Ep.56 – Phoenix No. 1 (1975)

This time on the Couch: Mike, James, and Shée put on their finest long-sleeved polos to read 1975's Phoenix no. 1! In the 1970s, Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman decided to start up a new comics company, but this time populate it with boring, generic nobodies to see if that would work. The old Goodman Charm couldn't keep Atlas/Seaboard Comics afloat and it folded in about a year. What went wrong? Editorial mismanagement? External economic factors? Or was it that books like Phoenix were so dull kids fell asleep just from touching them? Meanwhile Shée receives no quarter for her complaints about primates, and how did a bunch of aliens end up with Jon Arbuckle's wardrobe anyway?

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