Bleecker Banter: A Dr. Strange Podcast — Strange Tales #116 (January 1964)

Listen to the episode HERE!

 

Music Track List

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

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

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #116

“Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic!” (8pgs; 2nd feature)

Script: Steve Ditko (plot, un-credited); Stan Lee (script)

Art: Steve Ditko

Letters: Artie Simek

 

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

This issue:

Agamotto: 1// Dormammu: 1// Hoggoth: 1 //Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1

 

Series Total:

Agamotto: 2// Dormammu:4//Hoggoth: 1// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 1//Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1

 

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

 

Doctored images:

Keep an eye on that eye

Spider-Man viewer?

Ditkovian delirium

Enter: the Book of the Vishanti

The Jaws of un-Life

Major Spell Cheque action

Nightmare Hospitality

Dr. Strange descends to the use of parlor tricks

Ditkovian Man on Precipice (by far my favourite image from this issue)

a new friend

Status Quoed

Other shows mentioned this episode:

Amazing Spider-Man Classics

Komics Kast (look in early 2009 and early 2008 for the early Marvel episodes discussed!)

That’s it for now–thanks for listening/reading!

Dave

Episode #3: 1st app. of Dr. Strange/The Case of the Curious Bride [1935]/Cerebus #3

Episode no longer available–but enjoy the images!

(Of course, if you’re interested in hearing the episode–I can send it to you in Mp3 form–just let me know via Facebook or a comment)

Welcome to the strep-cast! If you’ll all just gather round my sickbed, I’ve got all kinds of things to say!

We begin with the music track list:

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

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

3. Annette Hanshaw, “Cooking Breakfast”

4. Fight Like Apes, “Snore Bore Whore” (from And the Mystery of the Golden Medallion)

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

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #110 (July 1963)

“Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts” (5pgs; 3rd feature)

Writer: Stan Lee

Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Terry Szenics

 

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

Doctored images:

Enter the Doctor!

Dr. Strange knows all

Dream balloon!

Nightmare's scheme

tsk tsk

 

Cinema of the Insured #2: The Case of the Curious Bride [1935]

WEIRDO!

The Duchess of Dubuque

Wini Shaw does her mid-30s thing

a fine lot of crustaceans

I forgot! Mayo Methot was in this too! (later, she would stab hubby Humphrey Bogart in the back--with a knife, I mean)

"These snails ain't been gettin' all their Vitamin D"

Captain bludgeoned

Cerebus #3: Simage Gallery

compromises

Thugg the Unseemly

errors of inattention

shouldn’t he want ants?

“Meat is Meat”

my favourite

 

That ‘s it for now! Hope you enjoy–and, if you do, please tell your friends!

I’m off to Toronto for a week–see you in late November!

Dave