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This Week in Marvel

Reading Club: Marvel Comics (1939) #1

This Week in Marvel

Marvel

Arts, Tv & Film

4.2982 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ryan is joined by Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski to celebrate Marvel’s 80th anniversary by discussing "Marvel Comics" #1 (1939) and the start of Marvel Comics. Read along on Marvel Unlimited to see the first appearance of the Human Torch, Namor the ... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Hello Marvel, Welcome to a special bonus this week in Marvel. I'm Ryan aka Agent M and I am joined by

0:25.7

CB Subolsky editor-in-chief. Yeah and so this is our first this week in Marvel Unlimited Reading Club for 2019. It's the first

0:35.0

what we're gonna do the whole year long. CBU and I are gonna come back every

0:39.3

month to celebrate Marvel's 80th anniversary. Yeah, it's going to be amazing.

0:42.8

There's so much good stuff we have to talk about for the eight decades

0:45.5

worth of amazing Marvel product, and I can't wait to come back

0:48.7

and keep these Marvel lights entertained.

0:50.4

Yeah, and so every month we're looking at a different decade. I don't know what's happening at the end of the year. My math doesn't work that way. We'll get there. We'll figure it out come September, but for the next couple of months we're going to pick pick a decade pick a selection of books and go through it

1:05.5

Fortunately to start us off in a very hectic January we only have one title

1:09.7

We begin where it all began. That's right.

1:13.0

You're a natural with Marvel Comics Number One.

1:16.0

And so going further, we'll let you guys know about what books were picking,

1:20.0

what we're doing, put on social media,

1:21.0

talk about it in the regular episodes and you can

1:23.6

always follow along with hashtag Twim URC it's t w I m you are c send your thoughts and

1:29.6

your questions we have some that we're gonna read a little bit later but. But yeah, like you said, this is the beginning.

1:33.4

Have you ever read this issue before?

1:34.7

I had read it before, but reading it over the weekend.

1:37.7

It was quite an eye-opening experience because I forgot some of the ins and outs

1:41.7

and the way that comics were made and stories were told back in that day.

1:45.1

Yeah, I had read parts of it. I never read the whole thing previous to this and there was one

1:50.8

piece I wanted to note because some versions of this book have October listed on the cover

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