Weekly Update 12/16/19

Instead of talking about the absolute wild and crazy (and maybe kinda fun!) mess that is today's Variant Cover, I just want to reflect real quick on the past year.

We released Episode One (about the Golden Age of Marvel) on January 1st of last year, and while I think Dave and I have made some huge strides in confidence and quality, I'm still very proud of those first few episodes. While I maybe could have imagined how sizable the listener base would get over the year, I couldn't have predicted how this comics podcast could turn into its own little community, full of inside jokes, heroes and villains, unique personalities from all over the world, and even a couple new religions. And we've grown a listener base large enough it's become worth starting a whole second show! That's so crazy to me. 

I can't thank our listeners and supporters enough. Here's to 1000 more years of My Marvelous Year (after which we'll finally start My DC Year)!!!

If you're a $5+ Patron, make sure to check out My Ultimate Year: Episode One, out now! Each new episode will be released on the first of the month!

This week's episode is Marvel Year Seventeen: 1978 Variant Cover! Next week's episode will be a year end wrap-up, Christmas-y, best of free for all, partially to give us a break, and partially to let people catch up with their reading over the holidays.

1979 PART 1:
Thor #283 to 286
Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man #27 to #28
Daredevil #160, #161
Amazing Spider-Man #194 to #197
Uncanny X-Men #117, #123 to #128

1979 PART 2 :
Marvel Two-In-One #53 to #58
Marvel Premiere #47, 48 / 51-53
Iron Man #125 to #128
Avengers #181, #185 to #187
Fantastic Four #210 to #213

My Ultimate Year Episode One:
Ultimate Spider-Man #1-7
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #1-8
Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra #1-4

My Ultimate Year Episode Two:
Ultimate Elektra #1-5
Ultimate Iron Man #1-5
Ultimate Iron Man II #1-5
Ultimate X-Men #1-6 + 1/2

EXTRA ISSUES 1977 (always changing, check the spreadsheet for current):
Captain America #217 Intro of Quasar!
Marvel Team-Up #65 First American appearance of Captain Britain
X-Men #109 Awesome issue of X-Men and intro of James Hudson
Marvel Team-Up #68 Spidey & Man-Thing Vs. D'Spayre
Power Man and Iron Fist #50 The beginning of the team!
The Incredible Hulk #228 Moonstone 2!
Iron Man #116, #117 Michelinie and Romita Jr start taking Iron Man to new heights

UPCOMING PODCAST SCHEDULE:
December 23: Special Holiday Episode!
December 30: Marvel Year Eighteen: 1979 Pt. 1
January 1: My Ultimate Year: Episode Two
January 6: Marvel Year Eighteen: 1979 Pt. 2
January 13: Marvel Year Eighteen: 1979 Variant Cover
January 20: Marvel Year Nineteen  1980 Pt. 1

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