Official copies of the show were also released on vinyl, but they’re harder to track down now, with copies on Amazon and eBay being offered for $150-$200 USD. The Adventures of The Fantastic Four is perhaps the most well-known of all of Marvel’s older audio dramas and radio plays, and all thirteen episodes of the show are available to listen to online with not too much searching required. Best known now for featuring the voices of Stan Lee as the Narrator and Bill Murray (yes, that Bill Murray!) as The Human Torch, the Fantastic Four’s radio debut featured the team as they faced off against classic Fantastic Four enemies like Doctor Doom and Super-Skrull. The Fantastic Four radio show was a thirteen episode radio show that aired in 1975. Just don’t blame me if you end up in the Astral Plane for your Internet piracy crimes! The Adventures of the Fantastic Four – marvel Radio Show (1975) Whilst the radio show has never officially been released by Marvel (and isn’t even widely known among fans of the Sorcerer Supreme, considering it was only ever broadcast on a single radio station during its run), savvy Marvel fans can find audio copies of the show on YouTube and Marvel forums if they want to go digging for them.
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Unlike a lot of later radio series attempting to recapture the glories of old-time radio, these are marvelously done, making full use of sound effects, accents, music good radio acting and, of course, those familiar, now-classic Ditko plots! The way the story goes is that some folks at a New York radio station decided to do up these shows due to the growing popularity of Marvel Comics…they reportedly contacted Stan Lee about it and Stan showed up at the station to give his seal of approval…so they did a total of 17 episodes. This blogpost entry provides the following information about the radio show: It’s a show that was pretty faithful to the comics, but that also injected new life into a character that had only previously existed within the pages of Marvel comic books. The rest of the episodes focus on classic Strange tales and are all fully fleshed out with music, SFX and a complete cast of voice actors.
It’s a fun series that begins by matching Steve Ditko’s origin for the Sorcerer we listen to The Ancient One (who has a somewhat questionable accent) explain how Stephen Strange lost the use of his hands during a car crash, and how he can never perform neurosurgery again. But The Long Night isn’t the first time that Marvel have delved into the world of audio dramas, they’ve actually been releasing them for almost as long as they’ve been releasing comics.Ī lot of these audio dramas are hard to track down, with most never having been released on any physical or digital formats, but luckily the popularity of Marvel Comics have kept traces of these audio tales alive and well on the Internet for me to hunt down and pass onto you: Doctor Strange Radio Series (1967-1970)īefore the silver-screen debut of Benedict Cumberbatch as the Master of the Mystic Arts, Marvel decided to bring Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange into the world of audio dramas with a seventeen-episode radio show which ran from 1967 to 1970 on a single New York radio station. Marvel’s latest venture into the world of podcasts, “Wolverine: The Long Night”, recently began releasing on podcast streaming service Stitcher Premium, with comics fans excited to see what the future will hold for audio releases based around Marvel Comics characters and locations.
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