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Worst Collection Ever
by Shawn Marek & Jen Stansfield
WORST COLLECTION EVER is a comic book podcast where Jen and Shawn poke fun at their own collection of random comic books with loads of crass sincerity and scattershot nostalgia. None of the books in the collection offer anything close to quality or financial worth but our love for all of it is as real as it gets. If you want to follow along, we like to read the books in sequential order as to track the lunacy in real time! Email the podcast and talk to the hosts at [email protected]!
Episodes
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Wonder Woman Listens to West Coast Rap
Convergence: Wonder Woman #2 (2015) This Wonder Woman versus vampires situation keeps chugging along as Diana squares off against the fangin-and-bangin trio of Joker, Catwoman and Poison Ivy. It’ll probably get worse though because both Steve Trevor and Etta Candy are in a pretty dire situation.…
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Wonder Woman vs. The Cult of Ladies
Convergence: Wonder Woman #1 (2015) Spooky season has arrived so let’s see what’s what with this duo of books from DC’s Convergence event where versions of Gotham from different universes have to fight one another at the behest of some entity (and also Brainiac). This one is perfect for the…
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Spawn's Flesh Could Save Us ALL!
Spawn #41 (1996) Continuing on with our mid-90s SPAWN coverage, we pick up with the Spawn man about to be dissected by the goatee-having villain Curse up his precariously balanced castle. Curse, you see, wants to be come “Satan Two” and believes he can use Spawn’s necroplasm to get there. Sure…
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Spawn Endures a Cheap Wine Hangover
Spawn #40 (1996) Hey check this out — we are covering a Spawn book (quite possibly) for the first time! It has been a big year of first for us over here at WCE. We’re jumping in here with Spawn being abducted and dissected by Curse, a tech savvy religious zealot. We also have Cy-Gor the…
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The Justice League...But As Famous Musicians!
Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1 (1999) Something slightly different this week as we chat about a specific story from an Elseworlds anthology called “Rockumentary.” This is a silly take on BEHIND THE MUSIC with Lex Luthor as a bigger-than-life record company executive. It’s a fun trip so let’s check…
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Shot Thru the Heart (and Ghost Rider's to Blame)
Ghost Rider [vol 3] #35 (1993) One more ride with Ghost Rider before we move on! Here, GR is not only contending with a Death Ninja, but also the super-armored Heart Attack, the death-obsessed Suicide and the always furious Lt. Badilino aka the future Vengeance. Highlights include: An extended...
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Ghost Rider Skips Breakfast
Ghost Rider [vol 3] #34 (1993) It has been too long since we’ve talked about Ghost Rider and with the latest Ryan Gosling news, now is a great time to revisit our favorite Spirit of Vengeance. This time out, a Death Ninja seeks finality and must hunt GR down in order to achieve it. Highlights...
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Green Lantern Does Some Improvised Plumbing
Green Lantern [vol 2] #183 (1984) John Stewart is a newly-minted Green Lantern and Hal is not happy about it. Regardless, John is quickly put to the test by a conflicted Major Disaster, who is threatening to flood Los Angeles. Also, we learn about a potentially problematic GL ring feature....
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Green Lantern is a Frugal Bar Patron
Green Lantern [vol 2] #182 (1984) LANTERNS, an honest-to-goodness live action TV show with Green Lanterns in it, is coming our way so let’s see what the Emerald Knight was up to back in the mid-80s. Turns out quite a bit as Hal Jordan bails on the gig and the formidable John Stewart is next in...
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Spider-Man is an Elite Combat Strategist
Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #14 (1978) Spider-Man, Flash Thompson and new friend Razorback are on a race against time to get to Yonkers to stop an evil cult from going nationwide. As it turned out, we didn’t allot for covering the conclusion to this arc but I can assure that it all...
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Spider-Man Gets Real Mad at an Arkansas Man
Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #13 (1977) Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has a new movie coming out this week so let’s see what he was up to in the late-70s! Somehow it involves cults, big rig trucks and a large man dressed as a pig. Highlights include: Spider-Man does some…
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Batman Has a Serious Gas Problem
Detective Comics #32 (1939) Our journey back to early (EARLY!) Batman stories continues - and concludes - as Batman faces off against the Mad Monk inside his wolf-filled castle. Highlights include: Are they vampires or werewolves? Screw it — it’s the Bat-Plane now Batman and his growing…
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Batman Endures Multiple Gorilla Surprises
Detective Comics #31 (1939) We go way back in time this week as we talk about DETECTIVE COMICS mere months after the debut of the Batman! It is classic Golden Age goodness as (the) Batman squares off against Mad Monk and his menagerie of mammals and reptiles. Highlights include: The debut of the...
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Storm Got to Be Happy for About 5 Minutes
Uncanny X-Men #290 (1992) The immense drama that is the UNCANNY X-MEN continues as Storm takes her time contemplating Forge’s marriage proposal, Iceman’s date continues to go sideways and Colossus has a day on the town with his newly-resurfaced brother Mikhail. Highlights include: Storm and…
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The X-Men Are Life-RUINERS!
Uncanny X-Men #289 (1992) It is X-MEN TIME as X-MEN ’97 returns for a second season and we return to some proper X-books! This time out, Bishop and his massive arms have just joined X-Men Gold, causing unintended friction between Forge and Storm. Also, Iceman introduces his girlfriend to his...
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Supergirl Declares Diplomatic Immunity
Supergirl [vol 2] #18 (1984) Join us this week as Supergirl continues to wreak havoc in Chicago as she shows off her new headband whilst foiling a jewel heist and recklessly heaving planes to their certain doom. Also, there is an alien terrorizing the seas AND the skies asking for human monies....
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Supergirl's Thighs Ruin a Buick
Supergirl [vol 2] #17 (1984) Supergirl has a new movie coming out so let’s talk about her! It is the early 80s and she’s living in Chicago doing scholarly things and the like. Everything is going swimmingly until some 1950s mobsters rough up her Tom Baker-ass looking professor and now Supergirl…
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Power Man & Iron Fist Face the Hammer of Judgment
Power Man & Iron Fist #107 (1984) Let’s wrap up this trip into freelance superhero services as we follow Power Man and Iron Fist as they serve as bodyguards to an eccentric rock star. There’s also a BARBARIAN meets SMALL WONDER deal going on with the rock star’s father so it is guaranteed to get...
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Iron Fist Attends a Supervillain's High School Reunion
Power Man & Iron Fist #106 (1984) We are keeping the Power Man and Iron Fist party alive as we check in with Iron Fist getting hired to escort a posh woman to her high school reunion. Not really the spicy kind of “escort” but more of a “weird guy from high school is freaking me out" kind of vibe....
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Luke Cage & Iron Fist Save All the Sports!
Power Man & Iron Fist #105 (1984) What’s a comic book podcast without one of the most ubiquitous 80s comics you’ll find in a dollar bin? Talking about some POWER MAN & IRON FIST here, the book that was read by everybody and nobody. In this issue, Luke and Danny are feeling the freelance superhero...
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Our FIRST-EVER Star Wars Comic Book!!!
Star Wars #9 (1978) It took twelve years but we we FINALLY tackle a STAR WARS comic on this podcast and this one is a blast as we check out an early issue in the initial Marvel run. We got Han Solo and Chewbacca on an Outer Rim planet teaming up with a green bunny and a porcupine man to defend...
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Jonah Hex Fights the Future
Hex #1 (1985) Let’s take a break from our current apocalypse to see what happens when you pluck disfigured gunfighter Jonah Hex from the Old West and place him in a dystopian Seattle. HEX was one of the bold swings from DC Comics in the mid 80s and truth be told, it’s not that bad! Highlights...
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HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT...The Lobo Brothers?!?
Nice! Time for another installment of HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT…?” a semi-recurring segment where we look at random characters that we encounter in the books we read. Lots of strange, unusual folks out here that you need to know about. Since we are putzing around with the Punisher, the most logical...
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FINAL ISSUE BLUES #2: Blaze (1994-1995)
Hell yeah, it is the return of FINAL ISSUE BLUES here under the Worst Collection Ever umbrella of media offerings. FINAL ISSUE BLUES is a segment were we talk about the last issue of a comic book series. This time out, we will discuss the end of Marvel’s BLAZE [vol 1] (1994-1995) ending with…
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The Punisher and $1300 Worth of Comic Books
The Punisher [vol 2] #19 (1989) One of Frank’s drug busts goes sideways and he ends up in the Australian outback seeking vengeance for a slain woman that he JUST saved from choking. It’s complicated but Frank does get to eventually ride a camel and wear a fun hat so it’s not so bad. Highlights...
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Superman Gets a Stomach Ache While Vacuuming
DC Comics Presents #25 (1980) Our vacation in Stupid Town has reached its end as Superman teams up with the Phantom Stranger to rescue Pete Ross’s son from a future timeline. Somehow, this is all Superman’s fault (not wrong) and it has driven Pete Ross insane but most importantly, it has given...
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Superman and Deadman Battle the Mafia
DC Comics Presents #24 (1980 Deadman wants to quit being Deadman but the higher powers decide he has business to tend to in Metropolis first such as stopping cardiac-induced earthquakes. Superman finds himself involved and has to burrow into the earth’s core to fix this mess. Also, the mafia!...
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Superman and Doctor Fate Go Swashbuckling
DC Comics Presents #23 (1980) Superman contends with a suddenly appearing privateer vessel and it is most likely S.T.A.R. Labs’s fault. Thankfully Doctor Fate shows up to handle the mystic end of things, not because Superman can’t but because his wife Inza is cursed by this ship and turning into...
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Daredevil Really Should Not Be Driving
Daredevil #276 (1990) Daredevil and the Inhumans are tasked with saving their cyborg ladyfriend from an emotionally conflicted Ultron so it is time to pull out ALL the stops! Highlights include: Karnak channels the wisdom of the Three Stooges Daredevil might have been decapitated for a minute The...
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Daredevil and the Inhumans Vs. Ultron and Barbie
Daredevil #275 (1989) The Acts of Vengeance are upon us as Daredevil and the Inhumans encounter a lovelorn Ultron in the upstate New York wilderness! Highlights include: Introducing FATRON~! aka Ultron 8 Daredevil sits in a room full of skulls Doctor Doom won’t stop looking at me! Skip Ash…more...
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The Debut of FINAL ISSUE BLUES!
Jen is out sick this week so let’s pilot something called LAST ISSUE BLUES… Comic books ending their runs, whether on purpose or due to cancellation, interests me so let’s get a little deeper. And by deeper, I mean we will look at the last issue of a series, talk about the character, the run, go...
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The Spectre's Brief Career as a Stretchy Guy
The Spectre [vol 2] #6 (1987) Jim Corrigan is determined to find out who murdered him during Crisis even if he has to “fold into” the Spectre and possible feel up a demon along the way. Highlights include: What exactly is a “good bar”? How they hanging? Phantom Stranger wants you to step inside…
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The Spectre Gets to Second Base
The Spectre [vol 2] #5 (1987) It is exactly what you think it is…. The Spectre returns as he is once again tethered to his human host Jim Corrigan. Of course, Jim was dead but Madame Xanadu put his corporeal body in a really big vase and kept him fresh, so he’s doing good now. Highlights include:...
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HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT...Mephisto?!?
Here we go with another edition of HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT…?” a semi-recurring segment where we look at random characters that we encounter in the books we read. Lots of strange, unusual folks out here that you need to know about. As we move on from Wonder Man and friends, let’s make a quick detour…
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Wonder Man & Bad Bunny Enter the Grey Sweatpants Battle Royal
Avengers Two: Wonder Man & The Beast #3 (2000) We wrap our fun times with Wonder Man and Beast as the dudes square off against IT, The Living Colossus over the Hollywood skies. Nothing like a giant stone robot engaged in mid-air combat over a densely populated area to make you feel safe at night,...
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Superman in Action Comics [Guest: Ken Reid of TV GUIDANCE COUNSELOR]
Action Comics #421 (1973) The mighty Ken Reid of the TV GUIDANCE COUNSELOR podcast joins the show for a second time as we chat about a really weird Superman book featuring a Popeye stand-in and alien seaweed as well as a Green Arrow backup where he fails terribly at his own public relations:...
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Wonder Man Should Really Call His Fiancée
Avengers Two: Wonder Man & The Beast (2000) #2 WONDER MAN on Disney+ is up and rocking and so are we with the next installment of Simon Williams and Hank McCoy farting around in LA: Highlights include: Wonder Man has a weird dream about Mephisto The breakfast spread in WEDDING CRASHERS Beast does...
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Wonder Man: What's He All About?
Avengers Two: Wonder Man & The Beast (2000) #1 Oh man! Wonder Man has a new show coming out so HOPEFULLY everyone out there will be asking “what this Wonder Man guy all about?” That's because Wonder Man is great and y'all need to learn about him. Nonetheless, we can help a little bit and throw in…
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The End of MORBIN' TIME!
Morbius: The Living Vampire #23 (1994) Finally, we can stop MORBIN’! It all comes to a head here as Morbius, Spider-Man, the CIA, Martine, the vampire assassin Slaughter and a whole host of corpses all pile into a blender for a nonsensical slurry that no one asked for. Highlights include: Morbius...
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The CIA Pays Their Vampire Assassins Better Than the Mafia
Morbius: The Living Vampire #22 (1994) MORBIN’ TIME keeps on going as Morbius and Spider-Man are in the thick of a CIA assassin plot complete with old lady cosplay and dumpster brawls! Highlights include: Morbius drinks a Capri Sun full of blood Spider-Man shows up half-cocked High school typing...
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Morbius the Mall Cop
Morbius: The Living Vampire #21 (1994) 2026 is the year that we MORB~!~! Kicking off the new year with some mid-90s Morbius with Mikey Morbs getting mixed up with the CIA, Spider-Man lamenting about his fake parents and Morbius’s girlfriend Martine telling you to stay away from her man.…
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Green Lantern's Fantasy Adventure
Green Lantern Annual [vol 3] #6 (1997) Let’s wrap up the year with a Green Lantern Pulp Heroes story involving dinosaurs and Kyle Rayner dressed as Peter Pan. Happy new year! Highlights include: Jade looks for the Purple Stuff success vs. substance how is she keeping that bra on her body? the…
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The Worst Food in the Marvel Universe
Marvel Super-Heroes [vol 2] #4 (Winter 1990) Hey guys…time for the Marvel Super-Heroes Winter Special and it is friggin’ depressing! Highlights include: Spider-Man has a psychotropic freak-out Daredevil tackles an exploding doctor Speedball loses his virginity to a dying girl Spitfire crushes a...
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Why So Blue, Superman?
Adventures of Superman Annual #9 (1997) For the remainder of December, we will be checking out a few fun annuals and/or specials including the Pulp Heroes event that ran in DC Comics Annuals in 1997. Many charming and unique stores to be shared including this Western-flavored book featuring...
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HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT....Puck from Alpha Flight?
Time for another round of HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT…?” a semi-recurring segment where we look at random characters that we encounter in the books we read. Lots of strange, unusual folks out here that you need to know about. Since we just finished up a run on ALPHA FLIGHT, let’s delve into some of the...
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The Alpha Flight/David Cronenberg Connection
Alpha Flight #120 (1993) The CLAMPDOWN loosens its grip as Alpha Flight struggles with the fallout of their massive brawl with the Wrecking Crew destroying their favorite post-battle poutine hangout. Highlights include: EASTERN PROMISES fighting! Guardian uses all the things in her suit at the…
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Canada's Most Aggressive Pizza Delivery of 1993
Alpha Flight #119 (1993) Up in Canada, the CLAMPDOWN continues to get tighter as the brawl between Alpha Flight and the Wrecking Crew (and all their organizational baggage) ramps up! Lots of mystical crowbars, air bullets and well-placed gymnastics going on here. Plus, Department H gets raided…
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Alpha Flight Gets WRECKED~!
Alpha Flight #118 (1993) We’re packing up and visiting the great land of Canada as we settle in with ALPHA FLIGHT for a spell! The situation is pretty tense up north as government machinations, internal strife and the WRECKING CREW are all making life difficult for Guardian, Puck, Northstar and…
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The Ray [Guest: Stephen Sajdak of WE HATE MOVIES]
The Ray [vol 2] #1 (1994) This week, we are joined by a special guest as Stephen Sajdak from WE HATE MOVIES returns to the podcast! He picked THE RAY to talk about and it’s grand time as we chat about some hardcore mid-90s DC Comics content. Highlights include: superhero jackets in the 90s...
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Batman & Superman BECOME Mummies & Zombies
Batman Confidential #48 (2010) The end is nigh for the World’s Finest duo of super-heroes as it is for our coverage of BATMAN VS. THE UNDEAD! Batman got zombified so its up to Superman to get mummified and put this necromantic tomfoolery behind us. Highlights include: zombies who love GWAR…
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WORST COLLECTION EVER is a comic book podcast where Jen and Shawn poke fun at their own collection of random comic books with loads of crass sincerity and scattershot nostalgia. None of the books in the collection offer anything close to quality or financial worth but our love for all of it is as real as it gets.
If you want to follow along, we like to read the books in sequential order as to track the lunacy in real time!
Email the podcast and talk to the hosts at [email protected]!
HOSTED BY
Shawn Marek & Jen Stansfield
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