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.
Feb 18
1 hr 27 min
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…
Feb 14
1 hr 35 min
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…
Feb 6
1 hr 31 min
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!
Jan 29
1 hr 27 min
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.
Jan 25
1 hr 29 min
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.
Jan 15
1 hr 28 min
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.
Jan 7
1 hr 17 min
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.
Dec 24, 2025
1 hr 25 min
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.
Dec 11, 2025
1 hr 21 min
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