1057 - Spotlight on Marvel Comics in the '70s

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4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2011

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It's the height of the Bronze Age for Marvel Comics as we discuss '70s titles (Marvel Team-Up, Conan, Star Wars), characters and teams (Invaders, Punisher, Wolverine, Rom), creators (Gerry Conway, John Byrne, Jim Starlin) and more as we continue Modern Marvel's 50th Anniversary spotlight. (1:43:01)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak, Episode 1057, Spotlight Marvel Comics in the 70s.
0:08.5	How can you not love Hercules, Black Widow, Angel, Ghost, and Iceman as a team?
0:15.4	That team you look at and go, what the F? Who thought that team up?
0:19.2	And who thought that would sell?
0:21.0	But it was, it was goofy, it was fun.
0:24.8	I'm just sorry, how can you not love that series?
0:30.2	Welcome to Comic Geekspeak.
0:32.0	I'm Mike Gallagher.
0:33.1	I'm Jamie D. I'm Adam Murdo.
0:35.3	I'm Peter Rios.
0:38.5	And today we're talking about Marvel Comics in the 1970s.
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