Checkered Past

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 246:52:56
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Synopsis

From February, 1966 through August, 1967, DC Comics branded all their publications with a checkerboard masthead, lovingly known as "Go-Go Checks". Because, you know, the 60s. With the help of his husband and intrepid friends, Dr. Bobb will examine each of these issues in depth and tell you what you need to know!

Episodes

  • Up-skirt Ultra (Mystery in Space 108)

    13/12/2020 Duration: 41min

    Ultra the Multi-Alien is in a pretty pickle (and that's NOT a euphemism for what's under the mini-skirt wearing giant from space!) Join us for a look at Mystery in Space #108!

  • Women's Intuition, only it's Batman (Detective Comics 352)

    02/12/2020 Duration: 01h21s

    I've got a HUNCH you'll love listening about Batman's strange new super-power of just GUESSING where crimes will occur. PLUS Elongated Man breaks the bank (and a few criminal jaws) in Monte Carlo!

  • Water, Water, Everywhere (Action Comics 338 & 339)

    16/11/2020 Duration: 55min

    Superman - no, not THAT Superman - fights the inter-dimensional criminal mastermind Muto in the far-flung future world of the 30th Century - no, not THAT 30th Century, apparently - all while avoiding his fatal weakness to (checks notes) um....WATER.

  • Is That a City in your Bottle or Are You Just Happy To See Me? (World's Finest 158)

    01/11/2020 Duration: 45min

    Robin and Jimmy discoevr three shrunken cities in a cave in the woods and that's not even the whackiest thing that happens in this issue! Brainiac has a secret brother! Superman is useless in a fight! And RObin doesn't even have sense enough to wear socks when he's hiking!

  • Technically, the Nazi's On Your Shoulder (G.I. Combat 118/Our Army At War 169)

    28/10/2020 Duration: 56min

    In which we discover that Haunted Tank stories would work just as well - better, perhaps - without the haunted part. Also, metaphorically speaking, SGT Rock talks more than a ...well, than something that talks a lot. Join us for tipsy war stories!

  • You Get the Children You Deserve (The Fox and the Crow 98/Sugar and Spike 65)

    20/10/2020 Duration: 56min

    Stanley may have a monster, but the REAL story is Mr. Dover's tireless advocacy against ageism and for teachers' rights! PLUS Sugar and Spike are abandoned by their negligent parents and abducted by sentient crustaceans.

  • If You Can't Beat 'Em.... (Justice League of America 45)

    05/10/2020 Duration: 47min

    The JLA goes up against the Shaggy Man, and man, is he shaggy! Almost as shaggy as...well, the OTHER Shaggy Man. Plus a tentacled moon monster, and Dr. Husband's adventures with acetone!

  • Meta-Metal Mania (Metal Men 20/Brave and the Bold 66)

    28/09/2020 Duration: 01h11min

    Disgruntled scientist? Check. Racist sterotype robotic enemy? Check. Giant novelty birthday cake? Check. The Metal Men as paragons of patriotism? Now that one I didn't see coming. PLUS, Metamorpho ditches his powers for about ten minutes before thinking better of it!

  • Suicide is Painless (Star-Spangled War Stories 127/ Tales of the Unexpected 95)

    21/09/2020 Duration: 58min

    The Suicide Squad - not THAT Suicide Squad - no, no, not THAT one, either - literally drive themselves insane trying to complete a mission while battling a Russian nesting-doll set of prehistoric creatures. Plus the podcast debut of The Green Glob!

  • Dark Rides of the Soul (Flash 162)

    13/09/2020 Duration: 01h04min

    Quick, which would you rather see - A mutated Walt Disney-esque creature destroying his own magical creation - - or videograpgic evidence of a heretofore unknown advanced civilization 100 Million years in Earth's past? YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE. Plus! Classic movies we sort of didn't like! My tale of ambushed on public access tv! And so much more! Join us for Flash #162!

  • Public Enemy Number 4! (Batman 181)

    31/08/2020 Duration: 01h01min

    She's Poison! She's Ivy! But she doesn't seem especially evil or criminal, at least not in this first outing. Yes, listener, it's the very first appearance of Poison Ivy, and boy, does she get Batman revved up! PLUS - lots of chatter about obscure short-lived 70's sitcoms, echo-location, and a little more about our sex lives than you probably wanted to know.

  • SCOOTER IS (Swing With Scooter #1)

    19/08/2020 Duration: 52min

    Scooter Sings! Scooter Swings! Scooter and his creepy friends spend 26 pages chasing each other around town and not respecting boundaries! All this plus some brief visits from old friends on our gala ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE!

  • A Mighty Fortress Is Our Zod (Superman 187)

    02/08/2020 Duration: 01h29min

    An 80-Page Giant all about Superman's Fortress of Solitude! Plus - the eternal sunshine of Jimmy Olsen's freckled mind! Superman's army of misogynistic robots! Lois Lane's backfiring husband trap! Superman kills - TWICE! Also, sorry to trick you into reading this far, but there's no General Zod!

  • I guess we're lucky there are only NINE unknowns (Hawkman #14)

    19/07/2020 Duration: 01h36min

    The Winged Wonder and the Pinioned Princess are back at it, battling through their exhaustion and ennui to (checks notes) absorb the accumulated knowledge of humanity and keep some sacred relics out of the hands of C.A.W. (Criminal Alliance of the World). Just another day in the life of America's hardest-workingv dual-career (or is it quadruple-career) couple!

  • Earth-X Marks the Spot (not THAT Earth-X) (Jimmy Olsen #93)

    23/06/2020 Duration: 55min

    Jimmy stumbles upon Professor Potter's dangeraously unattended dimensional transporter - literally stumbles, as in trips and activates it - and finds himself in a crazy mixed up world where Perry White loves Jimmy as a son! Clark Kent is the Joker! Matadors wear blue capes instead of red! Oh, and Jimmy has super powers and a costume that inexplicably has bat-ears. Perhaps on THIS Earth, you'll listen in!

  • Hard Travelin' Heroes (and hard-drinkin' hosts) (Green Lantern #76)

    13/06/2020 Duration: 52min

    We interrupt our regularly-scheduled show to pay tribute to the late Denny O'Neil (1939-2020) wherein I give Dr. Husband his first taste of Denny, Neil Adams, and the glories of DC's Bronze Age. A balm for our troubled times.

  • She Gets a Husband and I Can't Even Get a Cab (Green Lantern #45)

    04/06/2020 Duration: 54min

    Princess Ramia has a problem, but being queen ain't one of them. Like all well-bred young women of the 1960s, she's nothing til she gets herself a man! Never fear, it's working man stereotype Doiby Dickles to the rescue, along with a Green Lantern or two!

  • Vile Is As Vile Does (Challengers of the Unknown #50)

    27/05/2020 Duration: 49min

    Say, who's that big green fella wreaking havoc throughout the city? Whoever it is, he's got a sporty sleeveless jumpsuit that fits to a tee! Too bad his dress sense didn't filter out to the rest of the criminal marauding community...catch all the action with Challengers of the Unknown #50!

  • A Method To My Moon-Madness (Blackhawk 221)

    10/05/2020 Duration: 52min

    Hendrickson isn't the only one with a secret life...today we disclose not only our least favorite Looney Tunes characters but also my fetishization of people with planets for heads. Not masks, mind you, but actual planets. It's a very specific fetish. Jpoin us for Blackhawk #221!

  • Up and Atom! (The Atom #25)

    27/04/2020 Duration: 01h27s

    The Atom's in a pickle, a Playboy Bunny on one arm and an ionized super-villain on the other! Not to mention his important work against the adversaries of America who are planning to use the very foundation of our capitalist system of government against us! What's a little fella to do? All you have to do is tune in to find out!

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