Episode 4: With Great Power

Welcome to Make Ours Marvel, the weekly show where Michael Kaiser and Jon M. Wilson read chronologically through Marvel Comics’ spandex adventures and discuss their thoughts with little to no authority.

In this episode…

  • The Incredible Hulk #2 (Jul 1962)
  • Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug 1962)

Images from Discussion:

Incredible Hulk #2 Because kids don't understand magnets anyway! Awkward... Who needs Hulk? Bruce Banner saves the day! Self-imprisonment. Amazing Fantasy #15 Jack Kirby Spider-Man designs by way of Steve Ditko's memory. If they only knew...I have to feed on human blood now... Selfishness kills. Marvel's first motivated super-hero is born!


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Episode 3: Why Should I Want To Be Human?

Welcome to Make Ours Marvel, the weekly show where Michael Kaiser and Jon M. Wilson read chronologically through Marvel Comics’ spandex adventures and discuss their thoughts with little to no authority.

In this episode…

  • The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962)
  • The Fantastic Four #5 (Jul 1962)

Images from Discussion:

Incredible Hulk #1 The Hulk! A monster of mostly regular stature... ...and screaming...and screaming...and screaming... The first iThumbnail! Smarter than the Leader? Fantastic Four #5 Johnny loves reading the Hulk, too! Thing loves Sue! (Reed? Not so much...) Cool time travel tech. It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history! Doom escapes again for the first time.


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