Checkered Past
From February, 1966 through August, 1967, DC Comics branded all their publications with a checkerboard masthead, lovingly known as "Go-Go Checks". Because, you know, the 60s. With the help of his husband and intrepid friends, Dr. Bobb will examine each of these issues in depth and tell you what you need to know!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 305
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Holy Hot Rods! (Teen Titans #3)
You'll have a Ding-Dong-Dandy Time watching our goodnik Teen Dream Team battle the scourge of DELINQUENCY...and winning! But not without a few good-natured near-escapes from a A-Ha music video along…
01:00:18 |
Sun 23 Feb 2020
Reach For Happiness (Because Happiness Doesn't Have Arms to Reach For You)
It's Checkered Past's second anniversary! We celebrate with a Romance-themed episode, featuring episode 3 of "Reach for Happiness", dramatized by the Girls' Young Romance True Love Story Players. PLU…
00:37:09 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
Goin' to the Chap-Hell (Doom Patrol 104)
It's my and Dr. Husband's Anniversary, so we're celebrating with a look at two other star-crossed lovers, Elasti-Girl and Mento. Not a hoax, not a dream, they really ARE getting married, but not befo…
01:03:46 |
Sun 09 Feb 2020
Drag Queen, Gigolo Little Bo Peep (Action Comics #337)
Superman brings much-needed attention to the dual scourges of wealth inequality and cultural appropriation! Supergirl tests out spaceworthy feminine hygiene products, and then uses science to escape…
01:13:14 |
Mon 03 Feb 2020
I Got The Low-Down Sacre Blues (Metamorpho #6)
We didn't mean to take a 2 week break - just like Metamorpho didn't mean to (checks notes) turn the Eiffel Tower into acid and haul it away in a milk truck. But them's the breaks, kid. PLUS I reveal…
00:52:39 |
Mon 27 Jan 2020
What Happens in Prison, Stays in Prison (Adventure Comics 344-345)
Blockade Boy! Plant Lad! Fake Superboy! Just a few of the heroic names you shouldn't get too used to in the classic Legion of Super-Heroes tale "Super-Stalag of Space". It's got action, it's got dr…
01:13:18 |
Sun 05 Jan 2020
Jinkies! G-G-G-Ghosts! (Superman #186)
Superman's dead! But that won't stop him from taking some time out to cruelly play on Lois and Lana's emotions! PLUS a new radio drama by The Girls' Young Romance True Love Story Players!
00:58:59 |
Sun 29 Dec 2019
Clueless (Detective Comics #351)
Cluemaster makes his debut, Aunt Harriet crosses wits with Dick and Bruce, and Elongated Man loses his old costume. PLUS the debut of my all-new, all-different ELONGATED MAN SONG. As E-M himself wou…
01:02:59 |
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Yes, Minister (Wonder Woman 162)
Listen, I like mid-century misogyny as much as the next guy, but I can't remember when a comic has enraged me as much as this issue of Wonder Woman. Not even Ross Andru's imitative art can save it. C…
01:00:05 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Inferiority Complex (Showcase 62, 63, & 65)
The Inferior Five make their Checkered Past debut! Dr. Bobb does a deep nerd dive into the brilliance of E. Nelson Bridwell, and Dr. Husband bemoans the continued existence of Nazis. All while enjo…
01:05:01 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Brotherly Love (Superboy #129)
Great Scott! A b-boy...flying! With Super-Powers *gulp* j-just like Superboy's! Well, don't panic, folks, just a little goodf-natured teenage tomfoolery and/or aliens visiting from other worlds POS…
01:15:46 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Back to the Future! (New Frontier #1 and 2)
Something different this week - I give Dr. Husband a modern-ish comic or two to read, influenced by Silver Age themes and characters. First up - Darwyn Cooke's monumental and much-beloved New Frontie…
01:10:53 |
Mon 11 Nov 2019
Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink (Sea Devils #29)
Lost Civilizations! Giant Robots! Sea Monsters! Sounds exciting, don't it? Well get ready to lower your expectations as we take a look at Sea Devils #29!
00:57:38 |
Sun 27 Oct 2019
Kids are the WURST, m'iright? (World's Finest #157)
Superman and Batman have a couple of big problems - THEIR SONS. What do you do with a misbehaving youth when said youth has super-powers, short of locking him in a room with deadly radiation? (Or, yo…
01:07:37 |
Sun 20 Oct 2019
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Mystery in Space 107/Strange Adventures 188)
Ultra the Multi-Alien...Ultra the MULTIPLE Aliens is more like it, as Ultra finds himself scattered to the four winds! Can even pretty Bonnie Blake help him now? Find out as we discuss Mystery in S…
00:49:58 |
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Just a Little Wet Behind the Ears (Aquaman 27)
Aqualad flounders (haha see what I did there?), Mera kicks ass, and Aquaman? Well say hello to the mothra forking Justice League of AQUAMAN, BEEYOTCHES. Work friend Chuck stops by to discuss all thi…
01:03:11 |
Sun 06 Oct 2019
My, What Big Heroes You Have! (Justice League of America #44)
Half the Justice League has doubled in size and halved in power, and the other half don't understand the difference between powers and accesories! PLUS the aurora borealis has - um - become sentient,…
00:57:24 |
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Stormy Weather (Capt. Storm #13)
Laverne and Shirley, detecting chimps, good dogs, and peg-legged PT Boat skippers all come under our steely gaze as we look at Capt. Storm #13. Cap's origin story is featured, PLUS a fore-shadow of …
00:44:27 |
Sun 22 Sep 2019
Satisfaction guaranteed, or double your mummy (Jerry Lewis #94)
Brew Boss Shawn from Cinema Chop Shop joins us for a dispirited look at The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #94, where Jerry fights not only an ancient curse but his own household. How many of us haven't …
00:46:14 |
Mon 02 Sep 2019
Hawk-aa! Blackhawks Assem...oh wait (Blackhawk #220)
A short and sweet change of pace as we give you our rendition of "The Song Of The Blackhawks", plus a dramatic presentation by The Bachelor Dandies, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia's ONLY Audi…
00:27:01 |
Mon 26 Aug 2019
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