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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 Fantastic Four #1
• 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

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