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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1547 - Spotlight on the Fantastic Four in the John Byrne Era

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

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

4.3668 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2015

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

Because Jamie D Demanded It! Presenting a detailed look at a period of Fantastic Four history (1979-86) dominated by the creative vision of one of comics' most singular talents, John Byrne! As penciler, writer, inker, and all of the above, Byrne restored lost grandeur to the First Family of the Marvel Universe, giving them new costumes, a new member, new life challenges, and a newly expanded cinematic scope to their adventures; while giving comics posterity six years of memorable stories and THE definitive portrayal of Dr. Doom. Don't miss the CGS treatment of the run that made the Fantastic Four cool again! (3:05:26)

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0:00.0

This is Comic Geekspeak, episode 1547, spotlight on the Fantastic Four in the John Byrne era.

0:11.6

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 every week the geek's love from case the laser beads of playing making but the seas is on everything you read. And comic, movie, day, Ford, artists, come. Come on, come, come, come, come, come, speak. Come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, keep. Come, come, come, keep. Unitediting the world's mightiest heroes.

0:38.1

This is...

0:39.4

I'm Brian Christman.

0:40.4

I'm Shane Kelly.

0:41.3

I'm Adam Murdo.

0:42.1

I'm Chris Eberley.

0:43.2

And I'm Brian Deamer.

0:45.1

And welcome to the show.

0:49.7

Yes, as we continue our spotlight series, this time going back to the Fantastic Four.

0:58.5

As my records indicate here from the CGS episode page, back in February of 2014, we did part one of the Silver Age as well as part two.

1:12.9

That's correct. And then it looks like we stopped with the bronze age last july was the last time we touched on the spotlight

1:18.9

of the ff and then we did the doctor do one right but it's a subsidiary yeah so we're got to

1:24.1

continue on here with i guess we're calling it therne era because it's not necessarily all his work.

1:29.3

No, that's a good point, my friend. To maintain sort of the continuity of the checklist, we are going to pick up with issue 201, which did not involve John Byrne, but those are important stories that should be acknowledged. And then we're going all the way through Marr of Wolfman stuff, Doug Munch stuff, and then into John Byrne.

1:47.1

So that's, we're going from issue 201 to issue 293.

1:50.4

Right.

1:50.7

Now, wait a minute.

1:51.6

I wasn't consulted on that.

1:53.0

This is John Byrne era.

1:54.1

We're starting with issue 232.

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