Random Stan Lee Podcasts

J David Weter dives into the world of Marvel Comics in the 1980’s.

Categories: Arts

Tags: 1980s, Black Panther, Captain America, Hulk, jack kirby, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Thor, x-men

For over a year the hosts of Now Playing have watched and reviewed every movie based off a Marvel Comics series, but now they enter into their last Marvel review series with the most popular Marvel Comic character of all time — Spider-Man! Join us as we watch and review all the Spider-Man movies from the 1970s made-for-TV films through the 2012 Amazing Spider-Man reboot! For over a year the hosts of Now Playing have watched and reviewed every movie based off a Marvel Comics series, but now they enter into their last Marvel review series with the most popular Marvel Comic character of all time — Spider-Man! His red and blue spandex suit is iconic, outshining even Mickey Mouse in global brand awareness, and his 2002 movie even bested Star Wars in the box office. But before Tobey Maguire became the face of Spider-Man, there was Nicholas Hammond. Continuing their roster of prime time superhero shows, CBS ordered a two-hour pilot movie featuring Spider-Man, a college student and part-time photographer. Can the production budget of a 70s television show do justice to Spider-Man’s amazing powers? Listen to Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob’s review to find out!

Categories: Music, TV & Film

Tags: action, Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield, comic book, comic books, comics, film, marvel comics, Mary Jane, Movies, Peter Parker, Sam Raimi, Sci-Fi, Spider-Man, spiderman, Stan Lee, Tobey Maguire, Venom, Webhead

Before Spider-Man, X-Men, or the Incredible Hulk were ever imagined, the Marvel Universe we know today began with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s first issue of The Fantastic Four, a superhero team made up of the elastic Mister Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing. Marvel’s First Family were a new type of superhero that had personal problems as well as super-villains to fight. In print, the comic was an instant hit, but in theaters, the Fantastic Four have a less-than-fantastic cinematic history. Now join Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob as they continue their look at all the Marvel Comics movie adaptations with all three Fantastic Four feature films. In this first installment, the Now Playing hosts watch a film never meant to be seen — 1994’s Fantastic Four. Made on the cheap and possibly never intended for release, this film has become legend to comic book lovers and film lovers alike. Why was this film never released? Did it deserve its fate? Listen to find out!

Categories: Music, TV & Film

Tags: action, Barbarshop, comic books, fantastic four, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, jack kirby, marvel comics, Mister Fantastic, Movies, Reed Richards, Roger Corman, Sci-Fi, Stan Lee, thing

With a flaming skull, a leather jacket, and a bad bike, Ghost Rider embraced the biker comics counterculture in the 70’s and had a resurgance as a dark hero in the 90’s. The first Ghost Rider film broke box office records, and now Nicholas Cage reprises his role as the devil’s bounty hunter. And continuing their look back at all movies based on Marvel Comics heroes, and in anticipation of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie will be watching and reviewing both Ghost Rider films.

Categories: Music, TV & Film

Tags: action, avengers, Avi Arad, Black Widow, brian taylor, Captain America, comic book, crank!, devil, Dr. Strange, Eva Mendez, film, Ghost Rider, hawkeye, Hulk, Iron Man, Mark Neveldine, Marvel, marvel comics, Movies, Nicholas Cage, nick cage, Nick Fury, Satan, Sci-Fi, Stan Lee

As featured on LEGO.com, Marvel.com, Slugfest, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Today Show, host & series producer Alex Grand, author of Understanding Superhero Comic Books (with various co-hosts such as Bill Field, David Armstrong, N. Scott Robinson, Ph.D. and Jim Thompson) and guests engage in a Journalistic Comic Book Historical discussion between professionals, historians and scholars in determining what happened and when in comics, from strips and pulps to the platinum age comic book, through golden, silver, bronze and then toward modern

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Categories: Arts, History

Tags: alex grand, alex raymond, Batman, comic book, DC Comics, jack kirby, marvel comics, newspaper strip, Stan Lee, Superman, Wonder Woman

Welcome to Now Playing’s X-Men Movie Retrospective Series! With the upcoming release of X-Men First Class, Now Playing hosts Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob as we look back on all the X-Men films from Generation X to Wolverine, ending with First Class! This is one school with classes you don’t want to skip, so listen now!

Categories: Music, TV & Film

Tags: action, chris claremont, comic books, cyclops, first class, gambit, Generation X, marvel comics, Movies, Mutant, rogue, Sci-Fi, Stan Lee, storm, wolverine, x-men

The Incredible Hulk has been a staple in Marvel Comics since his first appearance in 1962, including a founding member of The Avengers. Now, as Now Playing starts its next leg of it’s Marvel Comic Movie Retrospective, leading up to The Avengers, Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart are reviewing all the pre-Avengers series Hulk films starting with the 1977 TV Pilot film! Join us at NowPlayingPodcast.com each week as we review another Hulk film!

Categories: Music, TV & Film

Tags: action, avengers, Avi Arad, Bill Bixby, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, Captain America, comic book, David Banner, Dr. Strange, Eric Bana, film, hawkeye, Hulk, Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Lou Ferrigno, Marvel, marvel comics, Movies, Nick Fury, Sci-Fi, Stan Lee