Marvel's Cosmic Comics: Star Wars, John Carter, ROM, Micronauts, and Beyond!

Aug 14 2024 127 ep. 27 mins 1.5k

Marvel's Cosmic Comics: Star Wars, John Carter, ROM, Micronauts, and Beyond! Podcast artwork

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.

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The Final Marvel LOGAN’S RUN Comic: Bizarre Adventures 28 – MCC127

Aug 14 2024 33 mins

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 …

HUMAN FLY #0??? – MCC126

Jul 31 2024 30 mins

“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 . …

JOHN CARTER’S FINAL ISSUES (John Carter, Warlord of Mars 28, Annual 3, & more) – MCC125

Jul 06 2024 44 mins

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. …

“Master Assassin of Mars” Parts 10-12 (John Carter, Warlord of Mars 25, 26, & 27) – MCC124

Jun 08 2024 44 mins

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 …

“Master Assassin of Mars” Parts 7-9 (John Carter, Warlord of Mars 22, 23, & 24) – MCC123/CBTM183

Dec 23 2022 46 mins

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 …

“Warriors Three” (Shogun Warriors #2, March 1979) – MCC122/CBTM180

Apr 07 2022 25 mins

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 …

“Highwire to Heaven” (Re-Upload) (Human Fly #19, March 1979) MCC121/CBTM174

Dec 29 2021 37 mins

(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 …

“Annihilation” (Battlestar Galactica #1) – MCC120/CBTM171

Sep 09 2021 38 mins

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 …

“Shadow of a Dark Lord” (Star Wars #21, March 1979) – MCC119 and CBTM162

Nov 03 2020 49 mins

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 . . . …

“The Lady and the Lion!” (John Carter: Warlord of Mars #21, February 1979) – MCC118 and CBTM152

Feb 17 2020 29 mins

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 …