Return Of The Bollocksfish
Hello, and welcome to episode 248 of The Fantasticast. Each week, Steve Lacey and Andy Leyland guide you through every issue, guest-appearance and cameo of The Fantastic Four.
Today, we peer through the windows into a strange parallel world of what might have been. For, none save The Fantasticasters (and their guest) can truly know what could have happened, but for the invisible workings of an incomprehensible fate. Today, we answer the question, What If Spider-Man Had Joined The Fantastic Four, as we read What If? #1.
We're joined by our episode image designer Sam Savage to look at the first of many Marvel titles devoted to the alternate worlds where history took a different turn. Roy Thomas, Jim Craig, and Pablo Marcos come together to retell and revise Fantastic Four and Marvel history. Will The Watcher's narration irritate us all? Will the Earth explode? Will we spend too long recapping fight scenes that have little-to-no bearing on the plot? Find out, as we enter Earth-772!
We also take some time at the start of the episode to pay tribute to Len Wein, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this week.
Sam can be found on instagram as slpsavage92
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Original artwork by Michael Georgiou. Check out his work at mikedraws.co.uk
Episode cover design by Samuel Savage.
Episode 234: Marvel Two-in-One #18 - Dark, Dark Demon-Night!
Episode 233: Fantastic Four #173 - Counter-Earth Must Die At The Hands Of Galactus!
Episode 232: Marvel Team-Up #47 - I Must Fight The Basilisk
Episode 231: Marvel Two-in-One #17 - This City Afire!
Episode 230: Fantastic Four #172 - Cry, The Bedeviled Planet
Episode 229: Marvel Two-in-One #16 / Super Villain Team-Up #6
Episode 228: Fantastic Four Annual #11 - And Then The Invaders
Episode 227: Fantastic Four #171 - Death Is A Golden Gorilla
Episode 226: Marvel Two-in-One #15 - The Return Of The Living Eraser
Episode 225: Fantastic Four #170 - A Sky Full Of Fear
Episode 224: Super-Villain Team-Up #5 - ...And Be A Villain!
Episode 223: Fantastic Four #169 - Five Characters In Search Of A Madman
Episode 222: Marvel Two-in-One #14 - Ghost Town
Episode 221: Fantastic Four #168 - Where Have All The Powers Gone?
Episode 220: Fantastic Four #167 - Titans Two
Episode 219: Marvel Two-in-One #13 - I Created Braggadoom, The Mountain That Walked Like A Man
Episode 218: Fantastic Four #166 - If It's Tuesday, It Must Be The Hulk
Episode 217: Marvel Team-Up #40 - Murder's Better The Second Time Around
Episode 216: Fantastic Four #165 - The Light of Other Worlds
Episode 215: Marvel Two-in-One #12 - The Stalker In The Sands
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