Book of the Month - Dark Phoenix Saga

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🗓️ 30 August 2007

⏱️ 114 minutes

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It's a classic X-Men story, and surprisingly, many people have not read it. Well now's your chance. Listen in as we discuss the story with series editor Jim Salicrup. (1:54:26)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Key Speak, Book of the Month Club number 27, The Dark Phoenix Saga.
0:15.2	Welcome to Comic Key Speak. I'm Brian Deamer.
0:17.3	I'm Matt. I'm Shane Kelly. I'm Brian Christman. I'm Jimmy D. And I'm Peter Rios. And this episode of Comicke Speak is sponsored by Instocktrades.com. If you want to
0:27.7	buy some trade paperback, some hard covers, maybe a little manga, you just go to Instocktrades.com
0:33.2	or you save up to 35% off. If you order $50 or more, you get free shipping. It's really, really easy to do, and everything is packaged very carefully and all that. And you can always get our Book of the Month Club selections at a nice reduced price. So check it out, instock trades.com. And this month we're going to talk about the Dark Phoenix saga from Chris Claremont and
0:58.8	John Byrne.
0:59.4	And if you haven't ever listened to a Book of the Month Club episode before, it will be
1:03.1	spoiled very heavily.
1:04.9	So if you haven't read it, I recommend you turn this off right now because spoiling it is
1:10.7	no fun.
1:13.2	This is from Uncanny X-Men issues 129 and 137, which were covered dated June of, no, January of 80 through September of 80.
1:26.9	So you figure that first issue came out right at the tail end of 1979.
1:33.3	So we're coming on 30 years, 30 year anniversary of this soon.
1:40.0	When did it start?
1:41.4	When was it titled Uncanny X-Men?
1:45.5	That was actually a Stump the Rios question once.
1:47.3	It was 141, was it?
1:48.7	Yeah, it was...
1:49.7	No, that would have been after this.
1:51.2	Well, that's what I was wondering, because all the references in here say X-Men 108, X-Men is X-Men.
1:55.9	But the covers are uncanny.
1:57.5	The covers do...
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