Welcome to episode 23 of SUPERMAN & BATMAN, featuring your two favorite heroes in one podcast together!
The show’s premise is simple: Each episode, host Michael Bradley celebrates seven decades of the World’s Finest heroes by looking at stories featuring the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight, chosen at random mostly from the pages of World’s Finest Comics.
“The Dream Bomb”
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION: World’s Finest Comics #232 (cover date September 1975)
WHAT TO EXPECT: Superman and Batman fight Dr. McDreamy, except that he’s bald, Asian, a monk and in no way whatsoever anything like Patrick Dempsey!
ALSO FEATURING: Third-act exposition, more third-act exposition and Macho Man Randy Savage!
PLUS: A rundown of the book’s other contents, a look at what else was on the stands!
DOWNLOAD: Directly or via iTunes
Subscribe to the show via iTunes or the RSS Feed! Got questions or comments? Additions or corrections? How about a story suggestion? Drop a line! Share your thoughts on the episode and the issue. Seriously, I want to hear from listeners. You also can connect with show on Facebook and Twitter to send feedback and get show updates!
Superman & Batman is a proud member of the Superman Podcast Network. And don’t forget to visit the Superman Homepage!
[…] DOWNLOAD: GreatKrypton.com […]
Hey Michael,
As someone who now knows how difficult it can be to write a synopsis for a podcast, I never envy you when you cover a Bob Haney story. You get two trade paperbacks worth of story in 32 pages, and some of it is just straight from Crazy Town. But the fun side of Crazy Town, mind you.
Sorry to see the frequency of the show slow down a bit, but I understand completely where you are coming from. Looking forward to your guest spots and future endeavors.
You mentioned Batman Family not quite succeeding like Superman Family. Well, it kind of did. You probably know this, but Batman Family originally alternated between new material and all reprint issues at first, and then went all-new at one point. It then got upgraded into one of DC’s Dollar Comics. Then the DC Implosion hit. Needing to slash titles, DC actually considered keeping the successful Batman Family and axing Detective Comics, until someone with a cooler head suggested basically merging the two titles, essentially turning Batman Family, with it’s Dollar Format, into Detective. It carried on in this format for about two more years before converting back to a regular-sized comic.
Chris
Do we know if Da-Ghiri the snow devil appeared at any point? I get the feeling DC could do an ongoing series on story threads that Bob Haney started!