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Before Mike and Eric get into the show we have another listener voice mail, this time from Jay Scarsi. He is here to tell us about an early DC book he read called The DC Super Dictionary that introduced a little remembered and never again used team called the Forgotten Heroes.

We then have our own and listener submitted top 5 lists for Top 5 DC animals. And it’s on to our usual weekly comics discussion with Strange Adventures #8, Superman/Batman #65, House of Mystery Halloween Annual #1, Outsiders #23, Batgirl #3, Batman: The Widening Gyre #2, Batman and Robin #5, Secret Six #14, World of New Krypton #8, Supergirl #46, Adventure Comics #3, Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink #5, Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #6, Final Crisis Aftermath: Run #6, Doom Patrol #3 and Booster Gold #25

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Mike and Eric are back from a short break with our actual 50th episode. But we don’t really make a big deal out of it. It’s business as usual as we start the show with some back issue discussion of Action Comics #428 and The Question #8. We then go over the DC items in the September Previews catalog for items shipping in November 2009. We have a lot of comics to discuss this week and next week since we’ve been away for a bit, so sit back as we delve into quicker than usual discussion of…

Doom Patrol #1 (00:37:10 to 00:49:12)
Flash Rebirth #4 (00:49:12 to 00:55:55)
Secret Six #12 (00:55:55 to 01:02:17)
Last Days of Animal Man #4 (01:02:17 to 01:05:41)
Justice League: Cry For Justice #2 (01:05:41 to 01:12:41)
Booster Gold #23 (01:12:41 to 01:18:32)
Strange Adventures #6 (01:18:32 to 01:21:30)
JSA vs Kobra #3 (01:21:30 to 01:24:13)
Power Girl #4 (01:24:13 to 01:25:28)
Solomon Grundy #6 (01:25:28 to 01:26:46)
and a quick round up of the #4 issues of Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape, Run, Ink and Dance (01:26:46 to 01:33:50)

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Mike and Eric begin episode 52 with some quick discussion of Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink #3 and Dance #3, Gotham City Sirens #3 and some quick discussion of the JLA Deluxe Hardcover volume 2 and specifically the character design of the villain Dr. Light within. Then we have a Top 5 list of our favorite current DC writers. Our spoiler filled comics discussion begins with –

Power Girl #3 (00:21:35 to 00:27:51)
Booster Gold #22 (00:27:51 to 00:36:30)
Adventure Comics #1 (00:36:30 to 00:47:48)
Last Days of Animal Man #3 (00:47:48 to 00:56:55)
Justice Society of America #29 (00:56:55 to 01:04:29)
Batman #689 (01:04:29 to 01:11:27)

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Hosts Mike Myers and Eric Martin open the show with some back issue discussion of Adventure Comics #435 (1974) and Jack Kirby’s O.M.A.C. issues 1 and 2. we then move in to some non spoiler discussion of Wednesday Comics 1 and 2. We also have an impromptu Top 5 list of our 5 favorite strips from Wednesday Comics.

The full spoiler reviews/annotations this time are for
Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #2 (00:19:49 to 00:23:19)
Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #2 and Ink #2 are quickly discussed (00:23:19 to 00:26:07)
Final Crisis Aftermath: Run #2 (00:26:07 to 00:34:59)
Last Days of Animal Man #2 (00:34:59 to 00:40:39)
JSA vs Kobra #1 (00:40:39 to 00:47:12).

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