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Capes and Japes
Briar and Olivia
Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 383

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#346 – Maria Hill
Episode 346
mardi 17 septembre 2024 • Duration 54:03
Today we talk about Maria Hill who has been the director of SHIELD, made some questionable decisions, and put a hit out on herself.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-New Avengers (2004) #4, 6-8, 16-21, 23, 25, 28-29, 37, 42
-Secret War (2004) #5
-Civil War (2006)
-X-Men Annual (2007) #1
-Silent War (2007) #2, 4-6
-The Invincible Iron Man (2004) #15
-The Mighty Avengers (2007) #1, 3, 5-8, 11-12, 20
-Ms. Marvel (2006) #13, 15
-Sub-Mariner (2007)
-Hulk (2008) #1-5, 7
-Secret Invasion (2008)
-Invincible Iron Man (2008) #1-33, 500.1, 527
-Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2007)-32
-True Believers (2008)
-Siege (2009)
-New Avengers Finale (2010)
-Avengers (2010) #1-6, 8, 10-12, 16, 18, 20-21, 28, 34
-Age of Heroes (2010) #3
-Hawkeye: Blindspot (2011) #1-3
-Fear Itself (2010) #1-4
-Avengers Assemble (2012) #3-4, 6, 8
-Winter Soldier (2012) #10-114, 16
-Marvel Now! Point One (2012) #1
-New Avengers (2010) #31-34
-Hawkeye (2012) #4-5, 20
-Indestructable Hulk (2012) #1-4, 6-11, 13, 16, 18, 20
-Avengers (2012) #4, 10, 25-26, 28, 35, 37, 39, 43-44
-Secret Avengers (2013) #1, 3-7, 9-16
-Uncanny X-Men (2013) #1, 5-6, 9-12, 19-22, 34
-Wolverine (2013) #8-13
-Captain America (2012) #11, 13, 17-22
-Avengers a.I. (2013) #6-7, 9-10
-Avengers World (2014) #1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-11, 13-15
-Black Widow (2014) #3-6, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 17-18
-Secret Avengers (2014)
-Amazing Spider-Man: Who Am I? Infinite Digital Comic (2014) #2-3, 12
-Hulk (2014) #1-4, 12, 15-16
-Avengers Undercover (2014) #4, 7-10
-Fantastic Four (2014) #4, 8-9
-Original Sin (2014) #3.1
-Deathlok (2014) #1, 3-4, 6, 9-10
-Avengers & X-Men: Axis (2014) #4
-Elektra (2014) #8-9, 11
-S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014) #1, 6, 9
-All-New X-Men (2012) #40-41
-All-New Hawkeye (2015) #3
-Fury: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary (2015) #1
-Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) #1-2, 7-9, 12
-Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015)
-Starbrand & Nightmask (2015) #2-4
-All-New Hawkeye (2015) #4-5
-Avengers: Standoff (2016)
-Black Widow (2016) #1-2, 12
-All-New Wolverine (2015) #6, 8-12, 15
-New Avengers (2015) #11-12
-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016) #5, 7, 9-10
-Civil War II: Part 1 (2016), Part 2
-Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) #1-10, 12, 16
-Spider-Man (2016) #5, 8-9, 11-12
-Thunderbolts (2016) #3, 7-8
-A Year of Marvels: August Infinite Comic (2016) #1
-Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1, 4-5
-Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) #15, 18
-Monsters Unleashed (2017) #3, 5
-Jessica Jones (2016) #7-8, 10-12
-Bullseye (2017) #5
-Despical Deadpool (2017) #298-299
-Hunt for Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda (2018) #1-3
-Invisible Woman (2019) #4-5
-2020 Force Works (2020) #1, 3
-Taskmaster (2020) #1, 5
-Civil War: Marvels Snapshots (2020) #1
-Secret Invasion (2022)
-Fantastic Four (2022) #6-7, 18
-I Am Iron Man (2023) #4-5
-Deathstroke (2016) vol. 1: The Professional
-Dark Knights of Steel: Allwinter (2024) #1
-Exceptional X-Men (2024) #1
-The Boy Wonder (2024) #5
-Chasm: Curse of Kaine (2024)
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#345 – Agatha Harkness
Episode 345
mardi 3 septembre 2024 • Duration 58:27
Today we talk about Agatha Harkness, who was an old woman an a witch who babysat Franklin Richards, taught Wanda Maximoff how to harness her magic, babysat Wanda's twins, died a couple of times, and is now a hot young(er) witch who is maybe evil.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Fantastic Four (1961) #94, 103, 107, 109-114, 116-117, 120, 123, 127, 129, 140-141, 150, 181-182, 185-199, 191, 193-194, 196, 204, 222-223, 368, 371-372, 374-377, 387, 416
-Avengers (1963) #127-130, 133-134, 137, 187, 234, 313, 503
-Giant-Size Avengers (1974) #2, 4
-Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #13-14
-Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #47, 66
-Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985) #3-5
-Avengers West Coast (1985) #50-52, 55-57, 61-63
-Infinity War (1992) #3-4, 6
-Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #46-47
-Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins (1992) #4-7
-Scarlet Witch (1994) #1, 3-4
-Nova (1994) #6-7
-Silver Surfer (1987) #135-137
-Avengers (1998) #10-11, 23
-Scarlet Witch (2015) #1-4, 8, 12-15
-Vision (2015) #3, 6-7, 11
-Doctor Strange Annual (2019) #1
-Captain America (2018) #19, 22-23, 27-28
-Fantastic Four: Antithesis (2020) #1, 4
-Strange Academy (2020) #8, 17-18
-Hulkling & Wiccan Infinity Comic (2021) #1-2, 4
-Who Is... the Scarlet Witch (2022) #1
-Captain Marvel (2019) #38-41
-Midnight Suns (2022)
-Contest of Chaos (2023)
-Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic (2022) #96
-Strange Academy: Blood Hunt (2024) #2-3
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#336 – Dane Whitman
Episode 336
mardi 2 juillet 2024 • Duration 47:45
Today we talk about Dane Whitman, best known as the Black Knight, as well as a couple of his predecessors because his cursed sword runs in the family.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Black Knight (1955)
-Tales to Astonish (1959) #52
-Avengers (1963) #6, 15-16, 47-48, 54-55, 60-62, 70-71, 84-85, 100, 157, 225-226, 252-297, 300, 329-375, 380
-Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #17
-Doctor Strange (1968) #178
-Defenders (1972) #4, 8, 11
-Incredible Hulk Weekly (UK) screenshots/review
-Doctor Strange (1974) #68-69
-Captain Britain (1985) #1, 4, 12-14
-Captain America (1968) #310, 314, 323, 332, 399-401, 425
-Incredible Hulk (1962) #312, 320-323, 403-404, 411
-Avengers Annual (1967) #14-16, 21-22
-Secret Wars II (1985) #5, 8-9
-Alpha Flight (1983) #36, 39-40, 61, 110
-West Coast Avengers Annual (1986) #1-2, 4
-X-Men Vs. Avengers (1987)
-Thor (1966) #381, 390, 396-400, 413, 447, 458, 464
-Solo Avengers (1987) #4, 12
-Damage Control (1989) #1
-Saga of the Sub-Mariner (1988) #12
-Marvel Fanfare (1982) #52-54
-Marvel Super Heroes (1990) #4, 10
-Iron Man (1968) #278-279
-Infinity War (1992)
-Fantastic Four (1961) #367-368, 378
-New Warriors (1990) #26-27, 33-34
-Marc Spector: Moon Knight (1989) #41, 43-44
-Citizen Kang (1992)
-Quasar (1989) #41-42, 54
-New Warriors Annual (1991) #3
-Avengers Annual (1967) #22
-Infinity Crusade (1993)
-Avengers/X-Men: Bloodties)
-Namor the Sub-Mariner (1990) #61
-Marvel doesn’t have Ultraforce on their site but Black Knight appears in the following:
- Ultraforce (1994) #8-10
- Ultraforce/Avengers: Prelude #11
- Ultraforce (1995) Infinity, #1-12
- Ultraforce/Avengers #1
- Phoenix Resurrection: Genesis, Revelations
- Ultraforce/Spider-Man #1A
- Foxfire (1996) #1-2, 4
- Ultraverse Unlimited #2
- Ultraverse Future Shock #1
-Heroes for Hire (1997)
-Uncanny Origins (1996) #11
-Avengers (1998) #1-4, 16-18, 31, 38, 40-44, 46, 52-55, 58, 501-502
-Quicksilver (1997) #7, 11-12
-Heroes for Hire/Quicksilver Annual (1998)
-Avengers Forever (1998) #8-9, 11
-Excalibur (2001)
-New Excalibur (2005) #10-15
-Captain Britain and MI: 13 (2008), 2009 Annual
-Gambit (2012) #7, 17
-X-Men Legacy (2012) #13
-Avengers World (2014) #8, 10, 12, 14
-Original Sins (2014) #2
-Black Knight (2015)
-Avengers (2016) #4-6
-War of the Realms (2019) #3
-War of the Realms Strikeforce: The War Avengers (2019) #1
-Punisher Kill Krew (2019) #4-5
-Empyre: Avengers (2020)
-Savage Avengers (2019) #14-16, 26-28
-Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black (2020) #1-3
-Avengers (2018) #40-43
-King in Black: Black Knight (2021) #1
-Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade (2021)
-Death of Doctor Strange: X-Men/Black Knight (2022) #1
-Savage Avengers (2022)
-Ngozi Ukazu Orion announcement
-X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse (2024) #2
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#247 – Eclipso
Episode 247
mardi 4 octobre 2022 • Duration 50:36
Today we talk about Eclipso, who has gone from a scientist who accidentally became evil for a bit, to a manifestation of the Wrath of Christian God, to a powerful being from Gem World. He possesses people with black diamonds and anger.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-House of Secrets (1956) #61-80
-Eclipso: The Darkness Within (1992) reading order
-Eclipso (1992)
-Spectre (1992) #14-18
-JSA (1999) #46-52, 56-58, 73-75
-Action Comics (1938) #826, Adventures of Superman (1987) #639, Superman (1986) #216
-Day of Vengeance (2005)
-52 (2006) #27
-Blue Beetle (2006) #16
-Countdown to Mystery (2007)
-Brightest Day (2010) #7
-Justice League of America (2006) #54-59
-Team 7 (2012) #1-4
-Sword of Sorcery (2012) #6-9
-Justice League Dark (2011) #23.2
-Justice League vs. Suicide Squad (2016) #4-6
-Justice League Dark (2018) #15-19
-The Flash (2016) #775-779
-Black Panther, Wakanda Forever trailer
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#246 – Abigail Brand
Episode 246
mardi 27 septembre 2022 • Duration 53:43
Today we talk about Abigail Brand, the morally-grey half-unknown alien-half-human mutant pyrokinetic commander of S.W.O.R.D. who is truly a woman of many mysteries.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Astonishing X-Men (2004)
-Secret Invasion (2008)
-Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? (2008) #1
-S.W.O.R.D. (2009)
-Spider-Woman (2009) #1
-Uncanny X-Men (2011) #1
-Avengers vs X-Men: Consequences (2012) #4
-X-Men: Legacy (2012) #19-#24
-Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) #8
-Captain Marvel (2016)
-The Mighty Captain Marvel (2017)
-Captain Marvel (2019) #10
-X-Force (2019) #11
-Empyre: Aftermath Avengers (2020) #1
-S.W.O.R.D. (2020)
-New Mutants (2019) #30
-Cable (2020)
-Dead Boy Detectives (2014)
-ShortBox Comics Fair
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#245 – The Bloodstone Family
Episode 245
mardi 20 septembre 2022 • Duration 49:16
Today we talk about the Bloodstone family, started by Ulysses Bloodstone who was an immortal monster hunter until he died and was succeeded by his daughter Elsa, who found her lost brother Cullen in another dimension, and then they discovered their sister Lyra!
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Marvel Presents (1975) #1-#2
-Bloodstone (2001)
-Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone & the Monster Hunters (2005)
-Nextwave (2006)
-Astonishing Tales: Boom Boom & Elsa Bloodstone (2009) #1
-Legion of Monsters (2011)
-Avengers Arena (2012)
-Avengers Undercover (2014)
-Marvel Zombies (2015)
-Monsters Unleashed! (2017)
-Doctor Strange: Damnation (2018)
-Excalibur (2019) #8
-Death of Doctor Strange: Bloodstone (2022) #1
-Batman vs. Robin (2022) #1
-Tales of the Human Target (2022) #1
-Dark Knights of Steel: Tales from the Three Kingdoms (2022) #1
-Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
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#244 – Theodore Sallis
Episode 244
mardi 13 septembre 2022 • Duration 51:38
Today we talk about Ted Sallis, most commonly known as Man-Thing, who accidentally super soldier serum-ed himself into becoming a magic swamp creature.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Song for Ted Sallis by The Mountain Goats
-Savage Tales (1971) #1
-Adventure into Fear (1970) #10
-Man-Thing (1974)
-Giant-Size Man-Thing (1974)
-Man-Thing (1979)
-Infernal Man Thing (2012)
-Man-Thing (2017)
-R.L. Stine Man-Thing (2017) panels
-Curse of the Man-Thing (2021)
-Briar's diagram on Discord
-Batman (2016) #127
-Cable (2020)
-Everything Marvel announced at D23 (2022)
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#243 – Rac Shade
Episode 243
mardi 6 septembre 2022 • Duration 52:00
Today we talk about Rac Shade, a guy who originally came to Earth to clear his name in his own dimension but was turned into a poet tasked with astral projecting to Earth to discover a cure to a problem on his own plant.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Steve Ditko Omnibus starring Shade the Changing Man
-Suicide Squad (1987) #16
-Shade the Changing Man (1990)
-Hellblazer (1988) #268
-Flashpoint (2011)/Flashpoint: Secret Seven (2011)
-Justice League Dark (2011)
-Shade the Changing Girl (2016)
-Shade the Changing Woman (2018)
-Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022) #4
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#242 – Perry White
Episode 242
mardi 30 août 2022 • Duration 46:51
Today we talk about Perry White, who is (and has been for a while) the Editor of the Metropolis newspaper The Daily Planet, and also Clark Kent's boss.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Adventures of Superman (1940) Episode 2 radio show
-Superman (1939) #7
-World's Finest Comics (1941) #80
-Superman (1939) #233
-The Man of Steel (1986)
-World of Metropolis (1988) #1
-Adventures of Superman (1987) #470
-Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #38
-Superman (1986) #131
-Bruce just thinks running a newspaper would be fun!
-Perry is too good a journalist...
-Superman: Birthright (2003) #4
-Final Crisis (2008) #2
-Superman: Secret Origin (2009) #3
-Superman (2011) #1
-Doomsday Clock (2017) #5
-Clark reveals his identity to Perry
-Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White (2022) #1
-Red Hood: Outlaws
-Waller vs. Wildstorm announcement
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#241 – Firestorm Roundup
Episode 241
mardi 23 août 2022 • Duration 47:14
Today we talk about all the people and combinations of people that have made up the nuclear powered (but fire-themed) superhero Firestorm, but mostly Ronnie Raymond, Martin Stein, and Jason Rusch.
Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Firestorm: The Nuclear Man (1978)
-The Fury of Firestorm (1982)
-JLA (1996) #69
-Identity Crisis (2004)
-Firestorm (2004)
-Infinite Crisis (2005)
-52 (2006)
-Justice League of America (2006) #32
-Blackest Night (2010)
-Brightest Day (2011)
-The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men (2011)
-Legends of Tomorrow Anthology (2016)
-Doomsday Clock (2017)
-X of Swords
-She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
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