Checkered Past

Dr. Bobb
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From February, 1966 through August, 1967, DC Comics branded all their publications with a checkerboard masthead, lovingly known as "Go-Go Checks". Because, you know, the 60s. With the help of his husband and intrepid friends, Dr. Bobb will examine each of these issues in depth and tell you what you need to know!

  1. 3d ago

    The Blind Leading the Blind (Superboy 137)

    A gang of interstellar elites make it their business to elaborately prank the Boy of Steel, but nothing they do can top Superboy's own elaborate prank of (checks notes) flying 24 hours into the future to fake his entire family's death and also pretend to be blind. It's a laff riot, all right here in Superboy #137! Chapters (00:00:00) - Superboy 137(00:02:52) - Spring cleaning in the house(00:04:57) - In the world of managerial accounting(00:06:46) - Boring job costing class(00:09:59) - Flute Concert and Guitar(00:11:17) - Oh, My Love Boat!(00:12:06) - Ashes in the Carpet(00:14:18) - How to Create Go Go Check Comics Covers(00:16:21) - milo on The Comeback and For All Mankind(00:19:31) - The Montreal Canadiens(00:19:43) - Superboy in the New Home...(00:22:49) - Martin Gray on Biscuits Flavored Tea(00:24:04) - How Smallville Stands Up to Earthquakes(00:26:54) - When Superboy Needs To Travel Back In Time(00:30:25) - Superman and Clark Kent: The Alternate Lives(00:34:50) - The Boy Who Says He's Blind(00:35:23) - How To Pass as Superboy in Smallville(00:37:22) - How My Great Grandmother Met Her husband(00:38:34) - Superboy(00:41:14) - Chuck Kendall switches to Superboy after witnessing bank robbery(00:45:20) - Super baby from Krypton is featured in this week's podcast(00:47:02) - Baby Found in the Basement of Smallville(00:50:57) - Strawberry Scratches on a Television Set(00:53:52) - Superboy: Build a Children's Zoo(00:58:27) - Tarzan: A Super Genius(01:00:06) - Clark Kent: On Becoming Superboy(01:04:20) - Superboy meets Old Man on Geryon(01:07:01) - Superboy(01:11:06) - Superboy And The Kryptonian Fabric

    1h 14m

  2. May 22

    Honey We Blew Up the Babies (Sugar & Spike 70/Fox and Crow 103)

    Sugar and Spike get big (and small!) and thwart a nefarious spy ring, AND Stanley's Monster gets some bonding time with dad while Stanley deals with the school bully! All right here in Sugar and Spike #70 and The Fox and the Crow #103! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - Sugar and Spike(00:04:09) - The Little Mermaid Music Director's Birthday(00:04:48) - The Best Day of My Life...(00:08:06) - Tiny Toy Ideas(00:13:01) - The Secret Life of Spies(00:17:43) - Charlie Brown and the Spy(00:20:45) - Mrs. White on Mother's Day(00:22:52) - The Secret Life of Spies(00:28:20) - Baby Giants Go to the Dollhouse(00:29:15) - Counterespionage Society(00:31:01) - Sheldon Mayer(00:33:10) - Magazines & Monsters(00:34:09) - Stanley And His Monster(00:38:33) - How Mean Was My Teacher In High School?(00:39:25) - Stanley's Sister Against A Bullie(00:43:07) - The Tale of Stanley the Gnome and Leprechaun(00:45:00) - The Monster Is Stanley's Dog(00:47:35) - The Ghost and the Monster(00:50:39) - Stanley And His Monster Story Review

    53 min

  3. May 11

    Sockamagee! A Girl! (House of Mystery 166)

    Zook returns! Robby enters puberty! And Dr. Bobb gets a dream cat! It's all right here in House of Mystery #166! Chapters (00:00:00) - House of Mystery 166(00:01:30) - The Cougar Man(00:02:28) - Ghost Sakama G(00:03:48) - Continuation Commencement(00:05:34) - Julie Walters on Her Dream About Cats(00:06:58) - Celebrations of Commencement Day(00:09:04) - I'm Going Camping Tomorrow(00:10:41) - Robbie Reed Is Turning Puberty in Littleville(00:13:11) - The Revenge of the Cougar Man(00:16:33) - Yankee Doodle Kid vs. Cougar Man(00:21:32) - How to Become the King of the Curses(00:24:01) - The Curse of the Albatross(00:28:31) - The Southport Anchor Monument(00:29:26) - Super Chief vs The Albatross(00:34:31) - Robbie Reed in '(00:34:49) - Mailbag: Time Machine Mailbag(00:35:08) - Dear Dr. Bob(00:39:36) - The Time Machine Mail Bag(00:39:58) - The Manhunter(00:44:54) - Marco Xavier(00:46:02) - The Manhunter from Mars(00:47:23) - The Martian Manhunter vs Vulture(00:51:58) - Black Panther vs. Manhunter(00:52:26) - Mars Martian Manhunter vs Vulture(00:55:18) - How To Win A Full Size Gemini Spacecraft

    59 min

  4. May 3

    The Play's the Thing (Scooter 6/ Star-Spangled War Stories 132)

    Forsooth! Brave knights of the realm fight tremendous beasts most savage - but not nigh as savage as the idiot teens of Laurel High! It's all-out moronoc action in Swing with Scooter #6 and Star-Spangled War Stories #132! Chapters (00:00:00) - Checkered Past(00:03:34) - Teens walking around in the cold(00:06:45) - The Secret to Traveling(00:07:01) - The Grades Are In(00:09:27) - The Real Life of Acting(00:12:50) - Scooter the Ghost in Hamlet(00:13:56) - Letteres Gets Called Out in "The New Yorker"(00:14:33) - The Secret Life of Scooter(00:18:36) - The Lighting in Hamlet(00:20:52) - The Hamlet Play(00:22:17) - The Kids in Hamlet(00:24:40) - In the Elevator With Ms. Bluff(00:25:18) - Kenny the Beatnik Bashes His Head Open(00:27:29) - The Comedy of Hamlet(00:32:53) - The Statue Made With Peanut Butter(00:33:16) - Scooter Comics: The Evolution(00:34:39) - Star Spangled War Stories: Private War in the Big House of(00:36:39) - Jerry Conway and Len Strazewski(00:38:22) - Jackie Blaine vs Nick Tardy(00:41:50) - Little Songs for Kids(00:45:54) - Jackie and Nick in Land of the Lost(00:50:28) - Nick Trapped In The Big House Of Monsters

    55 min

  5. Apr 22

    My Chemical Romance (Metal Men 25)

    The Metal Men, famously a team, inexplicable eschew teamwork in a battle with retruning foe Chemo! With Doc in a coma, can Gold get these rascally robots whipped into shape? Fine out in Metal Men #25! Chapters (00:00:00) - Checkered Past(00:00:56) - Metal Men(00:02:06) - The whole building smells like holly berry spray(00:05:53) - Lay People in the Summer(00:07:41) - Metal Men(00:10:12) - The Life of Doctors: Robots(00:13:14) - Gold, Iron and Tin(00:15:44) - Rescuers on a Fire Escape(00:18:16) - Seaman rescues a man from the sea(00:18:55) - Marine trivia(00:20:58) - Dear Editor: You Should Be Fired(00:22:06) - Metal Men(00:24:03) - Chemical Man(00:27:24) - The Battle of Chemo(00:30:38) - Memory of Meltable Wax(00:32:47) - Gold Putting Tyn and Nameless Back Together(00:33:27) - In the Ocean: A Submarine Drama(00:36:25) - The Metal Men vs Keemo(00:39:03) - Metal Men: To the End!

    43 min

  6. Apr 15

    Indian Givers (Brave and Bold 71)

    Dr. Husband hosts high tea then drops some deep Love Boat lore! Dr. Bobb enthusiastically defends physical media! PLUS Bob Haney pens a story featuring Native Americans, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? It's all right here in The Brave and the Bold #71! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - The Brave and The Bold(00:02:06) - Teachers' high tea(00:05:32) - DVD box sets(00:06:08) - The History of The Love Boat(00:08:35) - The Legend Of Green Arrow(00:11:15) - Favorite TV Shows Of The 1980's(00:14:32) - The Dazzling in Dallas(00:15:41) - Green Arrow vs Batman(00:17:23) - Tom Tall Wolf In The Limo(00:22:03) - Batman Against John White Bird(00:24:29) - The Kiowa Chief's Contest(00:26:36) - Batman Training Tom Tall Wolf for the Chieftain Contest(00:30:42) - The Old Guy In The Cane(00:33:07) - Batman Has Recruited Green Arrow(00:36:11) - The Chief of the Kajoas(00:40:37) - The Secret of the Thunderbird(00:41:21) - Batman on the Keoah(00:42:09) - The Dark Arrow vs. Thunderbird(00:46:50) - Green Arrow(00:48:21) - Tall Wolf vs John White Bird(00:52:39) - The Fight for Physical Media(00:53:00) - Two superheroes in the dark

    55 min

  7. Apr 8

    Fairy Tale Endings (Lois Lane 73)

    Space exploration! Nuclear annihilation! And the greatest season of broadcast television in history! It's all right here in Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #73! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane's Fairy Godmother(00:02:37) - Allergic to the weather(00:04:25) - Releasing another episode of Recovery Drinking(00:07:39) - Lois Lane Whipping a Wooden Dummy of Superman(00:08:56) - The First Human Space Exploration(00:14:04) - The Alien Stealing Lois's Camera(00:18:13) - Cults and the Improved Mind(00:18:53) - Strawberry Jeep Races Across The Country(00:21:31) - The Daily Planet reporter is kidnapped(00:24:59) - Clark vs. the Energy Monster(00:25:57) - Superman in the Daily Planet(00:29:49) - Slow News Day(00:30:57) - Miss Basic Accountants(00:31:36) - Superman in the Superbook(00:35:20) - Superman vs Demon Possessed by a Puppet(00:41:01) - Dear Dr. Husband(00:46:07) - Dear Dr. Husband(00:49:28) - In the Children's Ward:(00:52:18) - Fairy Godmother: The Ice Cream Treat(00:53:21) - When You Need a Fairy Godmother(00:56:24) - How To Clean Out A Chicken Coop(00:56:37) - Superman with the Fairy Godmother(01:00:29) - Superman in Chains and Manacles(01:02:52) - How To Get Superman To Love You(01:06:17) - When You Can't Even Identify Your Name(01:07:12) - Ned Rorem's Sex(01:10:27) - Superman and Lois in The Third Dimension(01:12:16) - Dear Editor: Change Lois's Hairdo

    1h 14m

  8. Mar 31

    You're the Top! (Flash 169)

    It's an 80-Page Giant! The Flash stars in a trio of mediocre stories facing his mildly annoying foes! Dr. Husband learns about Gorilla City AND Skartaris in a single sitting! PLUS for the first time, Cap'n Butler does NOT bark at the bouncy-hair neighbor lady! It's all right here in Flash #169! Chapters (00:00:00) - Oh, My!(00:00:17) - The Flash 169(00:02:36) - In the Elevator With Tom Cruise(00:03:12) - The Flash: A 180 Page Giant(00:06:49) - The World's foremost fashion designer(00:08:24) - The Flash Is Gay(00:10:21) - The Flash vs. The Criminal(00:12:03) - Anton Previn(00:13:25) - The Flash(00:18:13) - The Top(00:23:26) - Atomic Grenade(00:25:10) - The Flash vs. Topsy Turvy(00:29:17) - Barry Allen Returns Iris' Fashion Sign to Anton Previn(00:30:41) - Song Song Lit(00:32:05) - The Flash vs The Mirror Master(00:37:00) - Barry and I Have A Date(00:38:46) - The Mirror Master(00:40:20) - The Flash vs The Mirror Master(00:42:38) - The Flash(00:47:12) - Talking To The Walkers(00:47:32) - The Flash vs Mirror Master(00:49:49) - The Flash vs Gorilla Grodd(00:50:46) - Return of the tractor borer(00:51:50) - DC Universe: Guerrilla City (Guerrilla City)(00:56:14) - Grodd Has Escaped(00:57:51) - Grodd the Gorilla Has Escaped(01:01:13) - Flash Grodd vs. Solivar(01:05:59) - Flash vs Gorilla Grodd

    1h 9m
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From February, 1966 through August, 1967, DC Comics branded all their publications with a checkerboard masthead, lovingly known as "Go-Go Checks". Because, you know, the 60s. With the help of his husband and intrepid friends, Dr. Bobb will examine each of these issues in depth and tell you what you need to know!

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  • Creator
    Dr. Bobb
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    331
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    Copyright © Bobb Robinson
  • Show Website
    Checkered Past

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