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YouTubeTape #9 – The Monster Society of Evil
The Ninth Tape: DC Dave and Doug Adamson play Tape #9, which looks at …
The Monster Society of Evil
With co-host Siskoid
Timestamps:
- 3:18 – Crisis News
- 7:42 – Siskoid
- 36:53 – Promo: Xenozoic Xenophiles
- 37:56 – The Monster Society of Evil
- 1:35:13 – Infinite Earths Spotlight
- 1:43:08 – Promo: Siskoid Cinema
- 1:43:56 – Notes from the Multiverse
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PROMO: Xenozoic Xenophiles
PROMO: Siskoid Cinema
Colorist José Villarrubia on Bluesky
‘Check out the remastered cover art for the new CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS ABSOLUTE EDITION’ by Joe Grunenwald, ComicsBeat.com, September 16, 2025
‘New History of the DC Universe #3’
Music: Achilles
Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Little fact when you have Mr mind in clutch’s to come him down play him episodes of the Charlie McCarthy radio show.
Another great episode this group of villains I’m very familiar with.
Also here’s a random question for you : have either of you ever listened to any old time radio shows like say the blue beetles radio show or the Martian and Lewis radio show. Just to name a few.
(Note Jerry Lewis did have comic insert shout out to certain podcast .)
Old timey radio shows are a complete blank spot for me. Which is a shame, since so much great stuff came from those, especially for current DC properties (Batman, Superman, Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle)…
As far as know captain marvel didn’t have a radio show only Superman and blue beetle and blue beetle wasn’t dc at the time though paradise island was mentioned in an episode. Batman and Robin where guest stars in Superman’s show but as far as never had a show of there own . Black hood and green lama also had radio shows .
A great episode and discussion, especially around Roy Thomas both hating the Crisis and leaning into it in the most insane way. There are 7 All-Star Squadron Crisis Crossover issues. And there are 8 (8!!!) Infinity Inc. Crisis Crossovers. That is crazy!
You can think of all the problems that came out of the immediate aftermath of the Crisis. Things like: Who is/how is Power Girl around? How was the Legion formed?
Of all those continuity bandaids, I think Roy’s were the best. I thought for sure Iron Munro and the new older Fury were great character concepts, ‘plug and play’ versions of E2 SM and E2 WW. And yet, despite my thoughts, they just never really caught on did they? Shame.
That is such an insane number of crossovers, isn’t it? 15 crossovers! I’m glad Roy leaned into it, it’s a shame that we couldn’t have had a different outcome for his books.
I agree with you on the Iron Monroe and fury “plug and play” – its a shame those didn’t take.
Well, I didn’t have Bullseye of all things on my Crisis Bingo card!
Roy was so grumpy about Crisis, he helped fix up Fury’s background, shuffle off the JSA to Ragnarok and kept writing Infinity, Inc. for a couple of years all the way up to issue #53!
Though to be fair, he was more or less continuing to create his own little corner of the post-Crisis universe just with a smidge of nods to everything else.
Mr Mind was very cute, you should invite him back as a regular co-host.
In the feedback, Doug, you mentioned that you got Flash Gordon so perhaps the DC Baxter books did make it to the UK newsagents… but Flash Gordon wasn’t Baxter, it was a New Format book, and they did show up regularly.
I am thoroughly unconvinced that comics became better just because people no longer had to use a machine to cross between Earths. Every publisher’s characters having their own Earth made each world unique and fascinating, after Crisis DC got bogged down with explaining all sorts of things, such as how older stories now happened, and who people were, and things became so confusing. So much lost (Legion history, the real Golden Age, a Crisis on Earth 4!), so little gained.
Siskoid, Kid Eternity wasn’t originally called ‘Christopher Freeman’, in Hit Comics he was referred to only as ‘Kid’ by his grandfather, and then he came back from the dead with amnesia. It seems E Nelson Bridwell decided to link him with Freddy Freeman because both saw their grandfathers killed on boats during the Second World War… although he actually made the grandpas different, one maternal, one paternal. The whole story is in World’s Finest Comics #280. The set-up for the story was the Marvel Family members wondering how come they were always meeting characters from fiction and mythology, with Freddy giving an example from a wartime adventure in London when he met Sherlock Holmes. That was in Captain Marvel Jr #2, a comic discussed by Peter and David on The Earth 2 podcast in July.