Funny Book Forensics 404 The Krypto Code

[00:00:06] Speaker A: I started out talking about it because you told me so. There we go. I mean, that's fine. I mean, you picked a book to make me feel better. Everybody. I was having a bad week last week. It's true. Well, maybe you don't know it, but Dan does. Dan knows Dan does. And he picks something to uplift me. And then I, I, I'm super happy that we read this book. And I was, I was excited because I read the whole thing cover to cover. And then to find out that Dan only read one story. [00:00:44] Speaker B: Well, it's because we are reading it's the Summer of Superman. Yes. And I have read this book before, but I do have in my grubby little hands the facsimile edition. Oh. Of Adventure Comics Number 210 by Superman National Comics, otherwise known as DC Comics from 1955. It's an old everyday March. [00:01:11] Speaker A: March. [00:01:12] Speaker B: And it's a story about Superman when he was a boy, which makes him super Boy. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Boy, not man. Superman Boy. He's Superman boy. [00:01:27] Speaker B: No, he's super. Well, no, that was after super Boy. That was after somebody sued. [00:01:32] Speaker A: So no longer a super man, but a Superboy. And he can't be a Superman boy. He's just got to be small and ville. [00:01:43] Speaker B: And to all you haters, I did take this out of its plate. Plastic bag. [00:01:46] Speaker A: No. [00:01:47] Speaker B: So I could read it. [00:01:48] Speaker A: Oh my goodness. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Yeah, they put these in plastic bags. The reason they did is because they had a sweepstake that's for, for Crypto's Golden Biscuit giveaway. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Golden Biscuit. [00:02:00] Speaker B: But as you can see, I did not win. [00:02:02] Speaker A: When, when did the facsimile come out? What year? [00:02:05] Speaker B: A couple months ago. [00:02:06] Speaker A: Oh, okay. So this relatively recently, if you got the Golden Biscuit, what would you have won? [00:02:14] Speaker B: Tickets to the movie I paid to watch. [00:02:16] Speaker A: Oh, wow. [00:02:17] Speaker B: The Superman movie, which you have not. I need to go see it because you are lame. [00:02:21] Speaker A: I tried to get in the owner of the Retro Emporium to go with me, but alas, she was like, we have no time. And I said, only if I had a time. [00:02:34] Speaker B: You have all the time, but you choose not to use it to go. [00:02:36] Speaker A: See if you can. No, she, she extended the hours for the retro Emporium to 8 o' clock and now we have no time. [00:02:43] Speaker B: After the Retro Emporium closes, I have. [00:02:47] Speaker A: To get up because I got to be up at 3 o' clock in the morning. [00:02:51] Speaker B: So go before the Retro Empire close. [00:02:53] Speaker A: The Retro Emporium. And then I have to go home to go to sleep. This is why I'm sad, Dan. [00:02:59] Speaker B: Well, maybe you should close the retro Emporium at 6 like we used to. [00:03:04] Speaker A: Maybe next month. Yeah, after the summer. [00:03:06] Speaker B: Seems like a good idea. [00:03:07] Speaker A: After the summer's over. Well. [00:03:10] Speaker B: Well, the important thing is. Oh, no. Crypto thinks I'm playing a game. He's fetching back the safe, just like I left at the town hall. [00:03:19] Speaker A: Crypto's a klepto. [00:03:22] Speaker B: Well, let's find out about this little Crypto guy first off. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:26] Speaker B: I just have to say, did you. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Know how much is he worth? [00:03:30] Speaker B: That in 1955. Wasn't going to answer that. According to the wonderful American comic book chronicles by tomorrow's publishing, this one, the 1950-1959 by Bill Shelley. That eighth, the bad hound and crypto were both introduced in 1955. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Interesting dogs were popular. [00:03:59] Speaker B: Crypto and Marchin Ace the bat hound in June 1955. Now, Greg, do you know any reason why silly concepts like superhero dogs would be introduced into comics in 1955? [00:04:15] Speaker A: I don't know, Dan. What. What could be happening in 1955 that would make people. [00:04:21] Speaker B: What happened in 1955, Greg? That made comics silly. [00:04:26] Speaker A: That made them take a step back from being so wild and made them become more childlike and innocent. [00:04:33] Speaker B: It took them back from that. [00:04:36] Speaker A: The crime books that. That we grew up loving and reading and loving. And the horror comics. The horror comics. [00:04:42] Speaker B: I'm showing a picture of. Yeah. [00:04:44] Speaker A: Whore and crime to do this. Crypto. The superdog from Krypton. [00:04:53] Speaker B: Of course, the DC comics already were that. [00:04:55] Speaker A: Yes, yes, that's true. [00:04:57] Speaker B: Yes. But that would be the wonderful Comics Code Authority. [00:05:02] Speaker A: I've heard of that thing. That's the. The. The stamp in the corner. The book. [00:05:07] Speaker B: That's. That's the stamp in the corner. And, And. Well, I'm not going to go into a big. Comic books Comics Code authority. [00:05:13] Speaker A: We have 45 minutes for you to do that. And we only covered one comic. While. [00:05:19] Speaker B: What I think is funny is I told Greg I was going to pick something light and fun. [00:05:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:23] Speaker B: And then I realized I picked a book from the first month of the comics Code Authority stamps. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Oh. [00:05:33] Speaker B: Now, without going into the comics Code Authority too much. [00:05:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:05:37] Speaker B: I'm going to read you a little bit about DC Comics. [00:05:42] Speaker A: Oh. [00:05:43] Speaker B: This book says National Comics. Predictably, National's line made a seamless transition to the comics Code restrictions. The costume hero titles, Superman Action Comics, Adventure Comics. Superman's pal, Jimmy Olsen, Superboy, Batman, Detective Comics, World Finest. And Wonder Woman had few problems with the CCA. Neither did National's nominal crime books, Big Town, Mr. District Attorney, Gangbusters and mystery titles, House of Mystery and My Greatest Adventure, Futurama, the Doom Patrol. Its westerns all star Western western comics. Hopalong Cassidy and Tomahawk made it through with only minor adjustments. And its science fiction, Strange Adventures and mystery in space had no trouble with the transition. Girls love stories, girls romances and secret hearts were innocuous, as were the adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog and short lived Congo Bill. [00:06:32] Speaker A: Okay. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Additionally, Bony press, I mean, DC's line had a large contingent of humor and license properties all squeaky clean that they were happy to publish at the expense of their writers. And independent. I mean, excuse me, that, that wasn't in there. A Date with Judy, Adventures of Bob Hope, Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Buzzy, Dodo the Frog, Flippity and Flop, Fox and Crow, Leave it to Binky Mutton Jeff, Nutsy Squirrel, Peter Panda, Peter Porkchops, Raccoon Kids, and real screen comics. It's nice to know that half their line was focused on animals, little kids stuff, and the other half their line was focused on licensed properties. Man, it's kind of crazy when a comic publisher gets so focused on their licensed properties that they just completely ignore the rights of the creators that write for them and sounds and draw for. [00:07:31] Speaker A: Them so oddly familiar. Like a current. I know that's going on five years. [00:07:38] Speaker B: I was Rick and Morty, one of. [00:07:40] Speaker A: The comics I listed in the, in the list of books from dc. No, no, that's a different company altogether. Oh, yeah, that's a. More. [00:07:50] Speaker B: That's a theme. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, that's. That's a different thing altogether. [00:07:54] Speaker B: Well, you know, I mean, we wouldn't want to criticize any modern comic book companies for having a bunch of licensed titles or anything just to and to republish Scott Pilgrim 9,000 times. [00:08:07] Speaker A: Ah, it's a good book, though. [00:08:12] Speaker B: Sure. [00:08:15] Speaker A: I mean, you can get it in the original black and white or you can get it in the newly published color or the monochrome. That's. [00:08:21] Speaker B: I think it's probably behind me on. [00:08:22] Speaker A: The shelf, but that's fine. I have a couple different versions of it. Not that, not that it matters, but. [00:08:29] Speaker B: Yes, the effects of the censorship were felt across the entire comics industry. Dc, however, had no problems with censorship because they were not publishing anything. That was too drastic, though. Yeah, I, I love to judge Charles Murphy, the. One of the progenitors of the comics code. He originally acted like he wasn't going to be that involved. It was just like a rubber stamp. And then he decided things like. More than a quarter of these changes involved. These are some of the change of the code, making feminine curves more natural and women's clothing more modest. If a woman had any sort of decollete. Did I say that right? A line indicating the shape of the upper breasts in the exposed area was verboten. Both Charles Murphy and John Goldwater, the CMMA CMAA president, launched a public relations blitz traveling the country to address the dozens of civic and church and parents groups to demonstrate how the code was working. Make sure those ladies are covered. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Yes. [00:09:40] Speaker B: You know, it's kind of like if you go somewhere and put on a wrestling show and your women have to wear hovering from head to toe to satisfy a culture that you're in that's just paying you to come to their country and sell all of your principles to make sure that you're keeping their people safe from the voluptuous. Voluptuous curves of a woman or their skin or their voice. Wow. [00:10:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:10:18] Speaker B: And it's still happening now. [00:10:21] Speaker A: I was like, which is wrestling company? Would that be Dan? [00:10:25] Speaker B: That would be the wwe, sir. [00:10:27] Speaker A: I don't watch them anymore. [00:10:29] Speaker B: Well, they went to Saudi Arabia again, and the ladies all had to cover up. They had to cover all of their skin up to their face, up to. [00:10:43] Speaker A: Their faces, keeping their eyes open, because. [00:10:46] Speaker B: That'S a good way to keep your performers safe and to help them, you know, live well. [00:10:51] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, good news. [00:10:52] Speaker B: They got paid a lot, so. [00:10:54] Speaker A: But. Or don't go there at all. At all. [00:10:59] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, anyway, we open on now. [00:11:04] Speaker A: I know. Wow. [00:11:04] Speaker B: This is supposed to be. This is supposed to be. [00:11:08] Speaker A: I was having a bad week, and then you just bring up all this stuff and make it so. [00:11:11] Speaker B: Well, the funny thing is, you think we're done with this censorship. [00:11:16] Speaker A: No, I know we're not. It goes on and on and on for decades and decades and decades. And now we're here again, and it's. It's not even like they. They don't even need a stamp. It's just censorship. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Oh. Yeah. Anyway, I mean, I learned some amazing things this week, which I will not be sharing on the podcast. Yeah, but. And that was sarcasm. [00:11:38] Speaker A: Oh, I know. [00:11:40] Speaker B: But, yeah, I. I think my favorite thing I learned this week. Oh, from. From. I did not watch this, but apparently it was on via Newsmax network. Giselle Maxwell is a victim. [00:11:55] Speaker A: Oh, okay. [00:11:56] Speaker B: Or Jizz Lane. Sorry. Yeah, Giselle. [00:11:59] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:12:01] Speaker B: Yeah, she's a victim. [00:12:02] Speaker A: Okay. [00:12:03] Speaker B: Right. Because she was prosecuted after she had immunity. She was just a she's. A victim. A sex trafficker. Yeah, a victim. [00:12:11] Speaker A: She's a victim. What about all the other victims that she. [00:12:13] Speaker B: Because we're flipping that now. Yeah, because now the president might be named. So all of a sudden she's a victim. [00:12:21] Speaker A: She's a victim. [00:12:22] Speaker B: But wait for the fucking pardon to come. [00:12:24] Speaker A: All the people that she. She had a hand in moving from place to place. Their voices are lost in the mix. Yeah, cool. And silenced. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Right? [00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah. She. [00:12:37] Speaker B: We're not going to release those files. But you know what? [00:12:39] Speaker A: What? [00:12:39] Speaker B: We are going to release a file is this one. Because I got a replica copy. So I've got what the original comic book looked like on the inside. Ads and everything. And you do too. [00:12:52] Speaker A: I do have all the ads, which is great. From 1955. [00:12:59] Speaker B: We're going to find out. So we opened the book and we've got a story by Otto Bender and Kurt Swan and Seymour Berry the inker. And Otto Bender was writing a lot of these adventure comic stories. Otto Bender is also known for what again? Do you remember? [00:13:15] Speaker A: I don't know, Dan, what was he known for? [00:13:18] Speaker B: Lots of science fiction, sir. [00:13:20] Speaker A: No way. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Yeah. He also wrote a bunch of stories for what company before he came to D.C. national. That DT national put out of business. [00:13:32] Speaker A: Could it be that. That I'm trying to. [00:13:40] Speaker B: We've had this quiz before. [00:13:41] Speaker A: Is it the. Oh, hold on a second. Hold on a second. It's right there. It is like literally right. [00:13:49] Speaker B: Who did DT sue out of business? [00:13:50] Speaker A: It's like right there. [00:13:55] Speaker B: It's right there. [00:13:56] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I mean they're the ones he back. [00:13:58] Speaker B: Huh? What? PC Beck. And he drew a whole family of these characters. [00:14:05] Speaker A: The Swiss Family Robinson. [00:14:08] Speaker B: No, Tarzan. Captain Marvel. [00:14:12] Speaker A: Captain Marvel. I don't know. [00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah. In addition to writing sci fi pulps, Otto Bender wrote tons of Captain Marvel books. I see, I see. And then after they got put out of business, he five DC serial them. Juliet's mad about it. [00:14:28] Speaker A: She is mad about. I'd be mad about it. [00:14:32] Speaker B: They. She's really mad about like really mad people. She's so mad. So mad. Very angry dog. See, you're on camera. You see me letting her know. Feelings. Anyway, so we've got a dog catcher, which is perfect timing. That's why Juliet's upset, because I thought you were. Crypto's bringing Superboy a car. But he's not up. He's upset about it. [00:15:04] Speaker A: Yeah, Superboy. Yeah, well, I mean he's getting a car from a dog. Who doesn't want that? [00:15:11] Speaker B: In fact, Juliet is so happy. Come Join us right now. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Oh, hey, Juliet. How are you? [00:15:18] Speaker B: In honor of this book of Crypto the dog. And we'll always let Juliet join us. [00:15:24] Speaker A: Of course, she can say whatever she wants. If she has opinions that are good or bad or, you know, whatever she wants to say, it's fine. [00:15:34] Speaker B: But Juliet's very upset because we get to the first page and the dog catcher is catching all the dogs. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, catching them all. Throwing them back of the truck and just not having it. [00:15:49] Speaker B: And a bunch of them. And then a dog bursts out of the side of the truck and all the dogs are running away. And Superboy, because he is a jerk, grabs all the dogs and puts them in the truck. Of course, I think he's seen lady and the Tramp. [00:16:07] Speaker A: We tried to get my grandma to watch the. The new version of it and we got almost. We were like almost to the end of it. But yeah, that whole entire scene of the. Of the dogs getting out so good. And, and even in animated. Animated or the new version, just everything is really great. [00:16:24] Speaker B: But, well, Superboy is very. Superboy is a jerk. [00:16:30] Speaker A: Super boy is a jerk. Superman boy. [00:16:33] Speaker B: It's all the dogs back and helps the dog catcher fix the truck with wood. [00:16:38] Speaker A: What a punk. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Also, do you know why we have to help dog catchers in the books? [00:16:44] Speaker A: Why? Because it makes do out of the dogs. [00:16:47] Speaker B: Well, no, because I was going to. [00:16:49] Speaker A: Go back to this. [00:16:49] Speaker B: Remember this comics code authority thing. Remember this light friendly episode? [00:16:53] Speaker A: We were having a light friendly episode. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Well, let me, let me tell you some general standards. Policemen, judges, government officials and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority. [00:17:08] Speaker A: Oh, man. Superboy, man, has to help out the dog catcher dude to make him and not put him down, but put him up. Even though he's a guy that catches dogs that might not even be doing bad things, just out living a life. Yes, because the comic code authority said, you gotta put him up. [00:17:31] Speaker B: Well, Krypto is wandering out in the face, and Superboy is not working on the farm. He's working in the Kent General Store. [00:17:37] Speaker A: Well, the Kent General Store because his, his dad told him that he had to go work there with him because. [00:17:44] Speaker B: He works in the Kent General Store. How we got the mythos of the farm is always makes me laugh. But we're in the Kent General Store and outside suddenly, before the thieves can reach their escape car, because we got some thievery going. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Yeah, they were, they were, they were stealing from the store. They held it up, man. [00:18:02] Speaker B: These thieves. These thieves in the store are very like 50 gangster thieves. They're wearing the hats. They've got. All got guns. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Yeah, we got gats. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Here he is. [00:18:12] Speaker A: We're gonna. We're gonna. [00:18:13] Speaker B: What are you gonna rob from the Kent General Store in freaking Smallville? I'm sure they just had tons of cash on. They're gonna. [00:18:19] Speaker A: Oh, we see. You got everything here. We're gonna take. [00:18:22] Speaker B: Sit off. [00:18:24] Speaker A: See? [00:18:24] Speaker B: Well, the dog runs squeeze again. Well, they're not gonna put the squeeze for long because the dog runs after them. They're like, blast that stray mongrel. Shoot him. And somebody on the sidewalk. He's like, poor little pooch, he doesn't stand a chance. [00:18:39] Speaker A: Oh, he does. [00:18:40] Speaker B: And these guys shoot the dog. Don't they know this is how you get Keanu Reeves to murder you? [00:18:46] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:18:47] Speaker B: Over and over again. [00:18:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, that's true. I mean, it's like, you just don't go. Gangsters don't shoot dogs. Gangsters don't go shooting doggies. [00:18:59] Speaker B: Well, the good news is he's not going to die. That's good, because you'll know general standards. No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror. Oh, wait. [00:19:09] Speaker A: Oh. [00:19:10] Speaker B: Oh, number two. My bad. Okay. All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted. [00:19:20] Speaker A: Oh. [00:19:21] Speaker B: All lurid and unsavory gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated. [00:19:25] Speaker A: So, hold on. When was Grimmore introduced into the DC Universe? [00:19:29] Speaker B: Hey, Grimbor was proof by the code, but that was later on. [00:19:33] Speaker A: It was tying up young men with chains. [00:19:37] Speaker B: He was tying up women, which he. [00:19:38] Speaker A: Was trying to have everybody with chains. Dan. He was chaining them all up. [00:19:43] Speaker B: Well, due to the Comics Code authority, we know Crypto is going to be okay because the bullets are bouncing off him because they can't have blood or anything. That's right. [00:19:50] Speaker A: Yeah. And. And he's. And he' Crypto the magic dog. [00:19:55] Speaker B: Well, we don't know that. Oh, yeah. But right now, like, holy crap. And then Clark Kent goes to find Crypto in an alley, and he's chewing on one of the guns. [00:20:05] Speaker A: I thought it was a bone at first, but no, he's like, I like taste of guns. Yummy. [00:20:11] Speaker B: And then he yip, yip, yips away. And Superboy is chasing him. And Superboy's like that, too. Gosh, there's only one name for him. Superdog. As he flies away. [00:20:24] Speaker A: And he does a. [00:20:25] Speaker B: So he's fast. [00:20:26] Speaker A: Just a quick Change. Like, did he have his super suit, like, underneath his clothes that he just like, boom, boom, and then, like, takes off? Like, it's like instant. [00:20:36] Speaker B: Well, he just left his clothes in the alley. [00:20:37] Speaker A: So, yeah, he just like, boom. And then turned into Superman. His clothes just were. They disintegrated. Imagine clothes like that all the time, Dan. You're just, like, constant. [00:20:51] Speaker B: That's why his parents own a general store, because they can have all the clothes. Imported ballin'. So you can just change out. [00:20:58] Speaker A: Change out. [00:20:59] Speaker B: Well, suddenly. Suddenly we get to the next page, and Superboy flies up in the air and Cryptid turns around and starts licking his face. [00:21:08] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. [00:21:10] Speaker B: And he's like, please, doggy, enough super licking. Doesn't he just know the doggies want to give kisses? They do, right? Juliet, you like to give kisses. [00:21:18] Speaker A: When I was reading this book, Little Miss V, Piggy Smalls was on my lap while I was reading the book, and she's just sitting there licking my hand the whole time. [00:21:34] Speaker B: Well, and Juliet is back because this is a dog celebration episode. [00:21:37] Speaker A: Dog celebration. [00:21:38] Speaker B: I don't know if she's going to give me kisses right now. We're not at the right angle. Everybody wants to see kisses on camera, though, right? That's true. [00:21:44] Speaker A: It's a kiss cam. Every since the last three weeks have been nothing but kiss cam, right? [00:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah. And this is a much better kiss cam than that. So. [00:21:52] Speaker A: But when. Well, aren't you going to play the Coldplay? [00:21:56] Speaker B: No. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Why not? [00:21:57] Speaker B: So. No. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Why not? [00:21:59] Speaker B: So it's played out. [00:22:01] Speaker A: So. [00:22:03] Speaker B: They find a bone underground, and Crypto digs into the earth and grabs the bone. And then Superboy starts playing super fast. [00:22:11] Speaker A: It's crazy. That's how they find the unsolved mystery. They. They solve the unsolved mystery that's happened so long ago. They find the serial killer, Blue, who's been killing people out in the middle of Kansas and leaving their bodies out there in the. [00:22:26] Speaker B: No. [00:22:26] Speaker A: Yeah, because that's what happens. Crypto finds the bone. That's. That's a femur, dude. [00:22:33] Speaker B: Yeah, but we can't talk about that because. [00:22:35] Speaker A: Oh, because. [00:22:38] Speaker B: Yeah, Fiends dealing with. Or instruments associated with walking. Oh, that's vampires and stuff. Okay. [00:22:46] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue. And in no case shall evil be presented alluringly, nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader. So we can't do that. [00:23:04] Speaker A: But Crypto's helping a family in need of mourning. And look. [00:23:08] Speaker B: Yeah, you cannot. No. Yep. So there you go. [00:23:16] Speaker A: All right. [00:23:16] Speaker B: We can't do it. It said. It says. It says right there. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Okay. Deep, deep conversation. You're right. So then. Then what happens? Then they find his crypto keeper. Just like. [00:23:29] Speaker B: Wow. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Just like a crypto. Is it a crypto wallet? [00:23:33] Speaker B: Like a crypt? Or a trapper keeper. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Is it a crypt? So, trapper keeper or a crypto wallet? [00:23:38] Speaker B: Crypto wallet. Is it a crypto? Well, anyway, they find a rocket, and Superboy finds a written record on paper from his parent. [00:23:48] Speaker A: A written record in the rocket. [00:23:51] Speaker B: Yeah. And then we get the saddest thing ever. [00:23:53] Speaker A: So, like, say that three times fast, people. Written record in the rocket. Yeah. [00:23:57] Speaker B: Rick. Rick and rocket record. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Rick and Rick and rocket record. [00:24:03] Speaker B: Ricky Ticky Tabby. [00:24:04] Speaker A: Green rocket. [00:24:05] Speaker B: Green rocket record. [00:24:06] Speaker A: Whoa. So that's an interesting thing. Crypto has a green rocket, everyone. [00:24:12] Speaker B: Well, yeah, we were just getting to that. Yes, yes, he does have a green rocket. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Green rocket. [00:24:21] Speaker B: And we find out that his dad had been experimenting, like shooting monkeys into space. Crypto's dad, Beppo, the Super Monkey, by the way. [00:24:30] Speaker A: What? [00:24:31] Speaker B: Beppo the Super Monkey? [00:24:32] Speaker A: Beppo the super monkey. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Oh, this isn't his story, though. [00:24:36] Speaker A: It's not his story. [00:24:37] Speaker B: Can we read the story next? Well, basically, what we learn once again is that, yes, we could read a Beppo story. But maybe not next. But maybe so. Okay, we could find a Beppo story. [00:24:48] Speaker A: I want to. [00:24:49] Speaker B: But what we do find out is that Superboy's parents are monsters. [00:24:58] Speaker A: They're monsters. Okay. Why are they monsters? [00:25:00] Speaker B: Because they take little baby Kal El's dog. [00:25:04] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:05] Speaker B: And tell him our planet may blow up at any moment. Time is too short to seek more test animals like Beppo the super monkey. I'm sorry, but I must use crypto now. It's an emergency. So he takes his little puppy and he puts him in a rocket ship and launches him into space. His rocket gets hit by a comet and he just goes off into space. And by the way, if you want to read something else, there is a crypto series out right now that is explaining what happens to Crypto after his rocket gets hit and before he gets to Earth. [00:25:46] Speaker A: Oh, crazy. Here's a question now, isn't that the same? [00:25:49] Speaker B: And it is adorable. [00:25:50] Speaker A: Isn't. [00:25:51] Speaker B: As you might imagine, isn't that similar. [00:25:52] Speaker A: To what happened to Supergirl? Like, her rocket gets hit by a comet and she. [00:25:57] Speaker B: Well, you have to understand that Supergirl become. Comes after crypto. [00:26:01] Speaker A: Well, yes, she comes after Crypto. But she was also launched before California. Like before. [00:26:06] Speaker B: Yes, yes. All of this. All of this is. [00:26:08] Speaker A: These are books. [00:26:09] Speaker B: She came from Argo City. [00:26:12] Speaker A: I see where all the Argo is kept. [00:26:17] Speaker B: Yes. [00:26:19] Speaker A: We're off. [00:26:21] Speaker B: You save the Earth, I mess up the song. Travis will be so mad at me if I mess up the Starblazer song. [00:26:27] Speaker A: Yes, yes. Do you think she wears. [00:26:29] Speaker B: I'm not even going to try now. [00:26:30] Speaker A: Does she wear Argo shorts? [00:26:34] Speaker B: No. [00:26:35] Speaker A: Why not? [00:26:35] Speaker B: But wasn't the Argo the ship in battle in star blazers? [00:26:40] Speaker A: No. Yeah. No. Now I gotta look. I would have thought you would have known 100% because you watched it every morning. [00:26:51] Speaker B: I did watch it every morning. [00:26:52] Speaker A: Come on. [00:26:53] Speaker B: So Travis is like a super fan. This is Travis Webb, co author of Starlight, among many other things. All right, well, anyway, our. [00:27:03] Speaker A: Our. [00:27:04] Speaker B: Once we get the origin of Crypto and he now is on Earth and Superboy finds out this is his pup and he gets him. They start playing until very bad things happen. Is Greg's trying to figure out these ship on Starblazers. I am. [00:27:21] Speaker A: Well, is yamamoja on page 5. The ship battleship model spaceship bottom Yamamoto. [00:27:27] Speaker B: But it was the Yamamoto. You're right. [00:27:29] Speaker A: But renamed historical Yamamoto, but is renamed the Argo after the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. [00:27:37] Speaker B: I was right. [00:27:39] Speaker A: So in the dub version. Because also the Yamamoto is named after the ship. The battleship. The real battleship was a World War II battleship, and they used it. Used that name in the anime. And then it was problematic when it came to America. So it's the Arago here. But for anybody watching it in ova, you get it as the Yamamoto. [00:28:11] Speaker B: Well, Crypto and Superboy start playing and there's a passenger plane very likely made by McDonald Douglas. [00:28:22] Speaker A: Yeah, that totally looks like a MACD plane. [00:28:25] Speaker B: It is falling apart. [00:28:27] Speaker A: Well, I mean, Crypto's not helping. He bites the wing. [00:28:30] Speaker B: Oh. Crypto said buy take a bite out. [00:28:32] Speaker A: Of the wing and he just, like, ripped it off. He likes tasty things made of metal. I love tasting metal. [00:28:38] Speaker B: And instead of immediately saving the terrified passengers, Superboy chases Crypto down to grab the wing and then he puts it back on as they're in a nosedive. I mean, how many people died in that plane from hitting their heads and dying and their cigarettes lighting the inside of the plane on fire? Oh, that's while Superboy was doing this. [00:29:00] Speaker A: All good questions because they probably weren't using seat belts at the time. They were smoking all sorts of stuff going on in 1955. Wow. Safety measures. Not there. Not living the life of a safety ranger. [00:29:17] Speaker B: Well, he grabs Crypto by the scruff and brings him over. And in a secluded area, Crypto. He starts building Crypto at doghouse. And Crypto so sweetly brings him big rocks to help him. [00:29:29] Speaker A: Well, that's nice. [00:29:31] Speaker B: And Superboy, being the complete asshole he is, well, he does make a pile of bones there where he get. But he chains Crypto to the inside of a house and just leaves him there. [00:29:42] Speaker A: What a jerk. [00:29:44] Speaker B: But first, he gives him a bath. [00:29:46] Speaker A: With his tongue? [00:29:49] Speaker B: No, he uses, like, some scrubbing. Barbed wire. So he scrubs him with barbed wire. [00:29:54] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:29:54] Speaker B: Crypto looks very unhappy. [00:29:56] Speaker A: I would be unhappy, too. This dog looks like it. I. Okay, now, again, in this image right here, does this dog not look like it deserves a cowboy hat? And. And like. And they have a voice like, well, hey there, partner. It has that kind of look. This dog. It does. [00:30:18] Speaker B: This dog is adorable. Especially when he lays sad in his little dog house. [00:30:22] Speaker A: Well, from here on out, this dog is sad. [00:30:26] Speaker B: Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul sent me a clip. [00:30:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:30:29] Speaker B: Today. Saying that dogs developed a muscle in their eyebrows to just. To communicate with humans and look sad so you would give them things. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Well, they do it really well. I'm sure Juliet does it pretty good. [00:30:42] Speaker B: Oh, Juliet does it very well. [00:30:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:30:45] Speaker B: Just lays her head down just like this. And she looks at me. [00:30:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:49] Speaker B: She's like. That's why we started a tiny bit late. Well, we would have started, like, three minutes late because I had to take Ms. Juliet for a walk because she just looks so sad. [00:30:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:59] Speaker B: And then since it's over 80 degrees, I had to take a quick shower after the walk because in Washington state, we melt when it's over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, man. And it's too hot. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Too hot. [00:31:10] Speaker B: So. Well, anyway, Superboy turns back into Clark Kent, and he's wandering around, and then we see Crypto carrying a big girder walking through town. [00:31:19] Speaker A: Why does Crypto like metal so much? [00:31:23] Speaker B: Okay, he wants to play fetch, and he likes to carry big sticks. You've seen Juliet carrying the big sticks. [00:31:27] Speaker A: In the water when she goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see. I see. [00:31:31] Speaker B: They like big sticks. [00:31:32] Speaker A: They like. [00:31:32] Speaker B: And his tail's wagging. He's a happy boy. [00:31:35] Speaker A: Happy boy. [00:31:36] Speaker B: He's a very happy boy. And so Superboy grabs the. Grabs the girder, and of course he's like, oh, no, Lana Lang is coming. She's going to see me because he was too stupid. And then Lana says, clark, what's that big thing you carried here. Where is it? [00:31:52] Speaker A: Where'd it go? [00:31:54] Speaker B: And then she says, oh, yes, you do. It was a steel, heavy steel girder. I saw with my own eyes. You must have flung it away with your super strength, proving you're Superboy at last. And Clark. Clark is like, you're just jumping to conclusions again, Lana. And she says, am I what? I can't worm out of it this time I'm convinced. [00:32:14] Speaker A: Wow. [00:32:15] Speaker B: From now on, I'll call you by your right name, Superboy. Clark's like, thinking, wow, well, I'll worry about that later. Right now, I better chase down that pesky dog and return the girder. [00:32:28] Speaker A: Gotta get that dog. [00:32:29] Speaker B: So after a swift change in a flashing leap into space, Crypto and Superboy are. [00:32:35] Speaker A: He threw. [00:32:36] Speaker B: Playing in outer space together, chasing comets and playing baseball. [00:32:40] Speaker A: He threw Crypto into space. Essentially, he threw the girder into space and Crypto chased it into space. And you know why? Do you know why, Dan? [00:32:49] Speaker B: Why? [00:32:49] Speaker A: Because space is the place. [00:32:54] Speaker B: That's not where I was going. But they come back to Earth and Crypto runs through a wall chasing a cat. Oh, that's terrible. Crypto and Superboy go and fix the bridge. They put the girder back, and Crypto, he's got a little pause on there. [00:33:11] Speaker A: Looking all excited and everything. [00:33:14] Speaker B: He's fixing it. And then Superboy, because he's a jerk, he's like, you're really in the doghouse to be Crypto. What am I going to do with you? Instead of super fun, you're turning out to be super trouble for me. Especially by giving away my identity to Lana. Link, a jerk does not Superboy not realize that he's supposed to take care of his dog and help train the dog. You don't blame the dog for being a dog. [00:33:36] Speaker A: Dog just wants to have. [00:33:37] Speaker B: It's like these people that adopt puppies and then complain because they act like puppies. [00:33:42] Speaker A: I know the dog just wants to play. Just gotta let the dog do dog things. And then you just to you, You. You pick up the dog yam yams. And. And you clean up after them. And if they chew up something, you fix it or throw it away or cry about it later if it's a $100 bill. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Well, he does change his tune. But he says, but wait. I've just thought of the perfect way to handle Lana. All I need are my cape and a homemade boomerang and dad Kent's new ladder. And is he MacGyver now? [00:34:16] Speaker A: Oh, wow, he's. Yeah, he's Pulling him a guyver. [00:34:20] Speaker B: Okay, well, anyway, he starts carrying a ladder and Lana's like, hello there, Superboy. Guess you gave up trying to fool me more. You're carrying that heavy steel ladder right before my eyes. Oh, and he says, hey, catch. And he's like, have you heard of these new magnesium ladder? Holy. He's going to burn her. What? [00:34:41] Speaker A: I think he. Well, I mean he's gaslighting her for sure. [00:34:45] Speaker B: Magnesium ladder. [00:34:47] Speaker A: Magnesium. Let me, let me throw this at you in my. And then I'll get my flint and steel out and set you on fire. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Lana, Let me see where in the code it talks about this. [00:34:56] Speaker A: And why is he going to burn it? Because he's a witch. [00:34:58] Speaker B: Advertise the sale code for advertising. Do you know you couldn't sell fireworks in magazines? [00:35:04] Speaker A: Oh man. Because they're too hot. [00:35:06] Speaker B: Liquor, tobacco, sex, pinups, art studies, knives, realistic gun track, similes, fireworks, gambling, nudity. Well, I guess to the best of his ability. Each publisher shall ascertain that all statements made in advertisements conform to the fact and avoid misrepresentation. How the hell does he monkeys make it in? [00:35:28] Speaker A: They gotta. They're in one of the prize giveaways. There's a.22 rifle in there. [00:35:34] Speaker B: Well, I don't know how it made it through the code. [00:35:36] Speaker A: It passed the code somehow. Well, it's the first month. I mean they, they were. [00:35:41] Speaker B: Well, anyway, Superboy, continuing to be a complete jerk, uses Crypto to trick Lana Gaslighting. And then he sends crypto into outer space. Oh, well, he just said. But I still love still crypto. Much as I love you. You spell trouble for me. I wish I knew what to do with you. I'll have to sleep on it. So he takes him to the doghouse and he locks him up. But the next morning, Crypto is gone. Why is Crypto is playing in outer space? Superbuy is like Crypto. My pal Go. The only dog I've ever known I ever had. Maybe he'll come back once in a while just to say hello. Well, maybe you weren't such a jerk. Crypto would have stuck around. [00:36:30] Speaker A: Superboy treated him super bad. Superboy, so you get super. [00:36:35] Speaker B: He talked to Ma and Pa Kent and got their advice. [00:36:37] Speaker A: Yeah, but you got nothing now. No dog, no car, no girl. You're a country song. [00:36:46] Speaker B: Did you know you can get a US government job that pays up to $4,205 a year to start? [00:36:55] Speaker A: Whoa, really? What kind of jobs can you get? [00:36:59] Speaker B: It doesn't say. [00:37:00] Speaker A: It does too. [00:37:02] Speaker B: But it does say Vet. Vets get a preference. And it does say a grade school education is required. [00:37:07] Speaker A: I mean, I got. I got a grade school education. It says you can be a railway. [00:37:14] Speaker B: Clerk, a railway mail clerk, postal clerk, city or rural carrier, office clerk, border patrol. Well, some things don't change. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Some things don't change. [00:37:23] Speaker B: And I think, you know, pretty soon you're going to be able to get lots of government jobs, too, because they fired everyone in the government, and so there's lots of jobs. [00:37:33] Speaker A: Oh, hey, cool. Well, Prepare now for 1955. [00:37:40] Speaker B: Well, while we are not going to cover these other stories today on the podcast. Okay, we're going to do a little short podcast today because Greg has things to do. Yeah, he did a very busy week. But we do get the first undersea newspaper. [00:37:57] Speaker A: Undersea newspaper, which I don't understand, but, I mean. And it was. It was hard for me to understand, but I guess he used Octopus, Inc. And Aquaman's like, yo, I'm passing out these newspapers. I got my dolphin on it, and if you don't like it, my dolphin's gonna mess you up. He'll bite your butt. And I'm gonna ride these, like, other dolphins around on my flipper feet to, like, go distribute the newspaper that I. I got stuck in a whale. [00:38:29] Speaker B: Did you know that this comic, this Aquaman comic, was inked and penciled by a woman that retired and died last year? [00:38:40] Speaker A: I did not. [00:38:42] Speaker B: Ramona for Don Drew Aquaman story. [00:38:45] Speaker A: The whole thing. I mean, it is a really. [00:38:47] Speaker B: It's. [00:38:48] Speaker A: It's a really. [00:38:49] Speaker B: It's a. [00:38:49] Speaker A: It's a good story. And that's why I was kind of like, you didn't read this, man. It's, like, interesting, but it's crazy to me that, like, he's. He's making a newspaper underwater and then. [00:39:01] Speaker B: No, I played the hats game. [00:39:02] Speaker A: You play. Oh, you play the hats game. Okay. And got all the hats. Name all the hats. [00:39:08] Speaker B: There's also a Green Arrow story in here. By George Pat. [00:39:11] Speaker A: What got me was the United nations at work. Side. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:39:17] Speaker A: Side comic here. And if you look at all the countries coming together to help Iran on the airplanes that are flying over Pakistan and India and the US and the ussr all countries, I don't think are working together on anything at this moment. [00:39:34] Speaker B: They're all helping Iran. Huh? They weren't bombing them. [00:39:37] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't think any of these countries are helping. This is. And the unit. Yeah, this is a. This is. This is a dated country. [00:39:44] Speaker B: Well, India and Pakistan definitely wouldn't been hanging out with planes next to each other either. [00:39:48] Speaker A: So they might have been 1955, but definitely not now. [00:39:52] Speaker B: Well, did you read the striking it rich short story. [00:39:57] Speaker A: About uranium? Yeah, I read some of it and then I got lost in the sauce. [00:40:03] Speaker B: Do you think Mr. Pluto was here, too? [00:40:06] Speaker A: No, Mr. Pluto. [00:40:09] Speaker B: For people that don't know our inside joke from our debate days, Mr. Pluto was the Japanese cartoon promoting the safe use of plutonium. [00:40:17] Speaker A: Plutonium, Yes. [00:40:18] Speaker B: I believe Mr. Pluto had fallen out of favor in Japan after Fukushima in. [00:40:24] Speaker A: Yes, yes, Mr. Pluto. [00:40:28] Speaker B: But, you know, and we have a Green Arrow story, too. [00:40:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the Green Arrow story. Is it. It is. [00:40:35] Speaker B: It's crazy. Green Arrow and his junkie sidekick. [00:40:38] Speaker A: Hey, he was. He was clean. He was living a clean life at this moment, Dan. [00:40:43] Speaker B: How do you know I. Oh, I. How do you know? [00:40:47] Speaker A: How do I. [00:40:48] Speaker B: In fact, we. We. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Fact Find for me, Dan. Fact find. Let. [00:40:51] Speaker B: Let me fact find for you. [00:40:53] Speaker A: You're gonna call it out. You better have the facts, man. Well, if you're going to call out Speedy and say he was on the. If he was. If he was shooting general standards criminal. [00:41:07] Speaker B: Scenes and violence. Let's see, dialogue, religion, costumes. I mean, I'm trying to find stuff. [00:41:19] Speaker A: About drugs in 1955. Was he on the H or not? I don't think he was. [00:41:23] Speaker B: I think he was. [00:41:24] Speaker A: Oh, you think he was chasing. [00:41:26] Speaker B: Maybe he was. [00:41:26] Speaker A: He's on the white. [00:41:27] Speaker B: Maybe he was on the green. Greenies. [00:41:29] Speaker A: He's on the green. The mean greenies. [00:41:31] Speaker B: What if they'd given crypto a greenie? [00:41:33] Speaker A: He's already got a greenie. Green racket. [00:41:36] Speaker B: Yeah. He would have been so happy. He just would have brushed his little teeth. [00:41:40] Speaker A: Yeah, he was just like, chewed him up, I guess. [00:41:43] Speaker B: I guess it falls under, crime shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of forces of law, justice. [00:41:50] Speaker A: I see. [00:41:51] Speaker B: Trying to find stuff about. There's got to be something about drugs here. [00:41:54] Speaker A: Well, me, I don't know. [00:41:55] Speaker B: I'm tired of reading about this stupid code. It's pissing me off. [00:41:58] Speaker A: I think. I think at this moment, in this time in juncture, Speedy has sped away from the speed and he. [00:42:08] Speaker B: Well, did you know that scenes dealing with. Or instruments associated with walking dead torture, vampires, vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism and werewolves are prohibited. [00:42:17] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. Well, how did this guy. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Universal monsters. [00:42:21] Speaker A: How'd this villain make it in? Because he's freaking ghoul if you ever seen one. Look at him. Look at him. Look at him. Dan. Oh, I'm sorry. He's not Dex. [00:42:29] Speaker B: Perversion or any inference to the same is strictly forbidden. [00:42:33] Speaker A: He's got both of those too. Look at him. Look at him. [00:42:38] Speaker B: Speedy. [00:42:38] Speaker A: No, the. The villain in the story. [00:42:42] Speaker B: Are you sure? Speedy doesn't. [00:42:43] Speaker A: I. Why are you keeping bad guys? Why do you keep going? What. What is your deal about Speedy? You got something for the Speedy? This. [00:42:52] Speaker B: I know what comes in the future. That's why. Like, I'm not. It's. Well, there. There are guns for sale in here. What the hell? [00:43:00] Speaker A: I told you it's a.22 rifle, man. [00:43:04] Speaker B: Oh, maybe a.22 rifle isn't a real firearm. [00:43:07] Speaker A: Excuse me, but 22 rifle will do the damage. [00:43:12] Speaker B: Men, women, boys, girls, yours for only one cent. The stunning assortment of 21 all occasion greeting cards. [00:43:19] Speaker A: Oh, 21 all occasion greeting cards. And solves. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Well, that's on another United nations stamps. [00:43:25] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Stamps. Well, man, I don't know. [00:43:29] Speaker B: What do you think. What do you think of. Of our first comic code story? Comic code? Comic code Adventure. Comic story. Here I thought it was Crypto the super dog. [00:43:39] Speaker A: I thought Crypto the super dog was pretty good. I feel bad that Superboy was such Chad and made super. [00:43:47] Speaker B: He is super super dog. [00:43:49] Speaker A: Crypto. [00:43:53] Speaker B: Crypto in space. He doesn't even try to go find him. He's like, what if Crypto gets in the way of a spaceship and gets hit? [00:43:58] Speaker A: I know. Or it gets like. You know, just. There's so many. [00:44:04] Speaker B: You didn't even microchip him. [00:44:05] Speaker A: I know so many variables. [00:44:07] Speaker B: He could have taken him to the Fortress of Solitude and he could have done. Had him hang out there and play there. Like there's all sorts of things he could have done. [00:44:13] Speaker A: He could have taught him to be a good boy. Instead, he just treated him like a bad one. He's no better than the dog catcher who he takes. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Well, he is the dog catcher because. Because of. [00:44:29] Speaker A: He is the dog catcher. [00:44:31] Speaker B: Yeah. In every instance, good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds. Nothing. [00:44:39] Speaker A: But Mr. Deeds. That if. If, if Superboy's Mr. Deeds and we gotta go smack his foot with a. With a fire poker. No. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Well, maybe it's because he couldn't keep the dog and. And protect him. Because it says here the crime of kidnapping shall never be portrayed in any detail, nor shall any profit accrue for to the abductor or kidnapper, the criminal or the kidnapper must be punished in every case. So maybe that's why he couldn't hold him there. Because he was kidnapping Krypto. [00:45:13] Speaker A: Kidnapping Tripto. What the heck, man? [00:45:15] Speaker B: Well, we just have to make sure the book aligns with the code. [00:45:18] Speaker A: Right. [00:45:19] Speaker B: We wouldn't want to, like, violate. [00:45:20] Speaker A: Is it kidnapping or crypto napping? And is crypto napping the same as it was back then in 1955 now? Or is it different? Or just because the name. And could D.C. sue because of the use of the name Crypto? These are questions. [00:45:38] Speaker B: I want to know. Well, they didn't. Why didn't they? [00:45:40] Speaker A: They should have crypto. [00:45:42] Speaker B: This book also says crypto never received his own book. But they are wrong because crypto has his own book. [00:45:47] Speaker A: Right now crypto's got his own book. [00:45:49] Speaker B: Well, they should have said at the time crypto had never received his own book. But now you never know what the future is going to be like. [00:45:56] Speaker A: You never know. You never know the future, man. Like, I've gone to one of those machines that tells you the future, and it. It might tell you one future, but then you get a. A cookie, and the cookie will tell you something different. And then the tea leaves will tell you something different. And then. And then at the. At the fair, the palm reader tells you something different. [00:46:26] Speaker B: Well, okay, I. That made sense. [00:46:30] Speaker A: You never know the future, Dan. [00:46:33] Speaker B: That made total sense. Everything you just said made complete sense. [00:46:39] Speaker A: It's true. [00:46:40] Speaker B: I have a glue stick. [00:46:42] Speaker A: What are you going to do with it? [00:46:46] Speaker B: I'm just adding to your commentary. [00:46:47] Speaker A: Oh. I mean, because you can, like, you could put glue on your. On your head and then like, glue other things onto it, like streamers, like. [00:46:59] Speaker B: I suppose. [00:46:59] Speaker A: I mean, because you have such a great palette for it. [00:47:04] Speaker B: All right, so anyway, Ace the Bat Hound introduced a couple months later, comics code in full effect. But we got a crypto story. Go watch the Superman movie because you get all the crypto you want. [00:47:16] Speaker A: And I was going to ask questions. [00:47:18] Speaker B: Right. [00:47:18] Speaker A: Stories I wanted to ask about Ace the Bat Dog. [00:47:22] Speaker B: Nah, we're done with the Bat Hound today. [00:47:24] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:24] Speaker B: He's not the real dog anyway, so. Yes. Yeah, we'll get. You can watch the super pets movie if you want to. [00:47:33] Speaker A: That's true. [00:47:33] Speaker B: That anyway. [00:47:34] Speaker A: That's true. [00:47:37] Speaker B: We gotta wrap this thing up, I think. So we can't babble on about this anymore. [00:47:40] Speaker A: Okay. [00:47:41] Speaker B: Or we just sound silly. But Greg wrote a comic book I did with Michael Tanner. [00:47:48] Speaker A: It is called the Absolute Zeros Camp launch pad. [00:47:52] Speaker B: It's a fantastic summer and it's a good book. Read it in the summer, but only. [00:47:57] Speaker A: No. Read it anytime you want to read. [00:48:00] Speaker B: It in the summer with some Kahlua and coffee. [00:48:03] Speaker A: We don't put any limits or any specifications on when and how you should read the book. [00:48:08] Speaker B: Ah, it's not about limits. [00:48:11] Speaker A: Huh? [00:48:12] Speaker B: The X Division title, it's not about weight limits. Oh, yeah. [00:48:17] Speaker A: No, it's not. It's not about limits. [00:48:21] Speaker B: Did it win the X Division title? [00:48:22] Speaker A: Who? The absolute zeros? [00:48:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:48:26] Speaker A: No, I mean, they're just a bunch of children, Dan. Oh. But they do go up against affordable competition. In the space camps. Yes. [00:48:39] Speaker B: Not evil space camps, just. Well, are you sure? Because this doesn't have the code on it. But if it did have the code. Yeah, I just saying they couldn't have evil spade camps now in your book. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:48:52] Speaker B: Let's see if it follows the code. I believe it does. Because all government officials are treated with respect. [00:48:59] Speaker A: Yeah, they are. [00:49:03] Speaker B: If crime is depicted, it shall be as stored and it show. Nope. Your book does not. Nope. Because there's crime in your book and it is not treated. [00:49:11] Speaker A: There is no crime. Are you seeing in the book? [00:49:16] Speaker B: Well, they break into things like children do. [00:49:21] Speaker A: It's not breaking. [00:49:22] Speaker B: I wouldn't have been. Okay. [00:49:23] Speaker A: It's not. It's not bad. It's not breaking in. It's no. [00:49:28] Speaker B: No code. No code for you. Nope. Don't read Greg's book. It does not have the comic authority on it. [00:49:34] Speaker A: People. They're not. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Comic code authority stamp for you. [00:49:37] Speaker A: They're not breaking in. They're just walking through a door. [00:49:41] Speaker B: No comic code authority stamp for you. You treat crime like it pays. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Well, I guess. [00:49:52] Speaker B: I can't believe it. No code for you. Which for the listeners, that means please read. Because no code means nobody was censoring Greg's. So there you go. You. [00:50:02] Speaker A: You might get a great story. [00:50:05] Speaker B: I'm gonna get the code stamped on me. There's an alligator catastrophe code authority. [00:50:11] Speaker A: There's an alligator inside a pool where children are swimming. Who knows what kind of things will happen? [00:50:17] Speaker B: Maybe there's an Allegheny. [00:50:18] Speaker A: An Allegheny what river? [00:50:20] Speaker B: I don't know if alligators in it. [00:50:22] Speaker A: I don't know. Texas. [00:50:24] Speaker B: Tate will find global warming would really have to happen if the alligators ruined the Allegheny. [00:50:28] Speaker A: The Allegheny. Okay, okay. Kind of like Growler Bear. [00:50:33] Speaker B: Yeah. All right. Oh, sorry. So Greg has a book. [00:50:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:50:37] Speaker B: Retro Emporium, Meeker Street, Kent, Washington. [00:50:40] Speaker A: Come check it out. [00:50:40] Speaker B: Greg and Anne. [00:50:41] Speaker A: Yeah, check it out. [00:50:42] Speaker B: Jiu Jitsu Lawyer Paul on Jackson slash Bridgeport and 27th to Tacoma. [00:50:48] Speaker A: Do it. [00:50:49] Speaker B: Not only will he help you with your employment situation, but he will also choke out the opposition. [00:50:56] Speaker A: He Will. And train you to do so just like that, Right? [00:51:03] Speaker B: To give you glutes. [00:51:04] Speaker A: To give you. Oh, thanks, Dan. Thanks. [00:51:07] Speaker B: And he will also, on top of that, transition. Dan will transition. Okay, that's it. Oh, wait. That's all the plugs we have right now. [00:51:16] Speaker A: That's all? [00:51:17] Speaker B: Yeah, at the moment. [00:51:18] Speaker A: That's it. [00:51:18] Speaker B: That's it. [00:51:19] Speaker A: Yeah, that's all. [00:51:20] Speaker B: We have more to come. That's all. We have something about cyborgs and weird stuff and things. But not now, but soon. Yeah, soon, but soon. Soon, but not now, but soon. And we're done. That's it. That's it. So until next time when we cover. [00:51:38] Speaker A: Another comic called Comic Book, called Book of Comics. [00:51:48] Speaker B: Greg, pick the book. [00:51:49] Speaker A: I. I can't pick a book. [00:51:51] Speaker B: Pick a book, pick a character, pick something. [00:51:56] Speaker A: I don't know, man. [00:51:57] Speaker B: There must be something Greg likes. I pick everything. [00:51:59] Speaker A: I. You know, I would love to read another Booster Gold book. [00:52:06] Speaker B: Okay. It will happen. [00:52:07] Speaker A: All right. [00:52:08] Speaker B: You want to. Which Booster Gold book did we read? [00:52:11] Speaker A: We didn't. Well, we read a book with Booster Gold in it, but we didn't read a Booster Gold book. [00:52:18] Speaker B: Well, we read the book. Yes, we read. So you want to read Booster Gold? [00:52:22] Speaker A: Why not? [00:52:22] Speaker B: Do you want to read the original Booster Gold or do you want to read the second series? [00:52:26] Speaker A: I read the second. [00:52:27] Speaker B: Or do you want to read, like, Countdown or you want to read. [00:52:34] Speaker A: I. I want to read some bng. I wanna. I want some. [00:52:38] Speaker B: You want Justice League. [00:52:43] Speaker A: Blue and gold, baby. Let's get. [00:52:45] Speaker B: Didn't we read them going. We read them going into hell. [00:52:49] Speaker A: Did we? Yeah, yeah. To go back and. [00:52:54] Speaker B: Or do you want old classic Booster Gold with Skeets and. [00:52:57] Speaker A: Yeah, let's get some Skeets in there, lady. [00:52:59] Speaker B: Booster Gold. [00:53:00] Speaker A: Yeah, let's get all. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Sister. [00:53:01] Speaker A: Let's all. [00:53:02] Speaker B: Let's get all that. Maybe we have to read number one. [00:53:06] Speaker A: All right. Number one. [00:53:07] Speaker B: I'm number one, though. [00:53:08] Speaker A: Well, we'll have to find. [00:53:10] Speaker B: It's expensive. [00:53:13] Speaker A: Okay. No, I guess we can't. [00:53:16] Speaker B: We can still read it. I have ways. We have the DC app. [00:53:19] Speaker A: Dude has ways. [00:53:20] Speaker B: He's got ways. You can legally read it. [00:53:24] Speaker A: Yeah, we got the Apple. There's an app for that. [00:53:26] Speaker B: Well, I may have spent some money recently. [00:53:29] Speaker A: Well, I told you not to buy the thing that you bought, and then you did. [00:53:35] Speaker B: You did not. [00:53:36] Speaker A: Oh, you bought something else. Why do you and Travis keep doing things? [00:53:41] Speaker B: What do you think I bought? [00:53:43] Speaker A: I thought you bought another comic book. [00:53:47] Speaker B: Oh, I bought lots of comic books, but I bought a copy of DC Comics presents number 26. Oh, Dan, do you know what happens in that book? [00:53:56] Speaker A: A lot of things. And it's a very expensive book. Dan. [00:54:00] Speaker B: You don't know what happens in that book. [00:54:01] Speaker A: It's a lot of things and it's very expensive. [00:54:04] Speaker B: Dan, what are the lot of things? [00:54:07] Speaker A: So many things, Dan. It's. [00:54:08] Speaker B: You can't talk about it. [00:54:11] Speaker A: It's a whole podcast itself, Dan. [00:54:15] Speaker B: Well, yeah, it would be because it was the first George Perez Marvel mint Teen Titans short story before the new Teen Titans book. [00:54:23] Speaker A: I just figured if I just kept saying it over and over again, you would get there. [00:54:26] Speaker B: I would just say, because I get annoyed with you. Yeah, that was what? [00:54:29] Speaker A: A lot of things. [00:54:29] Speaker B: Anyway, so anyway, moral of the story, we are all good, but. Yes. Okay, Booster Gold, we are reading. Booster Gold number one. [00:54:40] Speaker A: You want to open up your new comic book and read that? Dan. [00:54:44] Speaker B: What new comic book? [00:54:45] Speaker A: Your new one that you just got with the team, George Perez. [00:54:50] Speaker B: All right, you want to read Booster Gold number one. [00:54:54] Speaker A: You totally ignored me. All right, like, we're not opening. We're not reading. [00:54:58] Speaker B: I'm totally ignoring you right now. We're not reading that. [00:55:01] Speaker A: You and Travis keep doing things. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Well, be sure goal number one. It is. It looks like a great story. I've got a skeet, I've got Booster Gold, and I've got a villain that looks like the villains that were fighting Iron man in the stories that we were reading before I it in the casino. [00:55:21] Speaker A: All right, perfect. With a hair whipping and freezing and smacking and all that stuff. [00:55:27] Speaker B: It could. It could happen. [00:55:28] Speaker A: It's all going to be happening with Booster Gold helming the fight and the story. [00:55:33] Speaker B: First issue, excitement. Booster Gold Comics newest and most unusual superhero sensation. [00:55:38] Speaker A: I love it. You know why? Because he's such a chod. [00:55:43] Speaker B: All right, Booster Gold it is. Let's do it. I will talk to you next week then. [00:55:49] Speaker A: All right. [00:55:49] Speaker B: And the listeners. Well, I'll talk to you before next week, but the listeners, we're not talking to you till next week. [00:55:54] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:55:54] Speaker B: We've had enough. [00:55:55] Speaker A: Sorry, everybody. [00:55:56] Speaker B: Bye. [00:55:56] Speaker A: Bye. [00:55:58] Speaker B: Booster Gold number one. Read it before we do. Bye. [00:56:00] Speaker A: Do it. [00:56:05] Speaker B: We.