DNA Podcast 140 – Marvel Product Tie-In Comics

In this episode, Rob, Don and Jack Ward take a trip back to the 1970s and 1980s, when a floundering Marvel Comics was saved by barbarians, vampires, giant robots and toys soldiers. It's the story of product tie-ins brought life back to the dying comics company, and in the process reinvented the comics industry for the time. All that, and two of the greatest Marvel comics you've never read, is waiting for you in this episode of The Department of Nerdly Affairs. Closing Music: Ode to Joy performed by Oliver Eckelt Things Discussed: Roger Corman Fantastic Four Oswald the Dragon The Reluctant Dragon Willow: The Series Dell Comics Disney Tie-Ins Gold Key Star Trek Marvel's Conan Roy Thomas Kull the Conqueror Comic Marvel Tomb of Dracula Dracula Sovereign of the Damned Anime Movie Doc Savage Master of Kung Fu/Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Planet of the Apes Comics Logan's Run Wizard of Oz DC/Marvel Superman vs. Mohammed Ali Marvel Star Wars Marvel Hanna Barbera Comics Marvel Godzilla Comic Battle Fever J The Human Fly Comic 1977 Bill Mantlo Herb Trimpe KISS Marvel Comics The Micronauts Comic Peter B. Gillis The Shogun Warriors Comic Force Five Voltron Jimmy Wu ROM: Space Knight Dazzler Dreadstar GI JOE Marvel Comic Starstruck Amethyst: Princess of the Gemworld Crystar the Crystal Warrior Comic Team America U.S. ONE Comic Transformers Marvel Comic Simon Furman Questprobe Questprobe Afro STAR Comics Elfquest The Congress (Movie, Robin Wright)