247-Celebrating What If... with Marvel Comics Editor Tom Brevoort

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 6:01 a.m.

Marvel Comics editor Tom Brevoort (https://tombrevoort.com/) joins James for the entire hour to co-host an episode celebrating the comics of \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d and the new show premiering on Disney+ on August 11th.

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0:00 SEGMENT 1: Marvel Comics editor Tom Brevoort (https://twitter.com/TomBrevoort) celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 1st issue of \u201cFantastic Four\u201d, Tom and James talk about their first issues of \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d, and Tom talks about being an intern at Marvel when the 2nd volume of \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d came out.

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11:10 Writer/editor/artist Al Milgrom talks about \u201cWhat If\u2026 Elektra Had Lived\u201d, \u201cWhat If\u2026 the Marvel Bullpen Became the Fantastic Four\u201d, and what power he would like to have.

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14:02 Tom Breevort talks about why the body count was always so high in \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d stories.

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17:20 SEGMENT 2: Tom Brevoort talks about his top 3 \u201cWhat If..\u201d stories.

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25:30 A caller talks about \u201cWhat If...Captain America Fought in the Civil War\u201d.

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28:25 James\u2019 favorite story is \u201cWhat If\u2026 Professor X Had Become The Juggernaut\u201d

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30:15 Artist Keith Williams (https://www.instagram.com/keithwilliamscomicbookart/) talks about his favorite stories that he worked on including \u201cWhat If.. the Alien Costume Had Possessed Spider-Man\u201d.

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31:58 Dave from Cinephiles Assemble calls in. Check out his YouTube channel for his discussion with James about \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d (https://youtu.be/zieYh8gTQIg).

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34:24 Tom Brevoort talks about a never used \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d story about The Avengers fighting Galactus.

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37:06 SEGMENT 3: The Disney+ series will feature \u201cWhat If\u2026 T\u2019challa Became Star Lord\u201d featuring Chadwick Boseman\u2019s final performance as Black Panther.

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41:12 Writer D.G. Chichester (https://twitter.com/dgchichester) talks about \u201cWhat If\u2026 The Kingpin Owned Daredevil\u201d and one story that never saw the light of day.

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44:03 Writer Frank Tieri (https://twitter.com/FrankTieri) talks about \u201cWhat If\u2026 Spider-Man House of M\u201d.

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45:42 Tom Brevoort talks about how \u201cWhat If\u2026\u201d stories are written, whether there will be new issues, and reprinting old issues.

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48:29 Artist Lee Weeks (https://twitter.com/Inkdropinc) talks about \u201cWhat If\u2026 Spider-Man Had Rescued Gwen Stacy\u201d

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