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

Episode 4: The Beguiling, Neil the Horse, Strange Tales #111, Cerebus #4

Listen to the all-new, all-audible episode #4 HERE!

 

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. The Boswell Sisters, “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter” (which you can get on this collection)

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

 

A Beguiling Haul

Bleecker Banter: Strange Tales #111 (August 1963)

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

Script: Stan Lee

Plot, Artist: Steve Ditko

Letterer: Terry Szenics

 

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

Doctored images:

Black Magic superhero?

intimations of better worlds to come

let's get on with it!

 

Simage Gallery: Cerebus #4

Diptych

If death ever sleepwalked

Schulzian

never pull an aardvark's ear

iconic conicity

Where's the "Pop"

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