Today we talk about Klarion the Witch Boy, a terrible magic teen who, along with his cat familiar Teekl, is a nuisance to Etrigan the Demon, Young Justice, and pretty much everyone he comes across. He's pretty lonely, actually.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Demon (1972)
-Young Justice: Sins of Youth (2000)
-Young Justice (1998) #20
-Seven Soldiers (2005)
-Countdown (2007) #33
-Justice League of America (2006) #46
-Robin (1993) #157
-Batgirl (2009) #18
-Klarion (2014)
-Teen Titans: Future's End (2014) #1
-Young Justice (cartoon)

-Love Everlasting #1
-preview of Jurassic League

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Today we talk about Etrigan the Demon, who is, unsurprisingly, a demon. He's just a chaotic guy who got intrinsically linked with a human man named Jason Blood who can now summon him with a fun spooky poem.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Demon (1972)
-The Demon (1990)
-"you cannot kill me in a way that matters"
-Klarion the Witch Boy appearance
-Blood of the Demon (2005)
-Blackest Night: Batman (2009) #1, #2, #3
-Demon Knights (2011)
-Stormwatch (2011) #13
-Batman: Damned (2018)

-Superman & Robin Special (2022) #1
-Love Everlasting
-Real Hero Shit by Kendra Wells

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Today we talk about Betty Brant, a woman who has been a love interest, a secretary, and a reporter, and her husband Ned Leeds who has been a reporter and Hobgoblin, and the absolute buckwild stuff that comics has done with them.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #4
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #18
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #238
-Spider-Man Versus Wolverine (1987) #1
-Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives (1997)
-The Clone Conspiracy (2016) reading order
-The Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #15
-Web of Spider-Man (1985) #40
-The Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #67

-Superman and Robin Special (2022) #1
-HBOmax Peacemaker
-Ben Reilly Spider-Man (2022) preview

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Today we talk about Silvija Sablinova, best known as Silver Sable, who is a mercenary who leads Wild Pack, sometimes helps Spider-Man, and once faked her death to hunt her enemies from the shadows.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #265
-Silver Sable & the Wild Pack (1992)
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #279
-Web of Spider-Man (1985) #50
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #320
-Shadowland: Blood on the Streets (2010) #1
-Heroes for Hire (1997) #10
-Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #684
-Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #687
-The Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #25
-Sable & Fortune (2006)
-Sable's described dress and some other looks

-Batgirl costume

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Today we talk about Mary Jane Watson, who has arguably been one of the most important characters in Spider-Man for several decades as Peter Parker's sometimes-girlfriend, sometimes-wife, sometimes-deal-with-the-deviled-ex-wife.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Mary Jane's first "appearance" in The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #25
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #42
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #121
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #291
-Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #21
-Spider-Man: The Clone Saga (1994)
-Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #13
-Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #29
-Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #50
-Civil War (2006) reading order
-Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #538
-Spider-Man: One More Day (2007) reading order
-Spider-Man: One Moment in Time (2010)
-Spider-Man: Dying Wish (2012)
-Superior Spider-Man (2013) #1 & #2
-Invincible Iron Man (2015) #4
-The Amazing Spider-Man (2018)
-The Amazing Mary Jane (2019)
-The Wild Card

-Marvel X-Men vote (closes Jan 13, 2022)
-Dylan O'Brien as Nightwing rumors

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Today we talk about Flint Marko, or William Baker, but mostly Sandman, seeing as he's a man made of sand. Some times he fights Spider-Man, and sometimes he helps Spider-Man, and sometimes he just turns into a pile of sand on the beach.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #4
-Sandman 1981 cartoon - The Sandman is Coming
-Fantastic Four (1961) #36
-Incredible Hulk (1962) #113
-Marvel Team-Up (1972) #1
-Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #86
-The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #280
-Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #169
-Silver Sable & the Wild Pack (1992) #1
-Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #22
-Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #615
-Spongebob - Dying for Pie
-Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2017) #308

-Superman & Robin Special (2022) #1
-Dark Knights of Steel (2021) #3
-Valkyrie's new suit in Thor 4

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Today we talk about a man who has been called many things over the eons--Morpheus, Dream, The Sandman. He's an incredibly powerful entity but also kind of just a guy who looks kinda goth.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Golden Age Sandman
-The Sandman by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon (1940's-1970's)
-The Sandman (1989)
-Sandman reading order

-Tis the Season to be Freezin' (2021)
-The Batman Trailer

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Today we talk about Lucas Carr, introduced and best known as Snapper, a cool teen who became an honorary member of the Justice League, betrayed them, got kidnapped into space, got superpowers, joined a superhero team, lost his powers, joined an evil organization....

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Brave and the Bold (1955) #28
-Justice League of America (1960) #77
-Justice League of America (1960) #114
-Justice League of America (1960) #149
-JLA: Year One (1998)
-Invasion! (1989) reading order
-Hourman (1999) #20
-Young Justice (1998) #38
-52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen (2007) #3
-Final Crisis: Resist (2008)
-Dial H for Hero (2019)

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Today we mostly talk about Dan Richards and Mark Shaw in this roundup of the rest of the Manhunters (NOT the robots, though some of them were recruited by the robots) who are not Kate Spencer, Paul Kirk, or a version of Paul Kirk.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-All-Star Squadron (1981) #31
-Millennium (1988) reading order
-Manhunter (2004) #7
-1st Issue Special (1975) #5
-Manhunter (1988)
-Justice League of America (1960) #149
-Suicide Squad (1987) #8
-Eclipso (1992) #11
-Manhunter (2004) #28
-Event Leviathan (2019) #6
-Zero Hour (1994) #4
-Manhunter (1994) #0 (the rest of the series doesn't look to be officially digitized)
-Manhunter (2004) #10

-Blue and Gold (2021) #4
-Nightwing 2021 Annual
-Wayne Family Adventures webtoon

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Today we talk about Paul Kirk, and also Paul Kirk, and Paul Kirk, and Paul Kirk.... there's a lot of this guy, and only partly because of all his clones, but he's been known through his many incarnations as Manhunter.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-All-Star Squadron (1981) #31
-Manhunter Detective Comics backups (1973)
-Millennium (1988) reading order

-The Human Target (2021) #2
-Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer
-Hawkeye on Disney+

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