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#125 Pt 1 – Classic Comics From Decades Past: The Golden Age, Star Wars & A Passion For History With Matthew B Lloyd
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Episode notes
Matthew B Lloyd, host of the Classic Comics podcast show (on Comics In Motion) is this week’s guest, talking about old comics, starting his podcast and Star Wars!
In more detail, this week is part 1 of their chat and they discuss how Matt first got into comics and how his love of history pushed him into the golden age of comics (between 1938-1956), why he started a podcast & what it’s all about, before talking about some of the weird & wonderful things in the Star Wars comics from the 70s/80s!
Part 2 is already available to all Patreon supporters of GCC (for as little as £1 a month) but will be released on this feed next week. In part 2 Mike & Matt continue to talk about the many strange characters & stories in the 70s/80s Star Wars comics, including the daily newspaper strips, the multimedia projects Star Was has started, storylines, Matt’s connection to Star Wars and more, so be sure to either visit Patreon today or tune into this feed next week!
Find Matt’s Comic show on Twitter @ComicsLloyd and find his personal account @MattB_Lloyd!
Matt’s Comics email: [email protected] – Matt also writes reviews for https://dccomicsnews.com
The Batman: Politics In Gotham book that Matt contributed can be found here for UK: https://amzn.to/3eVxwW5 or here for US: https://amzn.to/3w8jaah
Supporters of GCC on Patreon have access to both parts of this episode right now, in one unsplit release, for only as little as £1 a month, get early access to GCC conversations as well as exclusive access to Mike & Megan’s Afterthoughts show (with 2 episodes are *FREE* to anyone: season 1 of The Witcher and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace), so if you want to support the show and get more content, or just check out free stuff, go to http://patreon.com/genuinechitchat!
Last episode, Mike spoke with actor Tom Everatt about a huge amount of topics, including Norse mythology, deities & religion, Tom’s time as a tour guide, why Tom decided to become an actor, learning introspection, free will & determinism, political discourse & idealism, the news cycle, being a good person & much more!
Find Mike’s other show; Star Wars: Comics In Canon on Spotify & the other podcast apps on the feed of Comics In Motion. Episodes are out every Saturday; episodes 0-55 are out now, with ep 55 showing Aphra & psychotic protocol droid Triple-Zero on the run, while ep 54 details Caleb Dume/kanan Jarrus from order 66 onwards and ep 53 details the 50th issue story-arc named Hope Dies! Previous episodes topics include Lando comics, the Journals of Old Ben Kenobi, Count Dooku, Kylo Ren, Darth Maul, how C-3PO got his red arm, book reviews & more - https://spoti.fi/3sOtqCw
Mike also appeared on episode 16 Frank Burton’s I Like The Sound podcast: https://spoti.fi/3ue8ma3
Mike was on the 20th Century Geek podcast to talk about his 3 “Desert Island Comics” here: http://spoti.fi/3r1UOvZ
Mike & Megan were also on the Batman retrospective on 20th Century Geek, where they discuss Batman ’66, the four Burtonverse Batman movies, Mask Of The Phantasm and the Dark Knight trilogy, check it out part 1 here: https://spoti.fi/3sTeN2m
Mike was recently on Podcasts We Listen To, speaking about his show Genuine Chit-Chat and next week he talks all about this show and his love of Star Wars: http://spoti.fi/3uus0PT
Mike & Megan also appeared on the 52 Love Podcast where they wrote & read poems to each other: http://spoti.fi/3ruHXmF
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