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We are now producing a new Bowery Boys podcast every two weeks. The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast is brought to you …. Tom and Greg from their 2014 visit to the Marvel Comics offices in Midtown. In this episode, Greg actually speaks about the Bowery Boys episode about comics and shares his own experiences with reading comic books as a kid.įind this show here or on your favorite podcast player. To get this week’s episode, download it for free from your preferred podcast player.ĪND after you’re done listening to this history on comic books in New York City, check out Greg’s appearance on an episode of This Week In Marvel, the official Marvel Comics podcast hosted by Ryan “Agent M” Penagos, James Monroe Iglehart, and Lorraine Cink. Sanderson is the author of The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City and The Marvel Encyclopedia.įEATURING: The Yellow Kid, Little Orphan Annie, Batman, Doctor Strange, the Watchmen and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! WITH a special chat with comics historian Peter Sanderson about the unique New York City connections of Marvel Comics’ most famous characters. Unfortunately that meant they were in certain danger of being eliminated entirely during a 1950s witch hunt by a crusading psychiatrist from Bellevue Hospital named Frederic Wertham. For many decades, nearly all of America’s comic books were produced here.

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