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Some of My Friends Read Comics 236 – Fantastic Four: The Coming of Galactus + Thunderbolts #9

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Y’all ever heard of this Galactus guy? Always running around in red and green, throwing gas bombs at the Fantastic Four? Yeah, that’s classic Galactus.

Dude does way more than just planet-eating. 

We read all about it in his very first appearance in Fantastic Four #48-50.

The Silver Surfer makes his first appearance too, spending most of these issues talking to a blind sculptor. Classic Silver Surfer.

Then we move onto Thunderbolts #9, which was mostly an Avengers flashback. We spend a lot of time in the 60s this week!

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Next Time: We conclude the Death of Captain America in Captain America (2004) #37-42!

Some of My Friends Read Comics 093 – Remembering Stan Lee + Secret Wars 3

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With the passing of Stan Lee, we took a look back at some of his classic origin stories in Fantastic Four #1, Amazing Fantasy #15 and Avengers #1.

We celebrated this legend’s life the only way we knew how: debating what credit he should actually receive and how much should go to Ditko & Kirby.

Then we continued Secret Wars with issue 3 in which lots of stuff maybe happened. Blink and you’ll miss it!

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Next Time: Batman: A Death in the Family (Batman 426-429)

Some of My Friends Read Comics 082 – Fantastic Four 57-60: Dr. Doom Steals the Silver Surfer’s Powers + Crisis 3

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Doctor Doom loves to steal powers!

After touching on it in our last episode, we wanted to see more of his crazy schemes, so we went back to Fantastic Four 57-60 from the mid 1960s to watch him steal the Silver Surfer’s cosmic powers.

Ol’ Stan and Jack really had a good time with this one.

We also continued our read of Crisis on Infinite Earths with issue #3 which is getting slightly easier to understand. Slightly.

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Next Time: FF (2012) #4-8 – “Fantastic Faux”