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S1E12 - 12: The Battle of the Baxter Building (with Jeet Heer)

S1E12 - 12: The Battle of the Baxter Building (with Jeet Heer)

FromVoice of Latveria


S1E12 - 12: The Battle of the Baxter Building (with Jeet Heer)

FromVoice of Latveria

ratings:
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

Titles in the series (30)

Comics critic Douglas Wolk ("All of the Marvels") and guests take a weekly trip through the Marvel Comics history of Doctor Doom: hero of Latveria, master of science and sorcery, roboticist supreme, and arch-rival of the Fantastic Four's accursed Reed Richards. The Voice of Latveria is a project of the Cynthia Von Doom Memorial Foundation. Our motto: "We will always tell you the truth... as Doom sees it."