Worst Collection Ever

Journey Into Mystery [vol 2] #12 (1974)Its October so we are going hardcore on spooky and monster-related books. To kick it off, we jump into JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY which has nothing to do with Thor and friends. This run was an anthology series that collected old Marvel and Atlas fantasy stories.In this particular issue, the writer of ZOMBIE ZOO falls victim to a vampiric Smurf; a genie grants a nihilistic child unlimited wishes; a Spencer’s Gifts gimmick sphere predicts George Costanza’s wife’s death; and a millionaire jokester terrorizes party guests with his Gremlins pneumatic chair. Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Eclipso #6 (1993)Its about damn time we got back to some Eclipso. In this issue of his ongoing, Eclipso takes over the body of Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy and harasses the crap out of Bruce and Mona. The Creeper is there as well, only to make puns and get stabbed. Later, Eclipso tries to figure out some sort of convoluted poisoned cocaine scheme that will some how screw over Brazil or the US (?). Honestly, it shows he has no idea how to handle the yayo and has probably never seen SCARFACE.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Fallen Angels #5 (1987)FALLEN ANGELS is NOT a comic about all the wayward daughters that Brett Michaels sang about. It’s basically a Sunspot back door pilot where he putzes around with the techno alien Warlock in (I think) the Bowery, joining up the Vanisher and soon-to-be X-Force randoms Siryn and Boom Boom to commit petty crimes. Bobby’s not into it though so in this issue we just focus on Devil Dinosaur getting loose and some cyborg kid that looks like Peter Billingsley attempting to corral her cybernetic lobsters. Spoiler: one of the lobsters die, but not by being eaten.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Doom Patrol #117 (1968)The Doom Patrol split up their group early on here because Niles is too preoccupied with women whilst Robotman lies around looking like Anakin Skywalker on Mustafar and Negative Man suffers from ham deprivation. The minute they all leave, Clint Howard in a purple chicken costume arrives to attack a crippled man with an army of violent hummingbirds. Treachery persists until Doom Patrol is bailed out by a bunch of West Coast Native Americans riding Fire Mares. You know, those horses from KRULL.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Spectacular Spider-Man #135 (1988)In one of his rare comic book appearances, the ever-affable Regis Philbin welcomes partially reformed serial killer Sin-Eater on his show, preceded by Mary Jane Watson modeling women’s fashion from the Gold Circle fall catalog. Peter Parker recovers from intense electrical burns enough to support his wife, only to get verbally embarrassed by a donut-fueled Electro.We also talk a lot about pizza in this episode.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

World’s Finest Comics #233 (1975)As promised, we dig into a Super Sons book this week as Superman Jr. and Batman Jr. Jr. roll into a town of independent women only to get thrown in jail for trying to be groovy. Later, Superman Jr. Jr. Jr. carries Batman Jr. the IV in one hand over his head like a waiter in a restaurant (ass-to-palm) to battle an alien who hates mirrors. This story ends with Batman Jr. to the Fifth Power tongue-kissing an entire town of traumatized women. Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

X-Men [vol 2] #31 (1994)Much like the Bluths, the X-Men Blue team believes that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Join us this week as Gambit cooks up some morning gruel just so he can taunt Rogue that he ate it all while wearing tiny shorts. Also, Archangel and Psylocke get themselves some cappuccino and crash a car. Even Beast gets in on the brunch action with some morning coffee whilst hanging from a titanium ceiling fan. There’s also this whole drama between Psylocke and the gal whose body she took over after the whole Siege Perilous business. It gets tragic AF.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

DC Comics Presents #70 (1984)Superman teams up with the Metal Men which is really strange because Superman hates robots. Thankfully, Clark is able to suppress his boiling hatred for machine men and team up with them to defeat a technologically gifted doomsday prepper. Also, Marc Maron shows up and attempts a heist in an air balloon.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #77 (1988)Yo Joe! The Joes have been ensnared in a government cover-up on Cobra Island as Fake Cobra Commander and Serpentor battle it out. Serpentor lost though so that means Dr. Mindbender can go full Krieger from ARCHER with his dead body. As for the Joes, they chill with some Vipers to watch a cat fight between Lady Jaye and Zarana. Meanwhile, Destro wears a Speedo on a boat in the Caribbean while Roadblock run from the Feds. And since its 1988 and we are in mad grinder mode, Zartan steps away from the action to open for classic self-titled era Danzig. Sadly, Chuck Biscuits was never inducted into the Dreadnoks (but should have been).Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

We got you covered with another round of DC Comics Mad Libs:Princess Diana hones her oxen hunting skills with Peter Jennings on Paradise Garage!The Justice League uses their pinky toes to overcome Dr. Light’s moist darkness!The Magenta Speedster sends Heatwave and Captain Cold to the Moon!Tearduct trauma with Green Lantern and Sinestro!Also, we read some of your correspondence from social media and via email!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Blackhawk #263 (1983)It’s some wild and crazy Nazi punching action with Blackhawk and his merry band of military men. In this issue, Blackhawk and his lady nemesis Domino try to outsmart some villains on the set of CASABLANCA. Meanwhile, the Blackhawk crew fights the War Wheel in Spain and it gets stuck in some sand because beaches.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

The Brave and The Bold #123 (1975)We just had to go back to the Bob Haney well because this book is just too ridiculous for us to wait on. Bruce Wayne goes on vacation to Turkey so in his place is a freshly de-vagranted Plastic Man posting as Batman. Plas does a great job too, orchestrating a hostage rescue by having a cross-dressing policeman throw a grenade in a bank deposit box.Things take a turn when Bruce Wayne is charged with murder and Metamorpho poses as his lawyer. Plastic Man as Batman gets brainwashed by some lady into being a heel, only for the devilish woman to constantly try to poison his tea.Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Warlock and the Infinity Watch #29 (1994)Not gonna lie…this is a slog of a book. The finish is given away on the cover and it takes the full twenty-two pages to tell something that really only should have taken four.Thankfully, we have a guest in professional wrestler / comedian / comic book writer RAVEN. He’s awesome and he’s here to help us decipher this Jim Starlin tale of Adam Warlock getting drunk after one sip of whine while a man with no nose watches. There’s also this She-Ra/Nick Fury chick that’s causing all the trouble while Gamora gets all cranky. If Jim Starlin wrote THREE’S COMPANY, it’d be this comic.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Also, please check out Raven’s podcast THE RAVEN EFFECT over at Westwood One:https://apple.co/2IRBueY Follow Raven on Twitter:https://twitter.com/theraveneffectAnd please support former WWE/WCW superstar Perry Saturn on GoFundMe:https://www.gofundme.com/PerrySaturnaliaEmail the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Sha

Blue Beetle [vol 1] #21 (1988)Its a Millennium crossover! Blue Beetle and Mister Miracle return from a JLI meeting where the heroes determine the best course of action to beat the Manhunters is to burn a hole into the earth. Mister Miracle watches Supermarket Sweep on Lifetime in the Bug while Ted goes up to his office and pretends to work.Later, a rejected 90’s G.I. JOE character ambushes Ted and Miracle while they prep a giant ball of metal to burn into the earth. They were dead serious about this. Escapes and what not ensue because Mother Boxes.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Justice League of America #186 (1981)So, Elongated Man gets monitor duty on the JLA Satellite and makes a peanut butter & swiss cheese sandwich because apparently he can bend his stomach so he doesn’t throw up. Or maybe he’s just one of those guys who do that thing you would do in high school where you would down ALL the condiments mixed today because you’re the resident crazy kid.Anyway, some Russians show up to ask the JLA for help with the Shaggy Man who is currently terrorizing Moscow. Eventually, they throw Shaggy Man into space because space is the landfill we forget that we have.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Captain America #434 (1994)Jack Flag’s parents were strong-armed out of their home by the Serpent Society who’ve decided the smart criminal money is in Arizona real estate scams. So, Jack dyes his hair like a rocket pop, rigs up a JVC boombox to shoot lasers and offers up his non-snake related persona to the Serpent Society like some completely obvious Trojan horse. Snakes are dumb though so they let him in.Meanwhile, Cap fights a fit gal wearing a patriotic one-strapper for, no lie, SEVEN HOURS. Also, Captain America is dying. He got the results of the test back. He definitely has breast cancer.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

The Brave and the Bold #79 (1968)Its about time we go WAY back and it also happens to be our first Deadman-centric book, which is shocking. Thankfully for us (and for you the listener), this book is peak Bob Haney so its out of its mind.Deadman decides to solicit Batman’s help in finding his hooked-handed killer and it JUST HAPPENS that some dude in Gotham is running around murdering folks over pachinko machines WEARING A HOOK! HOT DAMN! But…to the surprise of no one, this leads to Batman going on a murderous rampage as he is inclined to do. No one is safe.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

TekWorld #1 (1992)We just can’t get out of this year of 1992, can we? Eh, its ok. That was the year WAYNE’S WORLD came out. It was a good year.In TEKWORLD, William Shatner creates a buff avatar for himself, a former cop named Jake Cardigan, disgraced by getting hooked on Tek, a VR drug that makes you relive the entirety of HBO’s ENTOURAGE. He goes to space jail, gets unfrozen in the future by a robot with a real attitude problem. Life’s changed so he takes on a gig as a private eye where he must find a falsely anorexic woman trapped in Mexico by Garth Brooks 2099. Got all that? Then at the end, a vagrant explodes. This is the best book ever.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Black Condor #1 (1992)Its the pride of the New Jersey wilderness, the Black Condor, this week as we dig in on this random, Primal Force hero’s book. This is not to be confused with the Black Condor that was a human baby who was raised by actual condors to legit fly and go on to impersonate a Congressman. No, this Black Condor was a genetically engineered by his grandfather Abe Vigoda and hangs out in the Jersey wilderness taking down crooks that look like Tom Savini.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation with Shawn and Jen on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield

Secret Weapons #4 (1993)Its our first foray into the Valiant Comics universe and surprisingly, its not an issue of ARCHER & ARMSTRONG seeing how every dollar box ever in any comic book store is 50% ARCHER & ARMSTRONG. ARCHER & ARMSTRONG is like ALPHA FLIGHT but its wearing a newsie cap.No, this week we cover SECRET WEAPONS, which is supposed to be Valiant’s AVENGERS-esque title but the main hitters (Solar, Ninjak) are only there for a minute while we fart around with the other geeks. This issue focuses on Stronghold, a mass-absorbing Hank Pym lookalike that gets so huge that he takes a nap in the East River. Also, a scientist eats a brain like that heart-eating doctor in JASON GOES TO HELL and a group of thugs get punted to death.Please rate, review, subscribe and tell a friend!Email the podcast at worstcollectionever@gmail.comContinue the conversation on Twitter @angryheroshawn and @JenStansfield