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Episode 99 - Murdock and Marvel: 2025 In a year so recent that we don’t even have Eisners for it yet, comics continued to thrive and movie ticket sales continued to dive. It was a great time to be a comic retailer, but a very bad year if you happen to be a political cartoonist. Lets talk about the year that was 2025. Preshow New era of Daredevil comic begins in March: https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/daredevil-stephanie-phillips-lee-garbett-new-era-true-believer-blind-bags-march-2026 The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics T...

Episode 98 - Murdock and Marvel: 2024 Can comics survive without big-screen movies to prop them up? Yes, it appears they can. It was another great year for comics in stores, even as the pop-culture phenomenon of the MCU seems to have largely died. The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v8 #3-14, Daredevil: Black Armor #1-4, Daredevil: Gang War #1-4...

Episode 97 - Murdock and Marvel: 2023 The pandemic book that brought comics to their highest sales figures ever finally ended, and sales dropped about 7% from 2022’s all-time high. Even so, both sales and quality made this another fantastic year for American comics. The movies…well that is something else… Preshow Talk Alec Seguera’s Enemy of My Enemy: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781368095365 Comic Book Yeti: https://www.comicbookyeti.com/ The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable...

Episode 96 - Murdock and Marvel: 2022 It was a good year for comics, with things being stable, but still pointing up. In the movie world, though, there were some dangerous signs of problems to come… The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v6 #36, Daredevil v7 #1-4, Devil’s Reign #1-6, Devil’s Reign Omega #1, Daredevil Epic Collection #12, Amazing S...

Episode 95 - Murdock and Marvel: 2021 As the Covid-19 pandemic entered its second year comics continued to charge forward, with the unchallenged biggest year in the history of the medium (so far!) in 2021. Great books and a public desperate to be entertained combined to make this a great year to be a comic retailer…or a comic fan! The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in...

Episode 94 - Murdock and Marvel: 2020 In case you don’t remember, 2020 pretty much sucked. Comics did not escape the vortex of Covid-19 and its associated disruptions and dangers, but the industry actually weathered the first year of the pandemic better than one might expect. The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v6 #13-23, Daredevil Annual #1, Jessica Jones: Blind...

Episode 93 - Murdock and Marvel: 2019 In 2019 Marvel Studios completed the most ambitious movie cycle in history with its 2 billion dollar Avengers: Endgame masterpiece, even as comic stores wondered about the future and politics made deeper and deeper inroads into comics and comics fandom. The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v5 #611-612, Man Without Fear #1-5, Daredevil v...

Episode 92 - Murdock and Marvel: 2018 It was a great year for comics, everywhere except the shops, and movies, graphic novels and TV continued to do well. The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v5 #595-610, Daredevil Annual #1, She-Hulk #159, Falcon #6, All-New Wolverine #33, Avengers #687-689, Hunt for Wolverine #1, Hunt for Wolverine: Weapon Lost #1-4, Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends #1...

Episode 91 - Murdock and Marvel: 2017 It was a big year for comics in theaters, but local comic shops did not do nearly as well, with sales diving substantially from 2016. The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Notable Comics Top Comic News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards Dan's Favorite The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v5 #13-28, Power Man and Iron Fist #10, Avengers #3.1, Kingpin #2-3, Elektra #3, Doctor Strange #21-24, FCBD All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #1, Defenders...

Episode 90 - Murdock and Marvel: 2016 TBD The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media Comic Sales Top Comics News Notable Passings Marvel Eisner Awards The Year in Daredevil Appearances: Daredevil v5 #1-12, Daredevil/Punisher: Seventh Circle #1-3, True Believers: Daredevil – Practice to Deceive #1, Daredevil Annual #1, Secret Wars Too #1, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #5, Mockingbird #5, Accused #1, Captain America: Steve Rogers #5, Civil War II #5 Writer: Charles Soule (#1-12) Pencils: Ron Garney (#1-3, #5, #10-12), Garney and Goran Sudzuk...

Episode 89 - Murdock and Marvel: 2015 Part 2 2015 was a turning point for the American comic industry in a number of ways, and seems to be a satisfying place to wrap up our look at over 50 years of American comic books. This year is in many ways a fulcrum that links the insular comics world that I grew up in with the fast-moving media-entwined and politically-charged environment of recent times. This is part 2 of the podcast. that will feature the year in Daredevil, the Spotlight story and the Takeaway for 2015. The Year in Daredevil App...

Episode 88 - Murdock and Marvel: 2015 Part 1 2015 was a turning point for the American comic industry in a number of ways, and seems to be a satisfying place to wrap up our look at over 50 years of American comic books. This year is in many ways a fulcrum that links the insular comics world that I grew up in with the fast-moving media-entwined and politically-charged environment of recent times. The Year in Comics Comics in Other Media DC Comics Other Publishers Sales & Industry Information Beginnings & Endings Eis...