1699 - Spotlight on SHAZAM! in the Atomic Age

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4.6 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 170 minutes

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The original era of the Original Captain Marvel came to a sad end in 1953... so what DID happen to the Marvel Family? How did they survive the rise of King Kull the Beastman, the baleful influence of the horror genre, and shameless attempts at Cold War/Korean War exploitationism, only to fall victim to a fate far more subtle and insidious, and to vanish into limbo for 20 years? Murd and Chris have some answers in this Spotlight episode covering the comics of the final fling of Fawcett Publications in the Fabulous Fifties (1950-53). (2:50:03)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geekspeak episode 1699.
0:04.4	Spotlight on Shazam in the Atomic Age.
0:13.0	You got it on Wednesday, and it was like about it going to the bumble.
0:18.0	These guys will talk about it, everything the geeks love.
0:20.7	What case the laser beats? A plane's like the seas. There's These guys will talk about it. And everything the geeks love Who takes a laser beat?
0:21.8	The planes like the seas
0:22.9	On everything you read.
0:24.5	And comic, movie, games,
0:26.6	Toy, artists, come.
0:28.7	Comic, speak, come, come, come, come, come, come,
0:30.5	come, come, come, come, come, come, come,
0:32.7	come, come, come, come, geek speak.
0:33.7	Come, come, come, Speak, Comic, Deep. United in the world's mightiest heroes.
0:39.7	This is...
0:41.3	I'm Adam Murdo.
0:43.6	And I'm Chris Everley.
0:49.1	Welcome to the show, folks out there in Radio Land. Here's Adam Murdo, your head lecturer for this last in a series of looks at the adventures of Captain Marvel and his Marvel family in the comics of Fawcett publications in their heyday of the 1940s and 50s. And with me, for the ride on this final installment is adjunct professor and co-leturer Chris Everley.
1:16.6	How are you doing tonight, Chris?
1:18.1	Brother, I'm splendid, especially since I'm doing this with you.
1:20.8	I've been looking forward to this for some time.
1:22.9	And like I said, I'm honored to be your adjutant in this.
1:25.6	Looking forward to it immensely. Oh, your help will be much needed, Chris, as we move forward here into this last
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