#192: February 1973 (w/David F. Walker) - "Where Angels Fear to Tread!"

David F. Walker is one of the most prolific
writers working in comics today. His Marvel/20th Century
Planet of the Apes series (drawn by David
Wachter) launches in April, and his Eisner Award-winning
Bitter Root (co-written with Chuck Brown
and illustrated by Sanford Greene) just got a beautiful omnibus
edition of its first arc, published by Image Comics. And his
other Eisner-winning book, The Black Panther
Party (with artist Marcus Kwame Anderson), continues
to generate critical and commercial acclaim. Follow him on
Instagram to keep up with all of his
self-publishing projects, including 2020: Hard Time In
the Anarchist Jurisdiction, The BadAzz Mofo 25th Anniversary
Compendium & Toilet Reader, and
Imposter Syndrome.


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Stories Covered in this Episode: 


"Crescendo!" - Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #8, written by Steve
Englehart, art by George Tuska and Billy Graham, letters by John
Costanza, colors by Andrea Hunt, 1973 Marvel Comics


"Where Angels Fear to Tread!" - Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #9,
written by Steve Englehart, art by George Tuska and Billy Graham,
letters by Denise Vladimer, colors by Stan Goldberg, 1973 Marvel
Comics


 


"Marvel by the Month" theme v. 3.0 by Robb
Milne, sung by Barb Allen. All
incidental music by Robb Milne.


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