Episode 270 - X-Ray Goggles and Mail-Order Lizards (feat. Steve Stokes)

== Episode Description ==
In which we hear from two generations of Stokeses for the price of one, buying comics for your son is a great way to rationalize reading them yourself, you should probably be reading The Immortal Hulk, and a 30-year comics hiatus ain’t stopping Steve.
==X-Plained==
* A well-loved copy of 
* Marvel vs. DC in the Silver Age
* Requirements for an acceptable Doctor Doom
* The perils of competitive newsstand shopping
* Comics conventions: the days before Hall H
* The Long Game
* Bill Sienkiewicz: best of the best
* The Worst Comic Book Guy
* What makes the X-books special
* The experimental storytelling of New Mutants
* The Original Five
* The Long Box (and the Easter basket)
* Contagious enthusiasm
* Returning to the Marvel Universe as a lapsed reader
* Art styles over the years
* Tragic tales of mail-order chameleons
* The joys of the mainstreaming of nerddom
* Superhero movies as message pill pockets
* Fin Fang Foom
* HoX/PoX freakouts as father/son bonding
* Acid in vampires’ faces and other childhood traumas
== Listener Questions ==
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