Hosted by Dr. Bobb · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 330 episodes
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From February, 1966 through August, 1967, DC Comics branded all their publications with a checkerboard masthead, lovingly known as "Go-Go Checks". Because, you know, the 60s. With the help of his husband and intrepid friends, Dr. Bobb will examine each of these issues in depth and tell you what you need to know!
Dr. Bobb hosts Checkered Past, a arts show with 330 episodes published.
Krypto reveals his heretofore unknown side gig as a PhD (Dog-ter of Philosophy). Superman werstles for charity! And Supergirl is caught (*gasp*) CHEATING! It's all right here in Action Comics #349! Chapters (00:00:00) -
A gang of interstellar elites make it their business to elaborately prank the Boy of Steel, but nothing they do can top Superboy's own elaborate prank of (checks notes) flying 24 hours into the future to fake his entire
Sugar and Spike get big (and small!) and thwart a nefarious spy ring, AND Stanley's Monster gets some bonding time with dad while Stanley deals with the school bully! All right here in Sugar and Spike #70 and The Fox and
Zook returns! Robby enters puberty! And Dr. Bobb gets a dream cat! It's all right here in House of Mystery #166! Chapters (00:00:00) - House of Mystery 166(00:01:30) - The Cougar Man(00:02:28) - Ghost Sakama G(00:03:48)
Forsooth! Brave knights of the realm fight tremendous beasts most savage - but not nigh as savage as the idiot teens of Laurel High! It's all-out moronoc action in Swing with Scooter #6 and Star-Spangled War Stories #132
The Metal Men, famously a team, inexplicable eschew teamwork in a battle with retruning foe Chemo! With Doc in a coma, can Gold get these rascally robots whipped into shape? Fine out in Metal Men #25! Chapters (00:00:00)
Dr. Husband hosts high tea then drops some deep Love Boat lore! Dr. Bobb enthusiastically defends physical media! PLUS Bob Haney pens a story featuring Native Americans, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? It's all right here
Space exploration! Nuclear annihilation! And the greatest season of broadcast television in history! It's all right here in Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #73! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - Superman's Girlfr
It's an 80-Page Giant! The Flash stars in a trio of mediocre stories facing his mildly annoying foes! Dr. Husband learns about Gorilla City AND Skartaris in a single sitting! PLUS for the first time, Cap'n Butler does NO
The "exciting" new Blackhawk era is in full swing! Chopping! Leaping! Liquid Gold! PLUS Time Machine Mailbag AND Irene Vartanoff! It's all right here in Blackhawk #231! Chapters (00:00:00) - Black Hawk #231(00:02:22) - H
Mademoiselle Marie has a problem, and frankly General J.E.B. Stuart is being VERY stingy with the information she needs. PLUS Judy Bland gets a helping hand from the Green Glob, Dr. Bobb complains abouty the weather, Dr.
Wonder Woman thought Steve being all hands was bad enough, but wait til she gets a load of the CRimson Centipede! PLUS, casting an imaginary 1945 Wonder Woman movie, Time Machine Mailbag, Dr. Husband learns about the Ama
It's one thing to destroy Superman, Supergirl, the bottle city of Kandor, and all Kryptonian intellectual property, but KRYPTO MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS! Find out all about it right here with Superman #195! Chapters
Are you sitting down, dear listener? A Bob Hope comic that we actually LIKED, before we delve into a surprisingly serious discussion of generational racism. Fun! It's all right here in The Adventures of Bob Hope #104 and
The Earth, under threat! Don't worry, the Challengers are up to the task, despite their criminal fashion sense. Or ARE they?!? Find out in Challengers of the Unknown #55! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - Checker
Ray and Jean join their nature club (with special guests Sonny and Cher) for some innocent spelunking, when Ray runs into some old, tiny friends! Tiny friends with BATS! Can even the Atom save them from the fearsome SONI
Batman and Robin face good ol' Cold War intrigue and Dr. Bobb lays out his crime-fighting requirements. PLUS Ralph Dibny returns to his roots! It's all right here in Detective Comics #361! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(0
SuperMAN visits his old pals in the Legion, now all grown up! Dr. Bobb tries to extemporaneously regurgitate Legion trivia from his tired old brain! Plus plenty of the pet minutiae you've come to depend on! It's all righ
The FBI needs help, and there's only one person in America who can provide it - Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper! PLUS Supergirl has roomate problems. BEEN THERE, GIRL. It's all right
Batman and Superman, evil crime lords dividing the world between them? Immortal Man, fighting super-apes on the eve of his wedding? Dr. Bobb, still bitter over an imagined slight 40 years ago? It's all right here, in Wor
husband
oral surgeon · Brown University
2 appearances on this show
Cher
mental health therapist, author, speaker, coach, discomfort seeker
1 appearance on this show
Sonny
business attorney · Satya Health
1 appearance on this show
Henry Winkler
from "The Fonz" to New York Times Bestseller
1 appearance on this show
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