Checkered Past

Doctors Bobb and Husband discuss juvenile delinquency, what the things inside bells are called, PLUS a new radio drama by the Girls' Young Romance True Love Story Players!

Dr. Husband is back to talk about eyebrow shaving, evil pot-bellied bat-winged alcoholics, and everyone's favorite hero-and-villain-in-one, Eclipso!

Work Friend Chuck and the Work Friend Chuck Family return to discuss what may be our trippiest comic yet, Superboy 127. A sort-of backdoor pilot for Lana Lang, Insect Queen, and the introduction and last appearance of sullen teen Bee-Boy!

Work Friend Chuck and the Work Friend Chuck Family - Work Friend Chuck Jr., Mary Work Friend Chuck, and Kid Work Friend Chuck - stop by to discuss Teen Titans (Volume 1) number 2!

Dammit stops by to talk about girls, Elvis Presley, and mansplaining!

This week, we discuss space landlines, BJ and the Bear, and arguably the strangest hero of the Silver Age, Ultra the Multi-Alien!

This Memorial Day, we pause to remember all the Revolutionary War Heroes who defended our frontier from the Frankenstein Monster, Hessian scientists, and Mexican wrestlers. Heroes like Tomahawk and his Rip-Roarin' Rangers!

Dial D for Drs. Bobb and Husband to discuss muscular little people, Melania Trump, Dial H for Hero and Martian Manhunter!

Work Friend Chuck re-joins us to talk about Sea Devils #28, featuring Man-Fish, Captain X, and something called a "Manosaur".

Work Friend Chuck joins us to discuss Aquaman #26! Cover date March/April 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Nick Cardy Edited by George Kashdan Featuring From O.G.R.E. With Hate! Writer Bob Haney, Art Nick Cardy

Green Lantern 43 Cover date March 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artists: Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson Edited by Julius Schwartz Featuring The Catastrophic Crimes of Major Disaster! Writer Gardner Fox, Artists Gil Kane and Sid Greene

This week! Flash 159 Cover date March 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella Edited by Julius Schwartz Featuring The Flash’s Final Fling! Writer Gardner Fox, Artists Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella And Big Blast in Rocket City Writer John Broome, Artists Carmine Infantino and Joe Giella

This week! Special guest Jen George joins us to talk Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lois Lane! Featuring “The Satanic Schemes of S.K.U.L.!” and “The Prisoner of S.K.U.L.” Writer Leo Dorfman, artist Kurt Schaffenberger, from Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #s 63 & 64

This week! Metamorpho 5 Cover date March/April 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Joe Orlando & Charles Paris Edited by George Kashdan Featuring “Will the Real Metamorpho Please Stand Up!” Writer Bob Haney, Artist Joe Orlando & Charles Paris AND! All-American Men of War 114 Cover date March/April 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Joe Kubert Edited by Robert Kanigher Featuring “The Ace Who Died Twice” starring Steve Savage, Balloon Buster Performed for you by the Our All-American Fighting Men of War at War Players Sound effects courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Detective Comics 348 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Joe Kubert and Ira Schnapp Edited by Julius Schwartz “Birdmaster of Bedlam!” Writer Robert Kanigher, Artist Sheldon Moldoff and Joe Giella in which Batman and his Buddy battle a be-turbaned birdbrain! When a plane carrying Miss USA crash lands after it is attacked by wild birds (killing her in the process), Batman and Robin soon become aware of a sinister plot by a criminal known as the Birdmaster who plans to hold the world ransom by sending out armies of trained birds to attack any planes in the sky. Traveling to the Birdmaster's castle base, the dynamic duo battle the Birdmaster and his minions, forcing the Birdmaster to flee. In a stroke of irony, Birdmaster escapes in a plane that's attacked by his own birds, forcing a crash land and causing the criminal's death. “My Wife, the Witch!” Writer Gardner Fox, artist Carmine Infantino & Sid Greene in which the stretchable sleuth and his sexy sidekick sidle up to Salem

  This week! Our Fighting Forces 98 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Irv Novick Edited by Robert Kanigher “Death Wore a Grin” Writer Robert Kanigher, Artist Irv Novick in which the Fightin’ Devil Dog puts a strangulatin’ shutdown on a sinewy Sumo fighter “Breakthrough in Reverse” art by Jack Abel In which some soldiers fight – um, Russians, I guess? – to try and get a 3-day leave in Tokyo AND! Girls’ Love Stories 117 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Tony Abruzzo Edited by Jack Miller Featuring “Twice Lost” Performed for you by the Girls’ Young Romance True Love Story Players Sound effects courtesy of http://www.freesfx.co.uk

Poor Hate-Face. And Leeta 87. Oh, and Triplicate Girl.

Misogyny reigns this week as we explore Brave and Bold #64 and Metal Men #18. Sorry, women, for everything ever! 

Are ya ready? Are ya with it? This week, Dr. Bobb and Dr. Husband discuss the psychological traume of Superman, and the dickishness of Superboy, from Action Comics #333!