47 min listen
S1E12 - 12: The Battle of the Baxter Building (with Jeet Heer)
S1E12 - 12: The Battle of the Baxter Building (with Jeet Heer)
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
May 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Jeet Heer--national affairs correspondent for "The Nation," master of intellectually omnivorous Twitter threads, and Jack Kirby scholar--joins Douglas Wolk to discuss Fantastic Four #39 and 40. Topics include Doctor Doom as Hobbes' Leviathan, Kirby's personal background and how it informed Fantastic Four's characters, the proto-Doom in Challengers of the Unknown #4, the Inhumans' story as an allegory for Jewish assimilation, and the F.F. as a Kennedy-era Democratic coalition.
Released:
May 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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