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Marvel's Cosmic Comics: Star Wars, John Carter, ROM, Micronauts, and Beyond!
Marvel's Cosmic Comics: Star Wars, John Carter, ROM, Micronauts, and Beyond!
Author: Ben Avery
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Using Star Wars as a guideline, this podcast explores, month by month, comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986.
Comics covered include (or will include): Star Wars, Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Logan's Run, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Human Fly, The Man from Atlantis, Marvel Movie Specials, ROM: Spaceknight, Micronauts, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and much much more!
This feed is a sub feed of the Comic Book Time Machine. Each cover date month that is covered here is a longer episode in the regular Comic Book Time Machine feed.
Comics covered include (or will include): Star Wars, Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Logan's Run, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Human Fly, The Man from Atlantis, Marvel Movie Specials, ROM: Spaceknight, Micronauts, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and much much more!
This feed is a sub feed of the Comic Book Time Machine. Each cover date month that is covered here is a longer episode in the regular Comic Book Time Machine feed.
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Ben returns to the world of LOGAN’S RUN with a comic story that is TOTALLY NOT Logan’s Run, but TOTALLY IS Logan’s Run. What do you do when you have a Logan’s Run comic book issue, but don’t have the Logan’s Run license? You strip it of every specific detail …
“Wait. What?” ~ Ben’s exact words when he was looking at comic book soliciations for last month. But The Human Fly is back! It’s a new series! A new continuity! A new creative team! A new publisher! A new millennium! But the same concept: he’s the wildest superhero every . …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. It’s the end of an era. Ben reads the final two issues of John Carter, Warlord of Mars from Marvel Comics, wrapping up another of Marvel’s Cosmic Comic Series. …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. For this episode, Ben reads the FINAL three chapters in the 12-issue epic “Master Assassin of Mars” from JOHN CARTER issues 25-27, cover dated July 1979, August 1979, and …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. For this episode, Ben reads the next three chapters in the 12 issue epic “Master Assassin of Mars” from JOHN CARTER issues 22-24, December 1978, January 1979, and February …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. Ben returns to 1979 to read the toy-line tie-in SHOGUN WARRIORS! Last issue introduced three pilots and one robot . . . but this issue brings two more robots …
(We have moved our websites to a new server, and as a result we lost this post, meaning I had to re-upload it. Please accept our apologies if you had this show up in your feed twice. Thank you!) Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. And we’re beginning the journey to find a lonely plant . . . known as . . . EARTH! So excited! Battlestar Galactica was absolutely the product of a …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. Star Wars continues! Luke faces Vader . . . in a hallucination! Han Solo faces Chewy . . . in a zero-G arena! Leia faces stormtroopers . . . …
Using Star Wars as a guideline, we’re exploring comic books based on licensed properties that Marvel Comics published from 1977 to 1986. The Master Assassin of Mars continues . . . with gladiatorial combat in an arena against a very big lion with a large number of legs. And teeth. But …
The Micronauts move from inner space to yard space as they take on one of the great dangers of the back yard - a lawn mower!
The Human Fly travels to his next stunt location and find some real world issues that need to be taken care of, REAL-LIFE SUPERHERO STYLE!
Godzilla, now man-sized, sneaks through the city . . . until he comes to a face-off with Dum Dum Dugan. A face-off that finally allows Dum Dum and Big-G to come face to face and go mano-a-mano!
Shogun Warriors, a Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe work based on the Mattel toyline that merged a number of Japanese properties into one, gets its origin in this "1st ISSUE COLLECTOR'S ITEM"! And the license seems to be in good hands!
"Deathgame" continues Archie Goodwin's original Star Wars tale taking place on The Wheel, a space casino that puts everyone in danger! And the stakes just keep on rising! In a world where Empire Strikes Back was still only in script form, the Star Wars universe grew here!
The coverage of Marvel’s licensed books from January 1979 ends here as we take a peek at the ads and company promo items from this month and then take a look at the treasury sized edition of Marvel’s adaptation of Battlestar Galactica in Marvel Super Special #8!
The fifth chapter in Chris Claremont's "Master Assassin of Mars" continues here as John Carter fights a war for the very people who are making it so he cannot leave their underground world. But he plans to leave and he's taking Dejah Thoris with him...if only he can rescue her!
Godzilla is shrunk down to the size of a house cat but he's still the king of the monsters! King of the TINY monsters, but king none-the-less.
Bill Mantlo's classic run begins here! A toy line with no story is transformed into an inner-space opera epic starting with this issue: The Micronauts #1!
The theft of a little girl's camera reveals an attempt to sabotage the Human Fly's newest stunt! But what reason do the criminals have to do this? And why is the Fly going through with it? More important: is the story any good?



