Episode #6: Strange Tales #115; Parole Girl [1933]; Cerebus #6

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Music Track List

1. Groucho Marx, “I’m Against It” (from Horse Feathers, 1932)

2. The Distillers, “Sing Sing Death House” (from Sing Sing Death House, 2002)

3. Red Aunts, “Eldritch Sauce” (official theme song of “Bleecker Banter”; from the Saltbox album)

4. The Queers, “The Sun Always Shines Around You” (from Punk Rock Confidential, 1998)

5. Ramones, “I’m Against It”  (from Road to Ruin)

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #115 (December 1963)

“The Origin of Dr. Strange” (8pgs; 2nd feature)

Script: Stan Lee

Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Sam Rosen

 

Spell Cheque (a running count of extra-dimensional countersignatories invoked in Dr. Strange)

Agamotto: 1// Dormammu:3// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 1

 

Second opinions? Consult the world’s foremost palindromic authority: neilalien!

 

Doctored images:

Who is he?

Dr. Feel Nothing

live free or die

Strange days indeed

great window, grim Mordo

more characteristic window, more grim Mordo

clamp got your tongue?

Ditko gropes for the psychology

the moment of Ditkonian decision

The Theatre of the Insured:

Parole Girl [1933]

**Audio Erratum! Apparently, I resent Mae Clarke’s unfortunate grapefruit-in-the-face rep so strongly that I refused to state the facts of the case correctly (although claiming she’d been hit with a watermelon makes it sound even worse)…. sorry about that!

 

Maeday! Maeday!

 

the conspirators

 

"I'm a good girl"

 

the sorority

 

a bright idea

 

manufacturing a third wheel

 

weirdest boss ever

 

precarious conviviality

Simage Gallery: Cerebus #6

right between the eyes

the male gaze

E'lass and alack

first contact

Don't you think I'd make a good Christmas Queen?

ambrosia

Lettering with a kick

happiness is a warm aardvark

The eyes (don't) have it

a melancholy wedding present

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Dave