Bruce Rosenberger of KomicsKast  http://komicskast.libsyn.com/

Wayne Skiver of Wildcat books  http://www.wildcatbooks.net/

and Ric Croxton painfully swim through the Shadow from Archie Comics, the 8 issue series from 1963-64.

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I want to thank Sean and Jim from Raging Bullets for their promo of my podcast. Thanks guys, I appreciate this.

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David Luhn explains to Ric the Secret Agent and Prisoner and who John Drake is.

David Luhn has written several articles for "Legends" and "Comics Effects" among other magazines.

Ric and his 14 year old granddaughter try to figure out the Hammer movie "Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter".

Trinity, Ric's 7 year old granddaughter talk  briefly about "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" video game.

Craig Klotz, promoter of Kansas City Fan Conventions talks to Ric about comics and his conventions. We learn about the many comic book guests he has had in his conventions and upcoming guests and conventions for this year.

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Check out the promo at the end of the show for one of my favorite podcasts, SciFiDig.

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Art responds to a listener about episode 4.

For my First Commenter:

Thank you so much for your comments.  I felt compelled to do the Sun Koh stories as I learned more about the character.  Of all the Doc Savage clones, it appears that Sun Koh was the most successful with 150 stories in the original run.  It irked me that there were so many stories to which did not have access and I wrote the first Sun Koh story for my own enjoyment. It turned out well enough that I asked Wayne Skiver to publish it in his Professor Stone Magazine which he did. So far ,two of these stories are in print. Wayne is planning further editions of his Professor Stone Magazine later this year.

The fifth story is set during the 1934 Nazi annual rally in Nuremberg which was the subject of Leni Reifenstahl's famous propaganda film "The Triumph of the Will."  I think it is the best of the 5. I got Leni's film and reviewed it and did some research on Leni and the filming of the rally.  I tied all of the events in the story together with the actual history.  This story introduces one of the great tensions in the Sun Koh series. There is a plot to kill Hitler during the rally and Sun Koh is trying to prevent this.  At one and the same time, you are rooting for the protagonist while your sympathies lie with the plotters.  One part of good fiction is that it stretches your limits and challenges your thoughts and feelings.  Sun begins to have doubts about working with Hitler, but his actions not only save Hitler's life but also those of many others who are innocent.  As such, there is no simple "good guy/bad guy" dichotomy.  I also explore the excuses Sun Koh might give for continuing to align himself with the Nazis.  This also pulls you in different directions.

Nazism was a horrible thing but it was only one of the horrors of the 20th Century.  In many ways the American Pulp Heroes were jingoistic and ignored the terrible horror that had been perpetrated in this country on Blacks, Jews, Catholics, the Irish, and other immigrant people.  And none of these heroes seemed to pay attention to the terrible things Stalin was doing in the Soviet Union.  Didn't they turn a blind eye to these things?  And as such, were they that different from Sun Koh who gave his allegiance to his adopted nation? 

The wellsprings of great moral evil lie in denial and euphemism.  We should be less willing to denounce the splinter in our neighbor's eye until we take the 2 by 4 out of our own.  With a little social tinkering, there could have been genocide in the US.  American citizens of Japanese, Italian, and German extraction were sequestered in internment camps by Roosevelt. These were nothing like the concentration camps the Nazis devised, but it was a step along the way.  Caveat emptor.  Nazi Germany is a cautionary tale of where we could be heading if the Nieschtzian will to power triumphs over reason and human decency.

Art Sippo

Art Sippo explains who Sun Koh is and talks some history. We also discuss Germany's other Pulp heroes.

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Tom Roberts, artist and publisher of Black Dog Books talks about art and books.

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Bruce Rosenberger from KomicsKast and Ric reviews Doctor Mordrid from Full Moon Entertainment. Please ignore me when I call it Blue Moon instead of Full Moon.

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Ric and wife Deborah review the new Spirit movie.

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