DJ Comics Cavalcade 73: Daredevil #3
In this edition of The 'Cade, covering Daredevil #3, you'll believe a portly guy in a cape can fly as Daredevil faces off against The Sinister Owl! Plus: man-on-ape action!
Oct 14, 2017•13 min
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DJ Comics Cavalcade 72: House of Mystery #157
In this episode, where we look at House of Mystery #157, Robby Reed ricochets around the place, melts a bridge, and goes blind. (Get your mind out of the gutter!)
Aug 11, 2017•10 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 71: Daredevil #2
In this episode, featuring Daredevil #2, you will believe a blind man can blind like no other blind man before, as Matt Murdoch flies a spacecraft in his battle against Electro! Don't get too excited, it's kinda crap.
Jul 13, 2017•13 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 70: House of Mystery #156
In this episode, in which we cover House of Mystery #156, we're introduced to aspiring mad scientist Robby Reed as he uses an otherdimensional phone dial to become different superheroes, including one that flies around on a trail of superheated gas. The jokes just write themselves sometime.
Jun 23, 2017•9 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 69: Daredevil #1
Not a hoax! Not a dream! Join Thomas Deja as he returns to his exploration of Silver Age comics with the debut of Daredevil - otherwise known as Matt Murdock: Horndog.
May 28, 2017•16 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 68: Adventure into Fear #11
In the second part of our annual Halloween event, covering Adventure into Fear #11, we return to the Everglades for a story of kids playing at magic, demons, bat-dragon-things, and, oh yeah Steve Gerber!
Oct 26, 2012•16 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 67: Phantom Stranger #5
It's time for the DJ Comics Cavalcade Halloween Event! In this episode, covering The Phantom Stranger #5, The Phantom Stranger fights with Tala over the soul of a callous ladies' man, Doc Thirteen bitches and moans, and some hippie teenagers are busted by a sailor for "cooling off!"
Oct 12, 2012•22 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 66: Tales of Suspense #87
In this latest edition of the 'Cade, covering Tales of Suspense #87, Captain America finds himself trapped in an inventory story where he tugs his ear inappropriately and mixes it up with The Master Planner. No, not a disguised Doctor Octopus, but a guy with impressive sideburns who just won't shut up!
Jun 22, 2012•19 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 65: Teen Titans #7
After a hiatus, the 'Cade is back with Teen Titans #7, and Tom Deja is bringing one of his favorite denizens of Planet Haney with him! Come join him as the Teen Titans join forces with that forgotten pop idol Holly Hip to foil the supervillainous smuggler known as The Mad Mod: the villain even the Bronze Age couldn't kill!
Apr 20, 2012•21 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 64: Adventure into Fear #10
In the second of our Halloween-themed episodes, covering Adventure into Fear #10, the Man-Thing gets his own series and celebrates by going all Dr. Phil on a redneck couple with baby problems.
Oct 28, 2011•13 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 63: Phantom Stranger #4
In the Phantom Stranger section of our Annual Cavalcade Spook Special, Robert Kanigher and Neal Adams collaborate on Phantom Stranger #4 to make our hero into a kicker of much mystical ass when his nemesis Tala makes her debut. Oh, and the Stranger feels the need to save four really stupid teenagers in spite of their idiocy. All this, plus Doc Thirteen gets glasses but remains an asshole.
Oct 14, 2011•21 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 62: Tales of Suspense #86
What do you do when you're Jack Kirby and you're bored? Join us this episode as we find out in Tales of Suspense #86, containing more wacky Kirbytech than you can ever imagine. Plus, Cap counsels someone with battle fatigue, and a solar-powered flamethrower!
Sep 30, 2011•12 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 61: Teen Titans #6
In Teen Titans #6, see Beast Boy try to join the Teen Titans by, well, basically being an ass and running off to join the circus. No, seriously. Plus, Charlie Neimeyer of The Superman in the Bronze Age podcast talks about Carol Ferris, and Aqualad and Kid Flash inspire slash fictioners everywhere!
Sep 09, 2011•25 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 60: Tales of Suspense #85
In Tales of Suspense #85, Batroc returns and engages in a long fight scene with Cap, and in the middle of said fight creates one of the coolest pages of comic art ever! Plus, a line of dialog so nonsensical, Tom has to ascribe it to Bob Haney for it to make sense.
Jul 08, 2011•12 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 59: Teen Titans #5
In Teen Titans #5, the Teen Titans do their best to advocate for alternate reform school methods by trying to determine if a former delinquent is an insect-garbed thief. Just go with it. It's Planet Haney, Jake. It's Planet Haney.
Jun 10, 2011•21 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 58: Tales of Suspense #84
In Tales of Suspense #84, we wrap up the Adaptoid storyline, as the villainous android absorbs the powers of the entire Avengers line-up, composed of Goliath, Hawkeye, and The Wasp. Plus Hawkeye is easily impressed, and The Wasp is, like, a girl and stuff.
Apr 29, 2011•12 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 57: Teen Titans #4
In Teen Titans #4, the Teen Titans team-up with Speedy to battle the forces of Diablo -- who apparently believes in wearing sweatsuits, speaking like Frankenstein, and tearing down all that is good and nice -- during an Olympics that occurred, well, two years prior to this issue.
Apr 01, 2011•23 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 56: Tales of Suspense #83
In Tales of Suspense #83, a guy who's not Cap but looks like him battles what may very well be the single stupidest Captain America villain ever, a character with the single stupidest "superpower" ever. Can you handle the coming of the summersault machine that is... The Tumbler?
Feb 25, 2011•15 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 55: Teen Titans #3
In this episode, you - and by you, we mean Earth-2.net honcho Michael David Sims - demanded the Teen Titans mix it up with surfboard-launching Woodies, doom dragsters, mismatched anarchist motorcycle gangs, gas pump robots... and the one, the only Ding Dong Daddy Dowd! If you dig "the rock," you need to click on this episode to hear Tom's thoughts of Teen Titans #3.
Feb 11, 2011•22 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 54: Tales of Suspense #82
With Tales of Suspense #82, we return to Captain America as he refuses to take a bath because they're for rich guys, and goes on a serious trip down bad memory lane. Then the Adaptoid makes the scene!
Dec 23, 2010•12 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 53: Teen Titans #2
In this episode, featuring Teen Titans #2, Garn the Teen Caveboy does battle with his mortal enemy to protect Penny, the girl he loves. Oh, and the Teen Titans sit around and watch. Featuring Titans Mail, the Titans Copter, and a moment that will gladden the heart of our very own Michael David Sims.
Dec 03, 2010•20 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 52: Phantom Stranger #3
Just in time for Halloween, Tom examines Phantom Stranger #3, where the world's greatest proto-emo psychic detective and Douche of the Year candidate, Doctor Thirteen, tries to save a carnival owner from being destroyed by a ghostly fortune-teller who looks like a loan officer.
Oct 31, 2010•23 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 51: Savage Tales #1
In the second part of his annual celebration of Halloween, Tom covers the debut of Man-Thing from Savage Tales #1, explains the origin of this unique magazine, as well as the character's odd position in comic book history. Plus, boobies. And Tom gets very disturbed trying to figure out where one character keeps a lit cigarette.
Oct 22, 2010•15 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 50: Phantom Stranger #2
In the first of our special Halloween episodes for 2010, covering Phantom Stragner #2, the Phantom Stranger and Doc Thirteen try to figure out what's behind a man's nine-lives claim, but don't bother questioning why a suburban family has a collection of sinister Amerind artifacts. Plus, the horror of Evil Larry Fine! Flashback Time! And even listener mail!
Oct 08, 2010•27 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 49: Teen Titans #1
In the debut issue of Teen Titans, the team joins the Peace Corps and goes south. They also battle a giant robot and strange monsters with heads that look like middle-aged account executives. All this and insensitive Latin stereotypes!
Oct 01, 2010•22 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 48: Tales of Suspense #81
In Tales of Suspense #81, The Red Skull has the Cosmic Cube and it's up to Captain America to stop him... by begging his foe to knight him? It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't for the villain cosplaying King Arthur. Plus, Tom sings and giggles over having to use the phrase "man-thing" repeatedly.
Sep 17, 2010•14 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 47: Showcase #59
In this, the last tryout story from Showcase #59, the Teen Titans have to prove the Flips, Bob Haney's insane idea of what a pop group is like, innocent of going on a bank-robbing crime spree. Plus, enjoy Tom's horror as he sings The Flips greatest hits. Funny thing? Those Flips lyrics are still better than anything Lady Gaga has come up with.
Sep 03, 2010•19 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 46: Tales of Suspense #80
In Tales of Suspense #80, Cap's pursuit of a hypnotized Keeper of The Cosmic Cube leads him to a confrontation with The Red Skull that somehow involves him calling Hitler a little loser biatch. Well, metaphorically, of course.
Jul 30, 2010•14 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 45: The Brave and the Bold #60
In The Brave and the Bold #60, Tom looks at the second Teen Titans tryout issue, which introduces the character-that-should-not-be: Wonder Girl. It also begins the association of the title with artist supreme Nick Cardy, and depicts an epic battle between surfboarding teens and a giant who can separate his body into different body parts. Plus Hondas. Lots of Hondas.
Jul 02, 2010•23 min
DJ Comics Cavalcade 44: Tales of Suspense #79
In Tales of Suspense #79, Captain America's seeing assassins that no one else can, but it's just the opening gambit of The Red Skull and his two stereotypical German assistants. All this, plus Them gets a name change, and more Flashback Time.
Jun 04, 2010•14 min
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