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The Comic Book Attic #67

One year anniversary episode! I ramble on a bit about the experience of one year as a comics podcaster, I go over some of my latest comic finds, and I read listener feedback.  All cover images are copyright their respective copyright holders. (33:12)  Please forgive any volume jumps that may occur in the episode.

The Comic Book Attic now has a forum!  I'm not forum savvy yet, so bear with me as I get it going.

Direct download: The_Comic_Book_Attic_67.mp3
Category:The Comic Book Attic -- posted at: 10:31am EDT

come up to the attic... Indeed!  The attic...The Comic Book Attic...
(From Superboy #189.)
Category:blog -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

some of my favorite comics 12 Giant-Size Defenders #4.  I believe this was a flea market find when I was young.  This comic is not only cool for me because I like the Squadron Sinister/Supreme characters that appeared in the main story, but it's cool for me because of the type of tales that made up the rest of the book.  My young self was thrilled to see the classic Ditko Doctor Strange reprint story that ended the book.  My young self was even more ecstatic to discover the early 1940s Sub-Mariner reprint from Human Torch comics that appeared in the middle of the issue.  A nice issue with a mix of the 40s, 60s, and 70s.
Category:favorite comics -- posted at: 7:46pm EDT

some of my favorite comics 11 Thor #387.  This was one of the first 2 or 3 issues of Thor I ever owned.  The insane struggle of Thor vs. the Celestial began here and continued over the next two issues.  This story provided an exciting, action-filled jolt to my young imagination.  I bought this comic off the spinner rack of a local drug store-- the same drug store that supplied me with many of my first comics.  Ron Frenz's art on Thor is wonderful.  Frenz is one of three artists that I consider Thor's great artists (the other two being Kirby and Simonson).
Category:favorite comics -- posted at: 7:33pm EDT

The Comic Book Attic #66

Mighty Crusaders Redux!  This episode, I review The Mighty Crusaders: Origin of a Super Team trade.  Recommendations.  All cover images are copyright their respective copyright holders.  (29:02)
Links:
Geek Brunch
Comic Timing
Kryptographik

Direct download: The_Comic_Book_Attic_66.mp3
Category:The Comic Book Attic -- posted at: 6:12pm EDT

The Comic Book Attic #-1

In this special -1 episode, I play (in its entirety) the alternate version of episode one that's available elsewhere on the internet.  Also, I play my segment from Comics Podcast Crossover 14, and I play a song.  All cover images are copyright their respective copyright holders. (42:10)

Direct download: The_Comic_Book_Attic_negative1.mp3
Category:The Comic Book Attic -- posted at: 3:16pm EDT

Just a quick note: July's count of comics read was 85.  Here's the last few:
82. Countdown #40 (2007)
83. George Foster (giveaway) (1982)
84. The Legion of Super-Heroes #307 (1983)
85. Batman #421 (1988)

And the first read of August:
1. Countdown #39 (2007)

Category:blog -- posted at: 8:06pm EDT

The Comic Book Attic #65

This episode: JJ guests long enough to talk about recent back issue buys with me, I review Ms. Marvel (1978) #19, and I go over listener feedback.  (27:04)  All cover images are copyright their respective copyright holders. 
The Comic Book Attic is now a member of The League of Comic Book Podcasts.

Direct download: The_Comic_Book_Attic_65.mp3
Category:The Comic Book Attic -- posted at: 11:37pm EDT

As long time listeners may know, before I actually began posting this podcast years ago on libsyn, I recorded 20something episodes of material.  These unposted episodes were cannibalized into "lost episodes" and "lost episode segments" for the current podcast.  Otherwise, these unposted "practice" episodes were never heard... except one: the first episode. 
I actually recorded the first episode (I believe) three times, with the 3rd time being the official libsyn-posted first episode.  This 3rd recording actually used 2/3 of the recording from the 2nd try because the 2nd try had been good-- it just needed updated and polished for libsyn.
Longer story short, I had originally intended to post the podcast with Our Media/ the Internet Archive, and I had tried to upload the 2nd try of episode one.  As far as I could tell, the process was too difficult, and I didn't think it worked, so I abandoned Our Media and the 2nd try of the first episode. 
Recently, I found that the old 2nd try of my first episode did indeed post to Our Media, and it's been there all along.  Several people even downloaded it.  So, I have what amounts to an alternate take of episode one out there on the net.
If you'd like to hear the alternate take of episode one, here's the link: http://www.ourmedia.org/node/307135
If you don't care to go to the site, I plan to include this alternate take in its entirety in my -1 episode.  Normally, I wouldn't try to include previous takes of shows, but since this one is actually out there and available, I want to collect it as a rarity here. 
If you've heard the official episode one on this site, then you will recognize much of the same material, but with a different introduction segment and no edits or splices that were used to integrate the material later on.  Seeing as how the show's 1st anniversary is coming up, this find is appropriate...

More July reads:
72. Countdown #42 (2007)
73. Countdown #41 (2007)
74. Blade: Nightstalking (DVD promo) (2005)
75. Thor #1 (2007)
76. The New Avengers/Transformers #1 (2007)
77. Justice Society of America #7 (2007)
78. Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13 (2007)
79. All Flash #1 (2007)
80. The Brave and the Bold #5 (2007)
81. Ms. Marvel #19 (1978)

Category:blog -- posted at: 9:37pm EDT

The Comic Book Attic #64

In this episode:  Comic-buying adventures.  A short movie tale.  A feature on Dell's Four Color series. (33:40) All cover images are copyright their respective copyright holders.  (Speaking of cover images, do you notice anything subversive about the rocketship in the background of the cover accompanying this episode?)

Link to a site about Marvel reprints: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~alee/reprints.html

Direct download: The_Comic_Book_Attic_64.mp3
Category:The Comic Book Attic -- posted at: 2:05am EDT