In Green Lantern #4, the hero travels to the evil dimension of Qward to fight a round-headed robot that's secretly good. Then he finds his mask the target of a scavenger hunt run by Carol. Plus a mystery surrounding the artist - or artists - involved in drawing a story.
We're still in that brief run where Captain America and Bucky are having WWII-set fun. In Tales of Suspense #64, the Star-Spangled Duo face off against a midget with an oversized head, and a man in a monocle. They also fight a slew of henchmen who look like gangsters, talk like gangsters, but are Nazis. Apparently, these henchmen are very, very confused.
Tom tries to keep a straight face as Green Lantern is so desperate to not get married that he consciously creates the Menace He Calls... Chiller Diller! Plus the Emerald Guardian pursues two Qwardian spies disguised as traveling salesmen. All from Green Lantern #3.
In this episode, Tom examines the retelling of Captain America's origin story from Tales of Suspense #63, the beginning of the brief retro-Golden Age period of the series.
In this episode, covering Green Lantern #2, Green Lantern encounters The Weaponers of Qward - the first in a long line of introductions that build the Lantern Corps legend. Oh, and Hal Jordan continually calls an Inuit mechanic "Pieface" while searching for a lost mine. Well, that first story with the Weaponers is really cool.
In Tales of Suspense #62, Captain America is hired to put on a demonstration of his fighting prowess just so evil men can attack. Wait a minute! At least it's got a villain with a face far smaller than its head.
In this episode, Green Lantern gets his own book after the Showcase tryout, and celebrates the new status quo with a clip show. But since Green Lantern #1 marks a new inker coming onboard to assist Gil Kane, it's a lot better than it appears!
Every once in a while you get a dog, and in this episode Tom wrestles with Tales of Suspense #61, where Cap goes to Vietnam to fight a ruthless Japanese Sumo general in his Chinese palace while displaying his gooch. It's a chore, you betcha.
In this episode, Tom looks at the third and final issue of the Green Lantern tryout (Showcase #24), where Carol Ferris has marriage on her mind to a psychotic degree, Hal Jordan seems intent on calling some people "dark faced," and we witness the debut of the menace men call - well, Tom calls - Chicken-Head Mohawk.
In this episode, we continue our look at the early Captain America solo stories in Tales of Suspense. Issue #60 features the introduction of a major enemy... who gets his revenge on Cap elsewhere, a Rick Jones who is ignored and patronized, and the discovery that even bad guys love hearing Cap talk!
In this episode, Tom looks at the second issue of the three-part Green Lantern tryout in Showcase #23, where the Emerald Gladiator's first supervillain is revealed to be a radiation-sucking empty suit, Carol tells Hal they can't be together before asking him to hook her up, and we learn the natural enemy of yellow pterodactyls from Venus.
In this episode, Tom begins his survey of the solo stories of Marvel's Star-Spangled Avenger: Captain America. In Tales of Suspense #59 we'll see a story that features, well, lots of thugs in jumpsuits with crash helmets.
A smaller podcast featuring Tom Deja sharing classic Silver Age runs with you, looking at them through modern eyes. This episode begins a survey of the Emerald Guardian, the Hal Jordan Green Lantern, with his very first appearance in Showcase #22! Come experience the first three adventures of the ring-slinger, and witness Tom's incredulous reaction to the Hal Jordan / Carol Ferris relationship.
