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DC SpecialCast #9 – Secret Origins of Doctor Fate, Black Canary, and Lightray!

September 07, 2025

G’Day, Mate! This month, Paul welcomes Australian podcaster Brento3000 to DC SpecialCast! Our Patreon supporters spoke, and we listened!  Brent and Paul cover DC Special Series #10: Secret Origins of Super-Heroes! This comic has origins of Doctor Fate, Black Canary, and Lightray. We had a great time talking about it and Australian reprints of American comics, so give it a listen!

This month’s instocktrades.com selections:

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https://www.instocktrades.com/products/feb257256/doctor-fate-by-jm-dematteis-tp

For Australian reprints, check out: https://ausreprints.net.au/issue/1509/9430

For Mike Vosburg: https://vozart.com/

And for the Secret Origins episode originally covering this comic:

https://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/secret-origins-redux-1-doctor-fate-lightray-and-black-canary/

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September 07, 2025

JLUCast Destroyer

July 28, 2025

This is it! Chris and Cindy cover the series finale of Justice League Unlimited! Darkseid leads a full-scale invasion of Earth. Can the combined might of the entire Justice League and the Legion of Doom stop the despot from turning Earth into another Apokolips? Special appearance by the FW All-Stars!

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Clips from Justice League Unlimited “Destroyer” music by Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion, and Kristopher Carter. Theme by Kristopher Carter.

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JLUCast ALIVE!

June 30, 2025

The Outcaster’s Tim Price joins Chris & Cindy to discuss Part One of JLU’s two-part series finale, “Alive!”. Lex Luthor’s search for Brainiac leads to a deadly civil war amongst the Legion of Doom! But just when Lex thinks he’s finally revived Brainiac…enter DARKSEID!!!

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Clips from Justice League Unlimited “Alive!”, music by Lolita Ritmanis, theme by Kristopher Carter.

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FW Presents Super Powers: The Legendary 40th Anniversary Show, Part 3

August 19, 2024

It’s the final part of our Super Powers 40th anniversary celebration! Join Chris, Shag, Derek and David as they talk about the three Super Powers comic miniseries, featuring the work of Paul Kupperberg, Carmine Infantino, and Jack “King” Kirby’s take on the DC Universe!

Then we wrap up the discussion with how the legacy of the Super Powers toys and media have impacted the DC Universe, later toy lines, and pop culture, including the current McFarlane Toys line! All this, and a special personal story about what Super Powers means to blogger and actor Steve Givens!

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Guest Links:

Derek William Crabbe’s Fanholes Podcast

David Gallaher’s Amazon Author Page

Steve Given’s “It’s a Givens” Blog

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Clip credits:

Music and clips from Kid Stuff See and Read Video Book, Super Powers: Battle at the Earth’s Core, and various seasons of Super Friends/Super Powers, by Hoyt Curtin. Special thanks to Isamu Hidekai Yukinori and Xum Yukinori.

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FW Presents Super Powers: The Legendary 40th Anniversary Show Part 1

August 05, 2024

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Super Powers toy line and related tie-in media, host Chris Franklin has assembled his own team of Super Friends! FW All-Star the Irredeemable Shag is joined by the Fanholes Podcast Network’s Derek William Crabbe and Harvey-Award Winning Author David Gallaher to discuss this exciting era of the DC Comics legacy across all media! In the first of this three-part weekly mini-series, the panel talks about the heart of the phenomenon: The Kenner action figure line! Plus, FW co-founder Rob Kelly waxes nostalgic on his love of the toys as well!

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Guest Links:

Derek William Crabbe’s Fanholes Podcast

David Gallaher’s Amazon Author Page

Super Powers resources:

  • Super Powers Wiki
  • Kenner Super Powers.com
  • Action Figure Insider Super Powers Archive
  • Unproduced Super Powers figures and concepts at Action Figure Insider
  • Colombia’s Super Powers/Defenders of the Earth line from Gulliver
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Clip credits:

Music from various seasons of Super Friends/Super Powers, by Hoyt Curtain. Special hanks to Isamu Hidekai Yukinori and Xum Yukinori.

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Who's Hot and Who's Not? Ep.13: Black Lightning to Black Racer

September 26, 2023

An electrifying high school teacher. Aqua Baby’s killer. A mistress of disguise. A 16th-Century pirate. Death on skis. Which are hot, which are not? The Girls of the Hot Squad begin their assessment of Who’s Who #3’s entries based on sheer datability.

Featuring permanent panelists Elyse, Isabel, Nathalie, Josée, Shotgun, and Amélie.

Listen to Episode 13 below (the usual mature language warnings apply), or subscribe to the feed on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

Relevant images and further credits at: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not ep.13 Supplemental

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Who's Hot and Who's Not Ep.13 Supplemental

September 26, 2023

Here are the relevant images from this episode of Who’s Hot and Who’s Not?

You can follow along! Here are the characters we cover in this episode.

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JLUCast The Ties That Bind

April 03, 2023

Chris and Cindy discuss JLU Season 2 episode 2, “The Ties That Bind” featuring the return of The Flash, on a mission to Apokolips with Mister Miracle and Big Barda to save Oberon! Plus the villainy of Granny Goodness, Kalibak and Virman Vunderbar! This episode is Krackling with Kirby!

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Clip credits:

Clips from Justice League Unlimited “The Ties That Bind”, music by Lolita Ritmanis, theme by Michael McCuistion

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Who's Editing #16: Night of the Editors

April 12, 2022

Siskoid welcomes guest editor Steve Givens to take on issue 16 of Who’s Who (Mr. Terrific to Nightmaster) and reinvent its heroic entries as an entirely new line of books. Siskoid does too, but goes off the rails into an alternate reality where Disney has purchased DC Comics!

Listen to Episode 16 below or subscribe to Who’s Editing? on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

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Credits:
Theme: “Révolution” by Les Sherpas.

Bonus clips: “Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30” by Strauss; Ron Marz talking to Sobrecapa YouTube channel in 2020.

Thanks for leaving a comment to the editors!

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