Chris and Reggie "Box-Set", Volume 11: The Direct Market

Chris & Reggie "Box-Set", Volume 11
Weird Comics History: The Direct Market

Enjoy our two-part look into how comics got "here".  From the early days of newsstand distribution to how the fandom itself facilitated the secondary market... and how the simple premise of "no returns" turned the entire industry on its ear.

Total Running Time:

2 Hours - 16 Minutes - 24 Seconds

Chris & Reggie "Box-Set", Volume 8 - Charlton Comics

Two episodes still counts as a "box set", right?  Well, it's good enough for us... and if it saves folks from having to hunt them down in our all-too confusing archives, then... all the better!

In these two episodes, we break down the rise... and fall of Charlton Comics.  We discuss the founders, and their chance meeting inside a jail cell... to the "in-house" production model (using a printing press that was once used for cereal boxes... and it shows!), the staffers, the great flood... and whatever happened with those "Action Heroes" we all know and love.

Total Play Time

2 Hours, 35 Minutes, 53 Seconds

Chris & Reggie "Box Set", Volume 7: Exploring the Mysteries of Marvelman/Miracleman

This time around is a very recent "Box-Set"... easily findable on the feed, but our completist nature won't allow us to let it lay.

Total Run Time

2 Hours, 54 Minutes, 41 Seconds

Chris & Reggie "Box-Set", Volume 6: The First Five

For this week's "Box-Set" we're going old-school... compiling the first five "pre-historic" episodes of Weird Comics History... before we even numbered 'em!

It's awkward... and (at least in the first episode) hard to hear at least one of your hosts... but they're still pretty fun!

These episodes are also available on our YouTube... and have been assembled into a Playlist:

Total Run Time

2 Hours, 24 Minutes, 19 Seconds

Weird Comics History, Ep. 29 - Exploring the Mysteries of Miracleman (Marvelman), Part Three

Weird Comics History, Episode 29
Exploring the Mysteries of Miracleman (Marvelman), Part 3

Order in the court!  (Ham and Cheese)

For their final installment of "Exploring the Mysteries of Miracleman", your favorite legal eagles Chris (@acecomics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) don their long robes and powdered wigs and do their darnedest to figure out just who owns Marvelman!

They will discuss the wheelings and dealings of one Spawny fellow... and spend far too much time discussing the characters of Angela, Cogliostro, and Medieval Spawn... but they promise it all (mostly) fits the story.

Overall, it's an hour and change of audio likely to make you even more curious and confused about Marvelman, and just how his story finally "shook out".

Chris and Reggie "Box Set", Volume 3: Crisis on Infinite Earths

Welcome to our third "box set" collection... collecting out Five-Part (very) long-form discussion on one of DC Comics' biggest and grandest events... as well as our Weird Comics History look into the pre-Crisis DC Multiverse!

If you have say... a twelve-hour drive ahead of you, and you're looking for some company... this is the "box set" for you!

Included are Cosmic Treadmill Episodes 50-54 and Weird Comics History, Episode 22

Total Run Time

11 Hours, 18 Minutes, 30 Seconds

If you're interested in seeing every (to our knowledge) pre-Crisis appearance of the Monitor... we collected them, right here!

Weird Comics History ep. 26 - Classic Comic Book Advertisements 2

Greetings, pulpophiles! In this episode, Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) step back into the "between pages" of comic books, known as Classic Comic Book Advertisements, the Return! First, they'll detail the history and innovations of GRIT magazine, despite never having seen a copy. Then, they discuss Joe Orlando and his unforgettable ad for Sea Monkeys, as well as the dark secret behind these "instant" aquatic life forms...and it's not that they aren't monkeys. Finally, the impressionable hosts talk about two-dimensional toy soldiers, the ads that enticed them, and the man who drew two of the most memorable ones, Russ Heath! It's an episode jam-packed with commercialism, and you won't even have to pay C.O.D.

Chris and Reggie "Box Set", Volume 2: Underground Comix

Welcome to our second "Box Set" collection... collecting, our long form discussion on the history and impact of Underground Comix.

Included are Weird Comics History, Episodes 12, 13, 14, & 16.

Total Run Time

5 Hours, 41 Minutes, 51 Seconds

Chris and Reggie "Box Set", Volume 1: The Comics Code Authority

In an attempt to make navigating the show's humble home a bit easier (and quicker!), we've decided to collect our long-form series' into "box set" posts.

For our first "Box Set", we are including our first five-part series... which coincidentally took place over our first five episodes!



If YouTube is more your game, we have assembled our discussion of the Comics Code Authority into a handy-dandy Playlist:

Total Run-Time:

7 Hours, 35 Minutes, 11 Seconds

Weird Comics History #18: The Strange Story of the Sentry

Weird Comics History: Episode 18
The Strange Story of the Sentry

This week, Chris takes Reggie back to Marvel Comics' 21st Century renaissance to look at a "lost" character: the Sentry! A Superman-esque caped hero designed by Golden Age stalwart Artie Rosen in 1961, but unpublished and quietly shelved. After Rosen's passing, character designs were discovered, and it was up to Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee to bring the Sentry--Marvel's first superhero--into the light of day! They examine the Marvel Knights miniseries and discuss future adaptations of the character. Then, Chris and Reggie discuss some sales figures and whether or not the series was successful. Plus: a special secret surprise! Enjoy!

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BREAK CLIP:
Golden Age artist Allen Bellman interviewed at Florida SuperCon 2012

Below you can take a look at all of the supplementary Sentry information, including all of the newsbits from Wizard Magazine! 

ABOVE: The first mention of Artie Rosen.  This appeared at the very end of a letters column in Daredevil (vol.2) #9 (July, 1999)

ABOVE: The underrated Rosen passes away from heart failure on January 14, 2000.  From Wizard Magazine #103 (April, 2000).

ABOVE: The widow-Rosen finds some interesting things packed away... From Wizard Magazine #105 (June, 2000)

 ABOVE: The news is out... from Wizard Magazine #116 (May, 2001)

ABOVE: Stan's Scintillating Sentry Scoop lettercolls from the miniseries.
Below is a depository for Sentry-related research materials for Weird Comics History, Episode 18... click to embiggen.

ABOVE: The first mention of Artie Rosen.  This appeared at the very end of a letters column in Daredevil (vol.2) #9 (July, 1999)

ABOVE: The underrated Rosen passes away from heart failure on January 14, 2000.  From Wizard Magazine #103 (April, 2000).

ABOVE: The widow-Rosen finds some interesting things packed away... From Wizard Magazine #105 (June, 2000)

 ABOVE: The news is out... from Wizard Magazine #116 (May, 2001)

ABOVE: Stan's Scintillating Sentry Scoop lettercolls from the miniseries.

TAGS: comics, comic books, history, Marvel Comics, Stan Lee, Artie Rosen, Paul Jenkins, Jae Lee, Rick Veitch, Joe Quesada, the Sentry, Watchdog, Fantastic Four, Reed Richards, the Hulk, X-Men, Archangel, Angel, Warren Worthington