Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re diving back into 1970s Marvel Comics this week, specifically looking at comics featuring the pulp adventure character (and prototype for modern superheroes everywhere) Doc Savage. From 1972 to 1977, Marvel held a license to produce comic books featuring the Man of Bronze and his Fabulous Five companions. This week we’re looking at a pair of issues from 1972 adapting the classic Doc Savage novel DEATH IN SILVER from 1934, as well as a crossover issue in which Doc ...
Jul 05, 2024
Greetings, Tomb Believers! This episode concludes our two-part coverage looking at the 1992 crossover event RISE OF THE MIDNIGHT SONS! In the final three issues of the event we see Marvel do their very best Vertigo impression, a team of vampire hunters decked out like characters from an Ann Rice novel, and a final issue where Dr. Strange realizes he never actually got around to telling everyone they were part of a mystic super-team. Our books for this episode are: DARKHOLD: PAGES FROM THE BOOK O...
Jun 21, 2024
Greetings, Tomb Believers! This time we’ve got another of those Big Marvel Storylines that we’ve been promising we’d get around to ever since we first started this show. So crack open a Clearly Canadian, throw a Jim Steinman album into your Discman as we travel back to 1992 for Marvel’s six-part RISE OF THE MIDNIGHT SONS crossover. In this episode, we’ll discuss the first half of the crossover, which includes: GHOST RIDER Vol 3, # 28 GHOST RIDER/BLAZE: SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE #1 MORBIUS: THE LIVING...
Jun 07, 2024
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’ve had it on the list since this show began, and we’ve finally gone and done it – and episode on the entire first MARVEL ZOMBIES miniseries from 2006! How well does it hold up? Can a book about zombie superheroes being awful to each other sustain itself for five issues? PLUS we catch up on other recent goings-on in Marvel and horror-adjacent things, including the first season of X-MEN ’97! Do you have fond memories of MARVEL ZOMBIES (or any of its sequels/spin-offs?...
May 24, 2024•2 hr 8 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! Things are coming to a head in the Tomb, as your humble hosts have had one disagreement too many! The only solution – TRIAL BY COMBAT! READING AND DISCUSSING VIOLENT COMICS. That’s right, we’re looking at the recently published PREDATOR VERSUS WOLVERINE 4-issue miniseries from Marvel’s 20th Century Studios imprint, written by Benjamin Percy and with art handled by Ken Lashley, Greg Land, Andrea Di Vito, Hayden Sherman, Kei Zama, and Gavin Guidry. Who will win? The dead...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re diving into another random grab bag episode this week! To help us out, we are joined by friend of the show Sean McGuinness ! Each of us picked out one issue to read and discuss this week – and somehow, all three of us landed right in the middle of the Bronze Age! However, that’s about all these three issues have in common. And so, our issues for this week are: GHOST RIDER vol 2 #16 THE INCREDIBLE HULK #203 MARVEL TEAM-UP vol 1 #74 Will Ghost Rider’s hellfire have...
Apr 26, 2024•2 hr 14 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! This is it! The thrilling conclusion to our three-part series discussing CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI:13 in its entirety! (In case you missed them, Part 1 and Part 2 released earlier this week). And this final story arc has EVERYTHING – up to and including Dracula shooting vampires out of cannons from his castle on the moon. For this episode, we are covering CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI:13 #10-15, plus the annual (which we are slotting in between issues 13 & 14). Plus we h...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 49 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! In our second episode this week, we’re discussing the second story arc of CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI:13, “Hell Comes to Birmingham.” So, if you’re reading along, that means we’ll be talking about issues 5-9. In addition, we are thrilled to be joined by the writer of the series, Paul Cornell ! In addition to writing CAPTAIN BRITAIN, he has also written DOCTOR WHO, ACTION COMICS, SAUCER COUNTRY, and much more. Plus Mr. Cornell, along with artist Rachael Smith, currently ha...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re baaaaaack! But no, we’re not going to be talking about that X-Men/Star Trek novel this time. We’ll come back to it…maybe…some day. But to make it up to you, we’re giving you a triple dose of TOI! That’s right three brand-new episodes of TOMB OF IDEAS released in (hopefully) just one week! What is the occasion of this trilogy, you might ask? This week’s special three part series is devoted to the entirety of the 2008-2009 series CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI:13 by Paul...
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Podcaster’s log. Episode 108. Our journey into the strangest corners of the Marvel universe has taken an interdimensional turn, as we have arrived at the two X-Men/Star Trek crossovers from the late 1990s.To give us some help as we boldly go on this voyage, we’ve beamed aboard friend of the show and fellow Star Trek enthusiast Andrew Leyland! The issues we are discussing this week are: STAR TREK/X-MEN #1 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION/X-MEN: SECOND CONTACT #1 Just how 90s is the art? Which era o...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 22 min
TIMEQUAKE of 12.8 Magnitude on the Simonwalt Scale!!! Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing our special look at the multiversal TIMEQUAKE event from 1992 and things are in full swing…or is it FULL SHAKE!? As we started the event in our last epic episode, we finish it here, with… WHAT IF? vol 2 #36 – “What if…the COSMIC AVENGERS battled the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY?” (Timequake part 2 of 5) WHAT IF? vol 2 #37 – “What if…WOLVERINE had been LORD OF THE VAMPIRES during INFERNO?” (Timequake part...
Feb 08, 2024•1 hr 43 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing our special WHAT IF? series this week, as we cover the multiversal TIMEQUAKE event from 1992. First, we wrap up the issues that introduce the various realities featured in the event: first, a world with a powerless Fantastic Four, followed by two possible timelines where Vision of the Avengers conquered the world. (We’re skipping over WHAT IF? vol 1 #24 because we already covered that one on our X-Vampires episode back in October 2022.) Finally, we arr...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! James and Trey are back with the first Tomb of Ideas for 2024 – and it’s a Grab Bag episode! To start things off right, they’ve fired up their Randomizer and allowed it to pick three completely random issues from across the entire history of Marvel Comics. And what issues did this very high tech and complicated piece of equipment select? WHAT IF? vol 1 #1 WHAT IF? vol 1 #6 WHAT IF? vol 1 #21 Join us as we depart from 616 to observe other, weirder corners of the Marvel ...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Happy HORRORdays, Tomb Believers! We’ve almost reached the end of 2023, and to celebrate the season we’re digging into our longboxes for a bit of holiday cheer. For our last episode of this year, we’re throwing a bit of a party. And, as we enjoy our wassail and figgy pudding, we’ll be taking a look at the 1993 Marvel Holiday Special. Plus, since this is an anthology book, we’ve forced invited some of our party guests to join in the Marvel merriment! In this Tomb of Ideas Holiday Spectacular, we’...
Dec 23, 2023•1 hr 38 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! Some podcasters are always trying to record uphill. That’s why we’re starting December with a change of pace from our usual episodes: a brand new feature-length audio commentary! That’s right, we’re sinking our fangs into BLADE (dir. Stephen Norrington, 1998), the movie that launched the superhero movie boom of the early aughts. It’s got everything – Wesley Snipes chopping up bloodsuckers with a katana, Donal Logue hamming it up as Stephen Dorff’s villainous sidekick, ...
Dec 13, 2023•2 hr 8 min
May the Force be with you, Tomb Believers! That’s right, at long last we are covering our first ever issue of Marvel’s STAR WARS comics, as part of a special grab bag episode selected entirely by returning guest Andrew Leyland! In addition to STAR WARS vol 1 #45, Andrew has picked out MARVEL TEAM-UP vol 1 # 122, in which ol’ Web-head runs into Man-Thing and a man called Fate (no, not that one) as well as FANTASTIC FOUR vol 1 #274, which checks in on the ever-lovin’ blue eyed Thing during his SEC...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Hello there, darlings…errr, I mean, Hello there, Tomb-Believers! On this episode, James and Trey finally get to talk about the hostess with the most-est, the legendary Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!! That’s right, they’re talking about ONLY Marvel Comic to feature your ghoulish gal pal, MARVEL SPRING SPECIAL #1, otherwise known as the comics adaptation of the 1988 film, well….”ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK”. Joining our drooling duo for this outing is comics writer, director, actor, and all around...
Nov 16, 2023•1 hr 45 min
Happy Halloween, Tomb Believers! We know we’re a little early this week, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to celebrate the season (and get in on the CINE-WEEN action) by releasing our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE on Halloween. It was exactly five years ago that we released the first episode of TOMB OF IDEAS. Since then we’ve gone through some changes, but we’re still here talking about our favorite monstrous and spooky comic book stories. In this episode we’re digging into one of the quirkiest m...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 38 min
WE’VE DONE IT, TOMB-BELIEVERS James and Trey have reached the final installment of their coverage of the epic 1988 INFERNO crossover! This week, they discuss: X-FACTOR ANNUAL 4 X-FACTOR #40 and WHAT IF V2 #6: WHAT IF THE X-MEN HAD LOST INFERNO? We love getting feedback from listeners – you can send any comments, questions, or other feedback to tombofideas@gmail.com. Plus, be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We have reached the penultimate installment of our summer(ish)-long INFERNO series! Our special guest this week is friend of the show and New Pulp author extraordinaire Barry Reese! Barry has worked on Marvel Handbooks and Encyclopedias and has also written stories featuring classic pulp characters such as the Avenger and the Green Hornet. Plus he’s the creator of Lazarus Gray, the Peregrine, and the Gravedigger. This week, he’s joining us to discuss: X-FACTOR #39 DAMA...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 27 min
James and Trey continue their Inferno coverage as they welcome comics and video game writer extraordinaire, David Gallaher to the podcast to talk about: Uncanny X-Men 242 X-Factor 38 Spectacular Spider-Man 148 Uncanny X-Men 243 Send comments, questions, or other feedback to tombofideas@gmail.com. Plus, be sure to follow us on our Facebook page, on the app formerly known as Twitter @TombofIdeas, our Instagram and Threads feeds, and of course our brand-new Bluesky @tombofideas.bsky.social! Ex-HELL...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re back with part seven of our ongoing summer-long Inferno event! This week we are joined by returning guest Chad Bowers, co-writer of X-MEN ’92, G.I. JOE: SNAKE EYES: DEADGAME, DEADPOOL: BAD BLOOD, and the brand new miniseries DEADPOOL: BADDER BLOOD! As you might guess from those credentials, Chad is something of an X-pert, and we are thrilled to have him join in our discussion. This week’s issues are: NEW MUTANTS #73 EXCALIBUR #6 & 7 DAREDEVIL #265 X-FACTOR #3...
Aug 30, 2023•1 hr 54 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! It’s time for the sixth part of our summer-long coverage of Marvel’s 1989 Inferno crossover event! To help us out this week, we are joined once again by Ringo award nominated, Best of Austin-winning comic book writer (and creator of Halloween Man) Drew Edwards! This episode is surprisingly light on mutants for an X-event (although the one issue of X-Men we have is a big one!). But we do have plenty of Spider-Man to talk about, plus an odd Kang-centric issue of Fantasti...
Aug 16, 2023•2 hr 8 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! If you’re worried about a sudden crispy, burning sensation, don’t go looking for the aloe – you’re just in the midst of INFERNO! This week, we’re joined by Ryan Does of ACROSS THE BI-FROST: THE MIGHTY THOR PODCAST to discuss the next five issues of the event. Our comics for this episode are: DAREDEVIL #263 POWER PACK #43 AVENGERS #300 X-TERMINATORS #4 NEW MUTANTS #72 As always, you can send any comments, questions, or other feedback to tombofideas@gmail.com . Plus, be ...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Don’t touch that dial, Tomb Believers! We’re turning up the heat on our Inferno coverage thanks to special guest Jack Rudo of Stapled Spine ! Not only does he join in on our discussion of this week’s comics, but in true DJ fashion he has picked out a song to go with each book! The issues for this week are: AVENGERS #299 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #312 X-FACTOR #36 UNCANNY X-MEN #240 POWER PACK #42 This week has a little bit of everything – plenty of mutant action, more McFarlane Spider on Goblin action,...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Roll for initiative, Tomb-Believers! You have encountered a very special episode of the Tomb in which James and Trey are joined by the Fire and Water Network ‘s Irredeemable Shag and comics and video game writer David Gallaher to play the 1980’s Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game (affectionately known as FASERIP) from dearly departed TSR!!! Turn order is: David as “The Judge” Shag as Illyana Rasputin/Magik Trey as Joey Chapman/Union Jack James as Dane Whitman/The Black Knight. As always, you c...
Jul 12, 2023•2 hr 37 min
Welcome back, Tomb-Believers, to the TOMB OF IDEAS, or should we say TOMB OF INFERNO! That’s right, it’s our third installment of our summer-long (and then some) look at the event to was burning up the X-books of 1988 and half the Marvel Universe with it and you (yes YOU) lucky listener, are invited along for the ride. Not just you, however, as we will also be joined on this journey of damnation by Cinema Smorgasbord ‘s own Adrianna as we discuss: SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN 146 FANTASTIC FOUR #322 W...
Jul 05, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We’re continuing with the second installment of our summer(ish) event covering all of the 1988-89 X-Men storyline INFERNO. This week we are joined by noted X-Men fan and Cinepunx Pod-Daddy Liam O’Donnell! He’s here to help us get through a bunch of Marvel comics that are surprisingly light on X-Men: X-TERMINATORS #1 & #2 AVENGERS #298 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #311 DAREDEVIL 262 Along with the expected mutants vs goblins action, we’ve got some Todd McFarlane Spidey art, D...
Jun 21, 2023•2 hr 1 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! June is upon us, and as we have promised (threatened?) for the last several episodes we are spending the summer covering the 1988-89 Marvel event INFERNO! We’re starting at the very top with several issues that serve as something of a prelude to the event proper. This week we are discussing: UNCANNY X-MEN vol. 1 #239 X-FACTOR vol. 1 #33-35 While this epic event spans a broad spectrum of the Marvel Universe, it is first and foremost an X-Men story arc. Since neither Tre...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Greetings, Tomb Believers! We have made it to the finish line! In this episode we conclude our coverage of the 2021 HEROES REBORN event. As with our previous episodes, we have a couple of tie-in issues that further flesh out the supporting characters and status quo of President Coulson’s altered Marvel Universe while in the main book the Squadron Supreme of America finally comes into direct contact with Blade’s reconstituted team of Avengers. What is the secret origin of this altered reality? Ca...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 40 min
