Episode 94: “Who knew that The Clapper was more powerful than one of the Mandarin’s rings?”

One ring creates darkness, another turns the lights off. The Mandarin’s rings are soon to be made obsolete by The Clapper.

Stan Lee and Don Heck sent Iron Man back into the dangerous clutches of the Mandarin in June and July of 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 94th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Tales Of Suspense Nos. 55 and 55, featuring the innumerable costume changes of Iron Man, the Mandarin’s questionable skills as a swordsman, the misleading name of the Blacklight Beam, a laughing wolf, a proposal for a crank-powered Iron Man suit and “better luck next time, Mandy.”

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Episode 93: “Baron Zemo has a taste for paste, as well”

Who knew glue would play such a major role in the Marvel Universe?

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby terrorized the Big Apple with Adhesive X in July 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 93rd episode of The Brothers Marvel, in which we discuss Avengers No. 6, featuring the stickiest man in Nazi Germany, Iron Man driving a truck for some reason, one of the most unlikely super villain cameos of all time and the heretofore unknown black ops abilities of Rick Jones and the terrible Teen Brigade.

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Episode 92: “Captain America needs some better friends”

Time for the Avengers to kick some lava ass!

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby threatened the planet with a lava men invasion in May 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 92nd episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Avengers No. 5, featuring Captain America’s teenage chums, the iconic Avengers-copter, Thor wading neck-deep into lava, the cinderization process, Gi-Ant Man’s use of a Gi-Ant Fan, the reappearance of the pest that is the Hulk and why you should never watch Chicken Little.

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Episode 91: “Eventually, the Avengers take over”

The Avengers crash the World’s Greatest Comic Magazine! And argue about who has jurisdiction over the Hulk.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby gave us the titanic clash between the Thing and the Hulk before engineering a Fantastic Four-Avengers team up of sorts in April and May of 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 91st episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Fantastic Four Nos. 25 and 26, featuring the Hulk hitching a ride in a truck, world-renowned scientist Bob (?) Banner, Reed Richards’ unexplained death, the incredibly effective Hulk-defeating methods of the Yancy Street Gang, Johnny Storm’s worthlessness, Johnny Storm’s asbestos pajamas, Captain America fighting (and kind of beating) the Hulk, what the Wasp should have done with Rick Jones’ “gamma pill” and the Thing’s huge, rocky heart.

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Episode 90: “Mysterio deserves this parade!”

Foggy Fishbowl loves a parade!

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced us to the mysterious and absolutely ridiculous-looking Mysterio in June 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 90th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Amazing Spider-Man No. 13, featuring night crimes, Peter Parker’s career as a journophotoist, an endless supply of smoke bombs, a new thing to shout at parades, whether or not Spider-Man would lose a fight to a dolphin and a human-sized, human-handed spider.

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Episode 89: “Monster House, I’ve come to bargain!”

Doctor Strange is a real master of the bargaining arts.

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko gave us a glimpse at how awful 1960s TV was in May 1964, and 54 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 89th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Strange Tales No. 120, featuring fearless and intrepid reporter Allan Stevens, a floating lamp full of whale oil, Doctor Strange’s first two albums — the super fun “Misty Business” and the far more depressing “Misty Prison” — and the twelve moons of Munnapor!

And, yes, Chuckles followed through on his promise to create an Allan Stevens fan page.

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Episode 88: “I am the Crimson Dynamo and I poke thee!”

She’s got red in her ledger … and she also has the super powerful Box That Can Lift An Iron Man.

Stan Lee, Don Rico and Don Heck introduced Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, as Soviet Russia’s latest attempt to destroy Iron Man in April and May of 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 88th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Tales Of Suspense Nos. 52 and 53, featuring the Laser Light Ray Gun, another one of Boris and Natasha’s failed efforts to take down Moose and Squirrel, the patented “Russian poke,” Tony Stark’s dumb mistake of an invention, the Don Knotts security guard and the incompetence of Stansky.

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Episode 87: “Go fetch him, my X-Men! We must bring The Frog to our team!”

Magneto is definitely winning the competition for most hilariously evil lair in the Marvel Universe.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby once again pitted the X-Men against Magneto and his evil mutants in May 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 87th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss X-Men No. 5, featuring Walt Disney’s contributions to the 1964 World’s Fair, how realistic a snow key would be, Magneto’s absolutely incredible asteroid base, one of those classic track-meet riots from the 1960s, a scientifically unlikely but very successful ice tunnel and a continuing suspicion that Professor X is a bad guy.

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Episode 86: “Dead cat and Charlie, here to save the day again”

Are you a member of your local chapter of the Giant Man and Wasp fan club?

Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and Dick Ayers reminded us all of the pernicious Porcupine in March 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 86th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Tales To Astonish No. 53, featuring the convoluted plan of the Porcupine, a bunch of lads who love Giant Man dressed as those who have tried to kill him, the Wasp gleefully visiting a stranger’s car and a discussion over the ineffectiveness of Giant Man versus Ant Man.

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Episode 85: “Iron Man gets bamboozled by some crows”

Iron Man, one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, gets hogtied by two crows.

Stan Lee and Don Heck bombarded Tony Stark with some unbeatable crows in March 1964, and 55 years later, we decided to talk about it.

Click on the player below to listen to the 85th episode of The Brothers Marvel podcast, in which we discuss Tales Of Suspense No. 51, featuring crows getting stolen, crows recognizing a man’s voice, crows understanding a man’s hand motions, crows hogtying Iron Man, crows fooling Iron Man, crows carrying a full-grown man through the air, crows dragging a man to Cuban shores and just so many crows that you’ll never want to hear about crows ever again.

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