229 Douglas Wolk on All of the Marvels

The Weird History Podcast by Joe Streckert

Oct 12, 202159:03Society & Culture

The Marvel Universe is massive. Marvel comics go back well over half a century, and span thousands upon thousands of pages. Reading all of them would be a Herculean undertaking. And one man, Douglas Wolk, did exactly tha...

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