirby era, the Human Torch's adventures in Strange Tales, Marvel Two-In-One, and more. Welcome to The Fantasticast - we hope you survive the X-Men reference!

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The Fantasticast is part of the Flickering Myth Podcast network.

Original artwork by Michael Georgiou. Check out his work at mikedraws.co.uk

Episode cover design by Samuel Savage.

Hello, and welcome to the trailer for the Fantasticast, a new podcast cover the Fantastic Four from the very beginning. The show will go live in January 2012, with the trailer making a splash in December 2011. Please feel free to download and use the trailer in your shows. Let us know if you have done so at [email protected] so that we can return the favour.

The Fantasicast is brought to you by Steve Lacey (World of Superman, 20 Minute Longbox) and Andrew Leyland (Heykids Comics).

Cast List:

Ben Grimm/The Thing: Michael Bailey

Sue Storm/The Invisible Girl: Angela Leyland

Reed Richards/Mr Fantastic: Jon M. Wilson

Johnny Storm/The Human Torch: Micheal Leyland

The Mole Man: Donovan Morgan Grant

Namor, The Sub-Mariner: Joshua Lapin Bertone

Doctor Doom: Charlie Niemeyer

The Puppet Master: Michael Bradley

The Impossible Man From Planet Poppup: Andrew Leyland

The Mad Thinker: Thwipping Boy Chris

The Super Skrull: Thwipping Boy John

Rama-Tut: Thwipping Boy Simon

The Hulk: J. David Weder

Baron Hugo: David Walker

Galactus/Narrator: Steve Lacey

Music: The Pursuit of Happiness by The Divine Comedy

All music rights are owned by The Divine Comedy. All rights to characters, logos and concepts are owned by Marvel Comics.