In this episode, Stan Lee and George Tuska continue the slow build of The Sleeper Saga by introducing The Devil-Bat Monstrosity to fight alongside The Milk Jug of Doom...plus Captain America fights a broken log.

In this episode, Green Lantern onces more travels to the 58th Century and uses a giant statue to foil the evil designs of a malicious stage magician....and no, it's not Abra Kadabra.

Plus Hal gets knocked out again.

It's a landmark episode, as we look at the first part of the epic The Sleepers Awakes! storyline, where Captain America encountes what's supposed to be a scary Kirby-esque monstrosity...but thanks to George Tuska is actually a giant milk jug.

It's actually quite good.  Really.

In this episode, Green Lantern behaves very oddly...no, not in the story that depicts his trial, but in the story where he lets his power ring fall through his trouser pocket and celebrates the marriage of his friend by extolling the joy of getting married so that your wife can sew your clothes.

It's the last issue of the 'Captain America in WWII' arc, as Cap and Bucky feign unconsciousness, dying just doesn't stop Celia from talking...and talking, and Rawlings blows things up good!

In this issue, our man Hal goes to a subatomic world to fix a problem he caused and tells....grumblemutter...Pieface the origins of his oath.

And the scary thing is...this isn't the worst thing Tom Kalmaku is called this time around.

In this continuation of the Greymoor Castle story, the mad scientist becomes a wuss baby, the hulking assistant is replaced by a Nazi commandant named Uberhart (Superheart?), and Cap looks like he has to poo while fighting Medieval Armor Nazis.  Plus, Jack Kirby is replaced by George Tuska, which causes the Baby Jesus to cry.

Okay, I made that last part up.

In this issue, Sinestro makes a bid to destroy the Guardians as we're deluged with wacky Lanterns from All Planets, and Sue Williams shows us why she may very well be the single most misguided woman in the DC Universe (the fact that she looks to Lois Lane for romantic advice might be an indicator...)

In this episode, a mad scientist with a steel hand, his guilty sister and some nameless goof plan to shrink Captain America down to size.  Literally.

Believe it or not, it's pretty good.

In this episode, Green Lantern is snatched away from battling a sea monster to the 58th century, given a new identity, and fights giant gila monsters who shrink people with their eyes.

I have no idea what John Broome was smoking, either.

In this episode, we look at the final part of the first Captain America three-parter, where The Red Skull abandons his plan to assassinate the allied commander by...well, telling some nameless Nazi thug to steal a vanishing ray.

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In this episode, Hal's nightmare turns Tom Kalmaku into a seagull, which interferes with the mechanic's roundevous with his childhood sweetheart.  Oh, and some guy named Sinestro makes his debut.

In this episode, we continue the first multipart adventure of Captain America during the World War Two throwback phase of the Silver Age.  It features a Cap who looks like he's stoned, Bucky disguised as a Hogan's Heroes character and a cowardly Adolph Hitler.

Tom's back with a landmark issue where Green Lantern meets Tomar Re and deals with the incredible menaces of The Thought-Rebels of Aku and The SmileySaurs.

Okay, so the SmileySaurs are less than incredible.

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It's a short one, but a significant one--namely the landmark story that reveals the Red Skull's origin.

It's Green Lantern's first full length adventure and, while Tom could talk about the plot, a new super-villian and the power ring reaching new levels of ridiculous power, but three words should be sufficient to get you to listen.

Monkey Green Lantern.

You know you have to.

In this episode, Captain America's greatest enemy, The Red Skull makes the scene back in 40's--albeit in a khaki jumpsuit and carrying Hot Water Brand Sleep Gas (It Does A Body Good!).

In this episode, Green Lantern travels to the evil dimension of Qward to fight a round-headed robot who's secretly good and finds his mask the target of a scavenger's hunt run by Carol.  Plus a mystery surrounding the artist--or artists involved in drawing a story.

We're still in that brief run where Captain America and Bucky are having WWII-set fun.  In this story, the Star-Spangled Duo face off against a midget with an oversized head, a man in a monocle and a slew of henchmen who look like gangsters, talk like gangsters...but are Nazis.

Apparently, these henchmen are very, very confused.

In this episode, Tom tries to keep a straight face as Green Lantern is so desperate to not get married that he consciously creates the Menace He Calls....Chiller Diller!  Plus the Emerald Guardian pursues two Qwardian Spies disguised as traveling salesmen.

In this episode, Tom examines a re-telling of Captain America's origin story, the beginning of the brief retro-Golden Age period of the series.

In this episode, Green Lantern encounters The Weaponers of Qward--the first in a long line of introductions that build the Lantern Corps Legend.  Oh, and Hal Jordan continually calls an Inuit mechanic 'Pieface while searching for a lost mine.

Well, that first story with the Weaponers is really cool.

In this episode, Captain America is hired to put on a demonstration of his fighting prowess just so evil men can attack....wait a minute!

At least it's got a villlian with a face far smaller than its head. 

In this episode, Green Lantern gets his own book after the Showcase tryout, and celebrates the new status quo...with a clip show.  But since this issue marks a new inker coming onboard to ink Gil Kane, it's a lot better than it appears!

Every once in a while, you get a dog...and in this episode, Tom wrestles with a story where Cap goes to Vietnam to fight a ruthless Japanese Sumo general in his Chinese palace while displaying his gootch.  It's a chore, you betcha.

In this episode, Tom looks at the third and final issue of the Green Lantern tryout, where Carol Ferris has marriage on her mind to a psychotic degree, Hal Jordan seems intent on calling some people 'dark faced', and we witness the debut of the menace men call--well, Tom calls--Chicken Head Mohawk.

In this episode, we continue our look at the early stories in the Captain America solo series, which features the introduction of a major enemy...who gets his revenge on Cap elsewhere, a Rick Jones who is at turns ignored and patronized, and the discovery that even bad guys love hearing Cap talk!

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In this episode, Tom looks at the second issue of the three part Green Lantern tryout in Showcase 23, where the Emerald Gladiator's first super villain is revealed to be a radiation-sucking empty suit, Carol tells Hal they can't be together before asking him to hook her up, and we learn the natural enemy of yellow pteradactyls from Venus.

In this episode, Tom begins his survey of the solo stories of Marvel's Star-Spangled Avenger, Captain America, with a story that features, well, lots of thugs in jumpsuits with crash helments.

A smaller podcast featuring Tom Deja sharing classic silver age runs with you, looking at them through modern eyes.  This episode begins a survey of the Emerald Guardian, the Hal Jordan Green Lantern, with his very first appearance in Showcase 22!  Come experience the first three adventures of the ring-slinger, and witness Tom's incredulous reaction to the Hal Jordan/Carol Ferris relationship.