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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1379 - Spotlight on The X-Men in the Bronze Age

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

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Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comics, Comic Book, Comic, Arts & Entertainment, Comic Books, Superhero, Graphic Novel, Arts

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2013

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Bronze Age, X-Men - hope you survive the experience! Join us, and CGS lecturer-in-residence Chris Eberle, as we pay homage to one of the most successful comebacks in comics history, recounting the X-Men's rise ('Like a Phoenix...!') from reprint limbo to the heady heights of the Claremont/Byrne/Austin run! With a special in-studio appearance by a genuine, first-printing copy of Giant-Size X-Men #1! (2:09:18)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geeks Speak, episode 1379, Spotlight on the X-Men in the Bronze Age.

0:11.5

You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the ball you love.

0:16.4

These guys will talk about it everything the geeks love from kicks a laser beam ofion like the seas is on everything you read. And comedy, movie, dance, toys, artists, come. Come on, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, deep speak. Come on, come, come, come, come, keep. Come, come, come, keep. United in the world, the brightest heroes. This is... I'm Brian Christman. I'm Adam Murdo. And I'm Chris Eberley. Yes, you are. Come in deep, big. And welcome to the show. And once again, we welcome into the studio, Mr. Chris Eberley.

0:54.9

Honored, gentlemen.

0:55.8

From Wild, Big Comics.

0:56.4

Thank you, brethren.

0:56.9

Thank you.

0:57.6

Thank you.

1:04.7

And again, we are doing another spotlight, this time on the X-Men in the Bronze Age.

1:06.2

One I've been particularly looking forward to.

1:12.3

Yes, again, this is, along with the Avengers, their golden anniversary, their 50-year anniversary.

1:15.8

And we've done an episode of them in the Silver Age.

1:18.2

Now I've got to go on to the Bronze Age.

1:45.2

I like to always put in my disclaimers, just not that we have to, but this is a very important time in the X-Men history to say the least. And this may not be comprehensible to try to get as much as we can. At this point, we don't know if it's going to be one or two parts. So we'll play it by ear. We're expecting to get it in and one. We're going to try to get it in one. It's kind of a short Bronze Age for the X-Men.

1:47.1

Right. It's quality over quantity.

1:47.5

Right.

1:48.3

Well put, Merck.

1:52.6

But these are our thoughts, our experiences on the age.

1:56.5

So once again, Chris has given us an outline.

2:08.3

And just to rehash when we ended the Silver Age, of course, the Silver Age X-Men, new stories ended with, I guess it was issue 66.

2:10.2

That was the last issue with new material.

2:10.8

With new material.

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