Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #117 (February 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. T. Rex, “Mambo Sun” (from Electric Warrior)

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #117

“The Many Traps of Baron Mordo” (8pgs; 2nd feature)

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

Art: Steve Ditko

Letters: Sam Rosen

 

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

This issue:

Dormammu: 1// Vishanti: 1

Series Total:

Agamotto: 2// Dormammu: 5//Hoggoth: 1// Valtorr: 1// Vishanti: 2//Book of the Vishanti (consulted): 1

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

 

Doctored images:

Double Trouble

protagonist?

Baron Mordo, will you never learn?

Bleecked Out (House)

Divide to conquer

Dimension Praecox

Ethereal Under Fire

Can Mordo do it?

Knave in the Woods

Magic loophole

Express tunnel

Evil eye

Mystic Melee

The Dark Things Cannot Stand the Light

Another Sorcerous Night, and He Ain't Got Nobody

Thanks for listening!

Talk at you soon!

 

Dave

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

Listen to episode #6 HERE!

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

Thanks for listening folks!

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Dave

Episode #5: Grand Maman’s Crumpets, Strange Tales #114, Cerebus #5

Listen to episode #5 HERE!

 

Music Track List

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

2. The Boswell Sisters, “We’re in the Money” (which you can get on this collection)

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

4. The Beatitude, “Jump (On This Hierarchy)” (from …And the Bag of Cacophany)

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

 

The podcaster and Grand-Maman Leduc, 2002

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #114 (November 1963)

“Dr. Strange, Master of… Black Magic” (5pgs; 3rd feature)

Script: Stan Lee

Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Sam Rosen

 

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

 

Doctored images:

Method mysticism?

The true colours of mysticism

Enter: Rolf

Astral Skype

Victoria Bentley

Ultimate Fighting: Interiority Division

Simage Gallery: Cerebus #5

Y: The Last Aardvark?

Ruler Rain

26???

Art deco skulking--my favourite Sim page to date

Fearful Prophecy

Destiny as Pinata

With great power comes great agency

Thanks for listening folks! See you next time!

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