The Flash #266 (1978)

We tackle The Flash in this week’s episode as Barry faces the challenge of a 100% fully functioning Heat Wave. Heat Man here has to overcome his fear of the cold by having his insane therapist throw buckets of ice at him. This plan to defeat The Flash comes to include the desecration of a frozen corpse and the permanent maiming of house servants via furious body shaking. Thankfully, Barry is a maniac so he obliges.

There’s also a Kid Flash back-up where Wally loses his speed powers to a desperate thief only to get electrocute said thief and get his powers back. Wally also may end up having some nooner. 

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Marvel Team-Up #113 (1982)

This week, we start off 2022 with Spider-Man and Quasar having a contentious team-up to defeat the ghost of the Lightmaster. Spidey get his sense working and skips out on graduate class yet again, raising the concern of his wanton disregard for educational funding. Also, Quasar walks around with business cards like he’s Patrick Bateman and conjures up phallic drilling objects to impress college co-eds.

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Adventure Comics #450 (1977)

In our last book of the year, we take a look at something from Aquaman’s ADVENTURE COMICS run where a crippling tragedy DIDN’T happen. Here, Arthur takes on the Weather Wizard, who has stolen a secret government sex toy that will help him defeat The Flash. A bunch of nonsense happens in the Bermuda Triangle and we ultimately conclude that an octopus makes a terrible babysitter. 

We also have a short back-up story with Martian Manhunter avenging the death of his muppet friend. Apparently, the murderer was an Earth human and J’onn runs afoul of Supergirl, who fights him off in various sexy poses. This is a surprisingly erotic book.

Also, heads up on slight THE MATRIX: RESURRECTIONS spoilers.

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Marvel Holiday Special (1991)

Happy holidays everyone! In the spirit of the season, we are taking a look at Marvel’s — apparently — first-ever holiday special. It’s a collection of short, relatively wholesome stories but there’s some insanity in here as well. Like Santa being a mutant. Or Captain America finding out Bucky has an estranged sister. Or the Blob having a fetish for department store mannequins. Bet you didn’t see that one coming.

Also, SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME spoilers exist within....take note

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Metal Men [vol 2] #1 (1993)

After a period of semi-obscurity, the Metal Men are BACK with a new mini-series that was certainly intended to bring about a new ongoing but ultimately didn’t. Probably had to do with Doc Magnus’s new grumpy 90s attitude and affinity for big modern laser guns. But hey, at least the United States got to make Australia jealous by housing a meteor AND playing host to Superman’s death. WE’RE NUMBER ONE!

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Avengers #144 (1976)

Sending good vibes to mighty George Perez as we discuss one of his Avengers books from the 70s.

Here, the Avengers and Patsy Walker are farting around in Roxxon/Brand, jumping on missiles and what not. Cap and Iron Man come across The Cat costume just hanging out and are like, “hey Patsy - wear this.” Patsy then unleashes a mighty stream of shinfo before agreeing to becoming Hellcat. Also, some old people call the police.

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Batman #389 (1985)

Batman’s dealing with a bunch of crises as not only is the world falling apart with its red skies and infinite earths but Catwoman’s back in town and she might be killing dudes with shoes. Ever so graceful with the ladies, Batman basically negs Catwoman and leaves her crying but not before showing her a stalactite (stalagmite?) that looks like a cat. Also, Jason Todd thinks Nocturna is his mom.

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Doc Samson #1 (1996)

Doc Samson is Hulk’s psychiatrist buddy who seemingly only has clients that have green hair. He travels to NYC to help figure out a gamma-radiated serial killer while simultaneously costing the city thousands in tax dollars spent on airfare. The Hulk also stops by to give Doc a Hanukkah gift.

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Teen Titans #46 (1977)

Just a heads up — there are significant ETERNALS movie spoilers in the first half of the show.

The Teen Titans are tasked with figuring out the Fiddler in this issue, who may have inspired Charlie Daniels to write “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Fiddler’s here messing with a concert for the youths, unleashing bees and rats everywhere. To help with the case, the Titans bring on the Joker’s Daughter for a trial period because she has lip-shooting projectiles and knows funny bone MMA as well as Mal Duncan and his gimmicked shofar.

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Eternals [vol 5] #1 (2021)

So this is a pretty big deal, not because there’s an ETERNALS movie coming out this week but its probably the first time in SEVEN YEARS of this podcast that Shawn has taken notes on the comic he’s reading fo the show. Its called growth.

Anyhow, the Eternals are a race of super-powered guys and gals put on Earth by mad space scientists and left alone with malevolent Mogwais for…reasons?!? Iron Man shows up to get Sersi’s number and Zuras the Prime Eternal gets Iron Clawed to death, presumably by Kevin Von Erich since he’s the only one of them still alive.

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