1461 - Spotlight on the Fantastic Four in the Silver Age, Part One

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🗓️ 25 February 2014

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Face Front, True Believers! Now begins a year-long exploration of the first family of Marvel Comics: the Fantastic Four! Adjunct professor of Marvel history Chris Eberle, teaching assistant Adam Murdough, and prize pupil Jamie D unite to bring you the reasonably complete lowdown on 'The World's Greatest Comic Magazine' through all the ages of its existence! First up, the first half of the all-important Lee/Kirby run of the Silver Age, including everything from the team's first appearance through the Galactus Trilogy, plus a passel of pedagogical propaganda pertaining to the pulsatin' pre-history of Marvel Comics itself! (2:46:10)

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0:00.0	This is Comickeespeak, episode 1461.
0:06.3	Another sojourn into the Marvel Classroom and Marvel Spotlight featuring The Fantastic Four.
0:14.4	Music I'm Jamie D. I'm Adam Merto. And I'm Chris Everley. And I'm Jamie D.
0:38.7	I'm Adam Murdo, and I'm Chris Everly,
0:41.8	a.k.a. The professor.
0:44.7	You honor me, sir.
0:48.3	All right, I kind of ended up a plighting to fade out.
0:52.9	Enough class. Again, welcome to Glenn. Welcome to, uh, again, welcome to Glenn.
0:55.6	Welcome to Glenn.
0:56.5	Welcome again to another Marvel classroom where we are going to throw the spotlight on the Fantastic Four, starting in the 1960s.
1:06.2	And as I was reading the syllabus, I noticed that, uh, the professor will be featuring pretty much the Marvel
1:12.8	History up, a very brief look at the Marvel History up to the Fantastic Four, what caused
1:18.5	the Fantastic Four to be created by Martin Goodwin and Goodman, I should say, in Marvel. And then we
1:23.5	are going to do the first 50 issues in this first episode and we'll do the
1:28.2	50 to 100 in our next spotlight which
1:31.2	actually we are recording today so this is
1:33.6	going to be we are all full of fantastic
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