Marvel Versus Marvel

This week we head back into the archives to dig into the history of the comic book superteam and find out how the Avengers were created! From DC Comics putting together The Flash, Green Lantern, and their other heroes and creating the Justice Society Of America, to Marvel borrowing the concept and creating Captain America’s All Winners Squad during World War II. We’ll chart the debut of the Justice League and the Fantastic Four, the rise of Marvel Comics, and how that all led to the creation of The Avengers! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Strap in for a mega episode as Rob and Will deep-dive into the 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home! It’s the biggest Marvel movie since Avengers Endgame, so we leave no stone unturned in this huge episode! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the divorce between Marvel & Sony and how they got back into bed, and what it took to unite 3 generations of Spider-Men and their villains! We’ll take you behind the page on ONE MORE DAY the comic book story that inspired this movie and has become the most controversial and hated Spider-Man story of all time! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pulling it apart scene-by-scene to bring you tons of history and trivia! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Strap in for a mega episode as Rob and Will deep-dive into the 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home! It’s the biggest Marvel movie since Avengers Endgame, so we leave no stone unturned in this huge episode! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the divorce between Marvel & Sony and how they got back into bed, and what it took to unite 3 generations of Spider-Men and their villains! We’ll take you behind the page on ONE MORE DAY the comic book story that inspired this movie and has become the most controversial and hated Spider-Man story of all time! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pulling it apart scene-by-scene to bring you tons of history and trivia! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back to 2005 to go behind the scenes on the Elektra movie, and find out how it became the WORST Fox Marvel offering! We’ll explore the terrible box office performance, the terrible movie reviews, the major stars who didn’t want to make the movie at all, the Daredevil appearance that was CUT from the movie(!), and we’ll debate whether this movie deserves the 11% it has on Rotten Tomatoes! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Kicking off 2026 with a truly epic edition of MVM - a special look at how Star Wars, the movie that saved Marvel Comics! We bring you the incredible Hollywood story of how George Lucas and his team poured blood, sweat, and tears into making the first sci-fi blockbuster, and how it changed cinema forever! Then we'll take you behind-the-page to look at the close relationship between George Lucas and comic books, the financial quicksand Marvel Comics was drowning in in the Seventies, how Marvel became the very first people to ever tell the Star Wars story, and how Star Wars saved the company! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pull it apart scene by scene to bring you all our reactions, plus tons of wild trivia, and compare the Star Wars movie to the Marvel Star Wars Comics! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Kicking off 2026 with a truly epic edition of MVM - a special look at how Star Wars, the movie that saved Marvel Comics! We bring you the incredible Hollywood story of how George Lucas and his team poured blood, sweat, and tears into making the first sci-fi blockbuster, and how it changed cinema forever! Then we'll take you behind-the-page to look at the close relationship between George Lucas and comic books, the financial quicksand Marvel Comics was drowning in in the Seventies, how Marvel became the very first people to ever tell the Star Wars story, and how Star Wars saved the company! Then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, pull it apart scene by scene to bring you all our reactions, plus tons of wild trivia, and compare the Star Wars movie to the Marvel Star Wars Comics! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back to a time before Marvel Comics, before Superman and Batman, to a world before superheroes, and bring you a history of The Shadow! Before Superman exploded onto the pages of Action Comics, the world of action-adventure was a very different place, full of detectives, gangsters, Science Fiction and the supernatural - the world of Pulp Fiction! In a world of Tarzan, Zorro and Conan The Barbarian, The Shadow emerged completely by accident and ended up becoming the world’s first superhero! We’ll track the tale from pulp magazines to radio adventures to cliffhanger movie serials and beyond! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Batman Returns is the movie that nearly SUNK superhero cinema, so this Christmas season we're heading back to 1992 for another DC Edition. A crucial moment that effected both DC and Marvel movies in the years and decades to come! The first Batman movie was a smash-hit success both on and off the screens, but things were very different in 1992 with the sequel! In part one we'll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of the movie, the inflating budget, why this movie became highly controversial, the backlash and BOYCOTTS from parents and teacher groups, and how the controversy damaged box office and toy sales! Plus, we'll take you behind-the-page on what kind of impact the 1989 movie had on the Batman comics, and what happened in the early 90's to make Batman and Robin one of the hottest commodities in the business! Then we deep-dive Batman Returns, pull it apart scene-by-scene for our thoughts and reactions, and bring you tons of comic book connections, and DC history and trivia behind Batman, Robin, the Penguin, and Catwoman! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Batman Returns is the movie that nearly SUNK superhero cinema, so this Christmas season we're heading back to 1992 for another DC Edition. A crucial moment that effected both DC and Marvel movies in the years and decades to come! The first Batman movie was a smash-hit success both on and off the screens, but things were very different in 1992 with the sequel! In part one we'll take you behind-the-scenes on the making of the movie, the inflating budget, why this movie became highly controversial, the backlash and BOYCOTTS from parents and teacher groups, and how the controversy damaged box office and toy sales! Plus, we'll take you behind-the-page on what kind of impact the 1989 movie had on the Batman comics, and what happened in the early 90's to make Batman and Robin one of the hottest commodities in the business! Then we deep-dive Batman Returns, pull it apart scene-by-scene for our thoughts and reactions, and bring you tons of comic book connections, and DC history and trivia behind Batman, Robin, the Penguin, and Catwoman! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back into the archives to look at a Marvel Movie That Never Happened - Gambit! Made famous by the Deadpool & Wolverine movie, the Gambit movie spent over 10 years in development! We’ll take a look at all the actors that were considered for the role, and how Channing Tatum became the frontrunner, the different directors and producers involved, all the attempts to get the Gambit movie made, and what went wrong! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel   marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Join us for a deep-dive into Marvel’s ORIGINAL Iron Man movie, the 2007 animated feature film “Invincible Iron Man”! The year before the MCU began, the year before Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau, and Kevin Feige brought Tony Stark to the big screen, Marvel partnered up with Lionsgate to create the first and original Iron Man movie - a feature length animated film on DVD. We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the Marvel / Lionsgate deal, the talent of the writers and animators involved, the different animation styles, and everything it took to make this movie. We'll also go behind-the-page on Iron Man in the 2000's, how a series of terrible creative decisions at Marvel were ruining the character, and what it took to make the character relevant again in time for the birth of the MCU! And then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, to explore what it got right, what it got VERY wrong, all the things it changed about Iron Man, and all the differences with the live-action movie that would come out the following year! Plus there's tons of history and trivia about Tony Stark's childhood, his different armours, the Mandarin, the Jade Dragon, Fin Fang Foom, and so much more! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Join us for a deep-dive into Marvel’s ORIGINAL Iron Man movie, the 2007 animated feature film “Invincible Iron Man”! The year before the MCU began, the year before Robert Downey Jr, Jon Favreau, and Kevin Feige brought Tony Stark to the big screen, Marvel partnered up with Lionsgate to create the first and original Iron Man movie - a feature length animated film on DVD. We’ll take you behind-the-scenes on the Marvel / Lionsgate deal, the talent of the writers and animators involved, the different animation styles, and everything it took to make this movie. We'll also go behind-the-page on Iron Man in the 2000's, how a series of terrible creative decisions at Marvel were ruining the character, and what it took to make the character relevant again in time for the birth of the MCU! And then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself, to explore what it got right, what it got VERY wrong, all the things it changed about Iron Man, and all the differences with the live-action movie that would come out the following year! Plus there's tons of history and trivia about Tony Stark's childhood, his different armours, the Mandarin, the Jade Dragon, Fin Fang Foom, and so much more! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

Before Tim Burton’s Batman 1989 was released, Marvel Comics got into the Action Movie business with Dolph Lundgren and The Punisher! Join Rob and Will as they explore the most violent Marvel Movie ever made! We’ll take you behind-the-scenes to learn about the 80’s Action Movie, and the impact made by Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren! We’ll examine the production of this film, why it was BANNED from several countries, the financial problems that hit the studio, and why it never reached cinema screens in America! Why did this movie sit on a shelf for TWO YEARS before getting any kind of release?! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel For information about Jérémie Damoiseau and his book “Punisher ‘89: The Untold Story” visit https://linktr.ee/punisher_book marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

To tell the full story of Marvel, this week we head back to 1996 to take a deep-dive into the world’s first superhero - The Phantom! In this episode we’ll take you behind-the-page to a time before Superman, before Batman, to discover the CREATION OF THE SUPERHERO! We’ll explore the creation of the first ever superhero costume, the invention of the first ever superhero mask, and how these designs influenced every single superhero that followed, and all the elements that were heavily ripped off by Batman a few years later! We’ll also take you behind-the-scenes on the 1996 Phantom movie, find out the cinematic history of The Ghost Who Walks, and why the movie BOMBED at the box office! We’ll explore the Phantom’s HUGE popularity all around the world, including his very own theme park(!), and then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself and bring you the history, trivia and mythology of The Phantom! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

To tell the full story of Marvel, this week we head back to 1996 to take a deep-dive into the world’s first superhero - The Phantom! In this episode we’ll take you behind-the-page to a time before Superman, before Batman, to discover the CREATION OF THE SUPERHERO! We’ll explore the creation of the first ever superhero costume, the invention of the first ever superhero mask, and how these designs influenced every single superhero that followed, and all the elements that were heavily ripped off by Batman a few years later! We’ll also take you behind-the-scenes on the 1996 Phantom movie, find out the cinematic history of The Ghost Who Walks, and why the movie BOMBED at the box office! We’ll explore the Phantom’s HUGE popularity all around the world, including his very own theme park(!), and then we’ll deep-dive the movie itself and bring you the history, trivia and mythology of The Phantom! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back into the archives to bring you the story behind X-Men: Days Of Future Past to find out why it’s the darkest Marvel stories of all time! We’ll take you behind the page on the Golden Age of the X-Men and the incredibly creative partnership between Chris Claremont and John Byrne! We’ll explore how killing off famous characters changed the X-Men, Marvel Comics, and the entire comic book industry itself! And we’ll take a look at the history of dystopian futures, and just how innovative and influential Days Of Future Past ended up being to the sci-fi culture of the 1980s! This clip is taken from our massive episode exploring the animated adaptation of “Days Of Future Past” which you can listen to, in full, below. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6OPnR2S5VTsSlWvtFJYQXX?si=cf81a04d19a84b72 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6rZmS5bqesKosQu1Fd0h1F?si=2T1SmmffRduXfbSf6wJCGQ For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we take a deep-dive into the 2021 MCU movie Eternals, and put in the work of res-assessing Marvel’s BIGGEST failure! A failure at the box office, a failure with movie critics, but does Eternals deserve its bad reputation? We’ll take you behind the scenes on the making of one of the most divisive Marvel Movie, and film that critics did not like! We’ll investigate the box-office takings to find out what went wrong! Plus we’re gonna take you behind the page on the creation of The Eternals themselves and their origins, and then we’ll deep dive the movie scene by scene to bring you TONS of Marvel history and trivia about the Eternals, the Celestials, the origins of earth itself, The Black Knight, Pip The Troll, Starfox, Thanos, and so much more! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we take a deep-dive into the 2021 MCU movie Eternals, and put in the work of res-assessing Marvel’s BIGGEST failure! A failure at the box office, a failure with movie critics, but does Eternals deserve its bad reputation? We’ll take you behind the scenes on the making of one of the most divisive Marvel Movie, and film that critics did not like! We’ll investigate the box-office takings to find out what went wrong! Plus we’re gonna take you behind the page on the creation of The Eternals themselves and their origins, and then we’ll deep dive the movie scene by scene to bring you TONS of Marvel history and trivia about the Eternals, the Celestials, the origins of earth itself, The Black Knight, Pip The Troll, Starfox, Thanos, and so much more! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we head back into the archives to explore the behind-the-scenes story of Captain America: The First Avenger. We’ll explore the unique investment deal that allowed Marvel Studios to launch the MCU, Jon Favreau’s original pitch to make Captain America a COMEDY MOVIE(!), the list of actors who were nearly cast in the title role, Joss Whedon's involvement in the movie, the ties to the imminent Avengers film, the special effects used for Cap’s body transformation, and tons more! This clip is taken from our massive episode covering the entire movie “Captain America: First Avenger - Remastered” For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk

This week we dive into a special Marvel Halloween movie from 2016 - Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell! We’ll explore how Marvel and Disney made this Halloween monster movie, the amazing Marvel talents involved in the production, and we’ll explore whether the Hulk is the most BANKABLE star of the home video market! We’ll take you into the history of Marvel Monsters, from horror comics of the 50’s, to the monsters of Atlas Comics, the proto-Marvel Age, through to the Bronze Age revival of the undead! Plus, we’ll take a deep-dive into the movie itself, HULK: WHERE MONSTERS DWELL, we’ll pull it apart scene-by-scene and give you TONS of history and trivia about Marvel zombies, vampires, and werewolves, SHIELD’s history with the supernatural, the omnipotent being that is Nightmare, what happens when the Hulk loses his mind, and the many magnificent Marvel monsters in this movie! For awesome bonus episodes visit https://www.patreon.com/marvelversusmarvel marvelversusmarvel@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/marvelversusmarvel https://twitter.com/marvelversus https://twitter.com/robhalden https://robhalden.com https://will-preston.co.uk