Tom versus the Secret Society of Supervillains, number one, or I'm going to get really sick of saying that title.

Welcome back for the May, June 1976 issue featuring a cover by Ernie Chan.

Our story today is attend or die, which might be a great new subtitle for this podcast.

Attended or die? Bad news is you're all going to die anyway. Written by Jerry Conway,

penciled by Pablo Marcos, inked by Robert Smith. I'm just going to say it's the guy from

the cure. Email me if I'm wrong.

Edited by Jared Conway. And you might be saying, Tom, you're back. Are you going to do this

regularly? I have been doing it regularly. It's just once a year. I might do this more often,

you know, like once a month, once a week, just in your head, set an expectation for how often

you think you're going to hear me.

And know that I will disappoint you.

I will not do it as often as you think.

But that's important.

That's life.

Life is how you react to disappointment.

So I'm going to be your podcast father and I'm going to disappoint you.

And it's up to you to overcome that. So this is more than a show

about comic books. This is about your emotional health as well. That's always been my goal.

The other goal? Talk about the Secret Society of Supervillains. Why this book, Tom, I'm glad you asked

me, me, because it's a hot mess, but I love it. And it's a hot mess because it has a

bunch of writers working on it, has a bunch of different villains on it that were at this time

sort of forgotten. And the book just kind of goes in all these weird directions, which we're

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