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Origin Story Episode Fourteen
Different distributors in the 1980s means different release dates for comics means that I’m putting this episode out two days before the last one. This time around, I take a look at The Adventures of...
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Martha (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Like Batman v Superman: Dawn...
I was listening to some recent episodes of Trentus Magnus Jabs Reality where he, Jon Wilson, and Rebecca Johnson took an incredibly thorough look at Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. What is...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Presents: 80 Years of DC Comics Episode 12 — Horror
Just in time for Halloween, it’s a look at DC’s horror offerings! I take a look at some classic 1970s horror with stories from Ghosts and Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion (a story by none other than...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 88: Laying Down the Law, Part 1
It’s the first of a two-part look at police story comics of the late 1980s and early 1990s! This time around, I look at the DC Comics four-issue miniseries Underworld by Robert Loren Fleming and Ernie...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 109: JLMay 2020 — The Return of Donna Troy
In 2004, DC Comics released ‘Countdown to Infinite Crisis,” and set in motion a six-month buildup to what would be the most monumental crossover in recent DC history, Infinite Crisis. This May, that...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 121: Titans Two-Fer Part One, The Judas Contract
In 1984, Marv Wolfman and George Perez shocked their fans by revealing that the New Teen Titans’ newest member, Terra, was working with Deathstroke: The Terminator. Then, they finished Terra’s story...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 122: Titans Two-Fer Part Two, Apokolips Now
In 1982, Marvel and DC teamed up to present a story featuring their two hottest properties: The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans. Written by X-scribe Chris Claremont with art by Walt Simonson...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 123: Cardboard Heroes
The Eighties and Nineties were a boom for the baseball card and trading card industry, and since I was a kid, I was right there in the thick of it. Join me as I recount my days collecting baseball...
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9/11 and Popular Culture Part Two
It’s the second episode of a six-part miniseries that examines the books, movies, music, comics, and other popular culture that directly addresses or is about the attacks of September 11, 2001. In...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 129: Continuity, Sagas, and Histories
When you start reading comic books decades into a character or even an entire publisher’s existence, how do you go back and find out all of the stories that got them to that point, especially when...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 140: My Batman Phase
If I can point the true origin of my comic book collecting career to one point in time, and especially one character, it’s the spring of 1990 and the character is Batman. For this episode, I’m going...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 143: JLMay 2023, The Brave and the Bold
It’s JLMay 2023! Join me as I take a look at issue #10 of the 2007 version of DC’s classic team-up series, The Brave and the Bold. The Challengers of the Unknown! Superman! The Silent Knight! Aquaman!...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 152: The Crisis Hangover
Worlds lived. Worlds died. The universe was never the same. But it took a little while for that universe to never be the same, and in this episode, I take a look at the period between December 1985...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 154: Off-Brand Robotech
In 1984, DC Comics published a Robotech miniseries as a tie-in with the Revell model company. But Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, Lynn Minmei, the SDF-1 or anything else we know and love from Robotech was...
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Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 157: Batman: From Death to Dying
In A Death in the Family, Jason Todd died. In A Lonely Place of Dying, we got our first look at Tim Drake. But what happened between? This episode, I take a look at some of the issues in the very...
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Faces (addendum to Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 157)
In my latest podcast episode, I looked at three issues of Batman that came out between A Death in the Family and the Year 3/A Lonely Place of Dying storylines, which are about the death of Jason Todd...
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