Chris and Cindy wrap up House of Franklin-Stein 2024 with a trip to Collinsport, Maine, and the House of Dark Shadows! Barnabas Collins, vampire is freed from his coffin prison, and plans to marry his long-lost love, no matter the bloody carnage he leaves in his wake! Starring Jonathan Frid and the cast from the classic TV series! Then “Captain Marvel Battles the Vampire” from Captain Marvel Adventures #1! The World’s Mightiest Mortal must stop the evil Bram Thirla, risen from the grave as a blo...
Oct 28, 2024
Say “I do” to this episode at The House of Franklin-Stein covering Tim Burton’s modern stop-motion classic Corpse Bride! On the eve of his wedding, a doomed groom says his vows to an undead bride waiting for true love! With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney, Michael Gough and Christopher Lee! From out of the comic crypt comes Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #108 by Cary Bates, Werner Roth and Vince Colletta! Lois is stalked by a “Spectre Suitor” who wants to be with ...
Oct 14, 2024
Enter the Hammer House of Franklin-Stein! Cindy and Chris discuss Hammer’s second entry in their original horror franchise, Revenge of Frankenstein! Peter Cushing returns as the mad baron, determined to create the perfect man! And it looks like he does…until cannibalism kicks in! Then follow us into the comic crypt for The Phantom Stranger #26, where the mysterious traveler encounters the Spawn of Frankenstein! By Len Wein, Marv Wolfman and Jim Aparo! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podc...
Sep 30, 2024
Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! Cindy and Chris kick off their 11th annual Halloween season series with the Oscar-winning 1931 classic, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Fredric March as the man and the monster within! From the comic crypt comes Wonder Woman #153 (April 1965) where the Duke of Deception steals Wonder Girl’s face, and replaces it with a monstrous Jekyll/Hyde version! It’s as crazy as it sounds! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AN...
Sep 16, 2024
The House of Franklin-Stein SPOOK SHOW! The 11th annual Halloween celebration begins in September and runs through October! Chris and Cindy present four episodes covering classic horror films, and tales featuring super heroes vs. legendary monsters! Subscribe via iTunes or Spotify. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Like our FACEBOOK page – https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Like our FACEBOOK page – https...
Aug 21, 2024
This episode BITES! It’s the final trip to the House of Franklin-Stein for 2023 as Chris and Cindy end the Halloween season with a look at the classic movie that started the Universal Horror cycle proper, 1931’s Dracula, starring the legendary Bela Lugosi! Then the Prince of Darkness returns to bedevil Storm and the rest of Marvel’s Merry Mutants in Uncanny X-Men Annual #6, by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND ...
Oct 23, 2023
Beware the moon! Chris and Cindy have a howling good time discussing the 1981 John Landis classic An American Werewolf in London, starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne, and featuring groundbreaking effects by Rick Baker! There’s another lycanthrope on the prowl in Amazing Spider-Man #124-125, when J. Jonah Jameson’s son goes furry as the macabre Man-Wolf! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: ...
Oct 09, 2023
Visit the Hammer House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy discuss the 1957 Hammer Horror classic The Abominable Snowman, starring Forrest Tucker and genre legend Peter Cushing, on an expedition to the Himalayas to find the mysterious Yeti! Then the Snowman comes to Gotham, when Batman clashes with a frozen foe in Batman #337 by Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (Praised Be His Name)! The Dark Knight tracks his enemy to Tibet in the sequel by Conway and Irv Novick, from Detecti...
Sep 25, 2023
Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy kick off their 10th Annual HoF series with discussion on James Whale’s immortal Universal classic film, The Invisible Man, featuring a deliciously mad performance by Claude Rains! Plus, another invisible foe vexes the Dark Knight in the Batman: The Animated Series episode “See No Evil”, guest-starring Michael Gross and a very young Elizabeth Moss! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST...
Sep 11, 2023
Return to The House of Franklin-Stein! Spooky season begins in one week when Chris and Cindy begin their 10th annual celebration of classic horror films, and tales featuring super heroes vs. legendary monsters! Subscribe via iTunes or Spotify. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Like our FACEBOOK page - https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Like our FACEBOOK page - https://www.facebook.com/supermatespodcast S...
Sep 04, 2023
In this year’s final trip to the House of Franklin-Stein, Chris and Cindy share an audio commentary on one of horror’s greatest films, James Whale’s 1931 classic, Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff! Then it’s back to the comic crypt for “Bizarro Meets Frankenstein” by Otto Binder, Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye from Superman #143 (Feb. 1961). The backwards duplicate of Superman wreaks havoc at a movie studio who dares to declare Frankenstein is the greatest monster! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotif...
Oct 24, 2022
Attaboy Luther!!! Ghosts haunt the House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy discuss the 1966 spooky comedy The Ghost and Mr. Chicken starring Don Knotts as a would-be reporter who encounters ghostly organ players, bleeding portraits and hilarious mayhem in an old abandoned mansion! Then the Gentleman Ghost returns from the grave to seek revenge on Superman and Wonder Woman in the All-New Super Friends Hour episode, “The Ghost”! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of...
Oct 10, 2022
Return to the Hammer House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy discuss The Satanic Rites of Dracula, featuring the final face-off between Christopher Lee’s Dracula and Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing! Plus, from the Comic Crypt comes Uncanny X-Men #159, where the Prince of Darkness takes a new bride…Storm! Will her teammates be able to save her from Dracula’s control? Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http://fire...
Sep 26, 2022
The House of Franklin-Stein rises from the tomb! Spooky season begins with Chris and Cindy discussing a Universal Monsters Mummy Double Feature! The Mummy’s Hand starring Tom Tyler, and The Mummy’s Tomb with Lon Chaney, Jr.! Then SHAZAM!!! The Super Mates unwrap Marvel Family #79 (Jan, 1953), where the World’s Mightiest Mortals meet the Mad Mummy in “The Dynasty of Horror” by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAS...
Sep 12, 2022
It’s the 100th Anniversary episode of Super Mates, and Chris and Cindy are throwing a Halloween Party! Join them as they discuss the modern classic, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street starring John Saxon, Heather Langenkmap, and of course, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger! Then the nightmares continue in Justice League of America #154 (May 1978). The League’s worst dreams come true thanks to the creepy Doctor Destiny, courtesy of Gerry Conway, Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin. All this, and ...
Oct 25, 2021
Hammer Time at the House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy cover Dracula A.D. 1972, starring Horror Icons Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing! Lee is back as the Count, awakened in the 20th century to vanquish the family line of his most hated foe. Can Cushing’s Van Helsing save his granddaughter and her swinging friends from Dracula’s bloody revenge? Then Batman tracks a vampire in Detective Comics #489 (April 1980) by J.M. DeMatteis and Irv Novick But is this undead killer the real deal? And ju...
Oct 11, 2021
Abbott & Costello are having The Time of Their Lives, and so are Chris & Cindy at the House of Franklin-Stein! The Super Mates discuss the comedy duo’s 1946 film, where Costello plays a patriotic ghost, out to prove he’s no dirty traitor, while pranking the unwitting Abbott! Then it’s back to the Comic Crypt for a ghostly encounter in Tales of the Teen Titans #71, Nov. 1986 (or New Teen Titans, Vol. 2 #12, Sept. 1985 if you prefer). The Titans encounter a mysterious little girl who seems...
Sep 27, 2021
Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! The annual Halloween celebration begins with Chris and Cindy discussing a Universal Monsters classic, The Ghost of Frankenstein! Lon Chaney, Jr. puts on the flat top and the neck bolts, while Bela Lugosi returns as the sinister Ygor! Then it’s off to the comic crypt, and X-Men (Vol. 1) # 30 “Mark of the Monster” by Roy Thomas, George Tuska, and Don Heck! The original mutant quintet meets Mary Shelley’s monster…or do they? Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. ...
Sep 13, 2021
Join Chris, Cindy, and daughter Dani for a SPOILER-FILLED, off-the-cuff discussion on the recently wrapped Disney + series starring everyone’s favorite Scarlet Witch and her synthezoid husband. From the sitcom tropes to the lingering mysteries surrounding the finale, the Super Mates discuss it all! SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Please consider supporting ...
Mar 08, 2021
Happy Holidays from the House of Franklin-Stein! Chris and Cindy are back with a special treat, a spooky, classic Christmas film! Join them as they watch and comment on the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol, starring the screen’s greatest Scrooge, Alastair Sim! The Humbugs continue with “Jonah’s Holiday Carol” from Marvel Holiday Special 2004. Peter Parker’s grumpy employer J. Jonah Jameson is visited by three super heroic spirits. Will they be able to change the old skinflint’s mind about celeb...
Dec 14, 2020
The final trip to the House of Franklin-Stein this season finds the Super Mates on the couch, with a commentary track on the 1987 contemporary classic, Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys! Can a band of teenage vampire hunters including Coreys Feldman and Haim defeat a gang of vampire punks led by Keifer Sutherland? Then it’s off to the comic crypt to cover Superman: The Man of Steel #41-42, and wrap up the saga of Babe Tanaka, vampire rock star!, by Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Klaus Janson, Den...
Oct 26, 2020
The Super Mates keep it in the family by discussing the 1939 Universal Monsters Classic, Son of Frankenstein! Boris Karloff returns as the Frankenstein Monster, joined by an all-star cast featuring Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, and a scene-stealing Bela Lugosi as Ygor! Then, via time hypnosis (!) we travel to the past with Batman and Robin to discover “The True Story of Frankenstein” from Detective Comics #135 (May 1948) by Edmond Hamilton and Bob Kane! Subscribe via iTunes. Or Spotify.. This p...
Oct 12, 2020
Chris and Cindy hop the pond to the Hammer House of Franklin-Stein! They discuss another classic Hammer film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, The Gorgon! A small European village is plagued by the curse of an ancient Grecian evil! Who has the stones to stop it? Then from the Comic Crypt comes Hawkman #25 (May 1968) by Bob “Zany” Haney and Dick Dillin, where the Winged Wonder must contend with the city-destroying powers of a revived Medusa! The only problem is, she’s taken up vacancy i...
Sep 28, 2020
Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! The Super Mates begin hosting the Halloween party no one can cancel with a Universal Monsters classic! Lon Chaney Jr. stars in the horror noir, Son of Dracula…but is he the son of the Count, or the real deal? And just who is pulling the strings, the count, or his vampire bride? Then it’s a bit of Saturday Morning Fever when Chris and Cindy discuss the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode, “The Bride of Dracula”. Drac has his romantic sites set on Fire...
Sep 14, 2020
Come to the only Halloween Party no one can cancel! The House of Franklin-Stein! Super Mates’ annual Halloween event is just going on no matter what! Listen to the latest horrifying trailer! Check out the video promo on the Fire and Water YouTube Page! Show your spooky pride with NEW House of Franklin-Stein and other fine Fire and Water merchandise at our F&W Tee Public store! Subscribe via iTunes. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http:/...
Aug 31, 2020
In this year’s final trip to the House of Franklin-Stein, Chris and Cindy sit down and watch (and comment) on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins and an all-star cast! Their couch-potatoing continues with the Super Friends episode “Voodoo Vampire”. Batman, Robin, Superman and Aquaman are transformed into slaves by the evil Vampiress! Can Black Vulcan and Wonder Woman save them? Happy Halloween!!! Our theme ...
Oct 28, 2019
Franklin-Stein created podcast about Frankenstein Created Woman! Chris and Cindy discuss the fourth Hammer Frankenstein film, starring Peter Cushing as the cunning Baron, with Susan Denberg as his most beautiful creation. But she’s got two souls trapped inside her, hungering for murderous revenge! Then it’s off to the comic crypt and The Invaders #31, by Don Glut and Chic Stone to meet yet another Frankenstein, and another monster, this one forced to work for the Third Reich! Can Captain America...
Oct 14, 2019
Howl at the House of Franklin-Stein! The Super Mates discuss 1994’s Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and James Spader. Is it a monster movie, or an examination of one man’s mid-life crisis in the corporate world? Or is it both? Then, Batman has a return bout with Anthony Lupus under the “Werewolf Moon” by Gerry Conway, Don Newton and Dan Adkins, from Detective Comics #505. Subscribe via iTunes. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSIT...
Sep 30, 2019
THE HOUSE OF FRANKLIN-STEIN RISES! The Super Mates return to discuss another atrocious abode, The Haunted Palace! Vincent Price and Lon Chaney, Jr. attempt to raise Lovecraftian horrors in the town of Arkham! The Lovecraft theme continues in Flash Plus #1 as Wally West and Nightwing investigate a mysterious tourist attraction, only to find themselves in the midst of an interdimensional invasion! Special shout out to Ryan Daly, Rob Kelly and Terry O'Malley! Subscribe via iTunes. This podcast is a...
Sep 16, 2019
Return to the House of Franklin-Stein! Super Mates’ annual Halloween event is just around the corner! Listen to the latest horrifying trailer! Get scary with House of Franklin-Stein and other fine Fire and Water merchandise at our F&W Tee Public store! Subscribe via iTunes. This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts & https://twitter.com/supermatespod Like ou...
Aug 12, 2019
