NARRATOR: Get ready for New York Comic
Con with the three most epic New York stories
to hit the Marvel Universe.
Toot toot.
I'm the Daily Bugle.
It's Lorraine.
And I'm the Bronx's hero for hire, I'm Langston.
I'm a delicious dirty water dog, Ryan.
This is Earth's mightiest show.
And we are geared up for New York Comic Con.
That's right, now listen if you
cannot be here in person, first of all,
we're going to miss you. But, hey.
Don't fret.
We're going to be bringing it all to you
on Marvel Live all weekend long on Marvel.com.
Yeah.
And to get you ready to gird your minds,
today we're bringing you the most epic New
York stories in Marvel history.
And also, our personal opinions.
Yes.
The internet needs more of our personal opinions.
So we chose our top three NYC Marvel comics
for our NYC reading lists.
One of which we will dive in to today.
What did you all pick?
So my top three included "Secret Invasion," the Marvel's
"Epilogue," but I'm going to go with my top pick
from the "Fantastic Four."
Oh.
My top three included Frank Miller's "Daredevil,"
a classic, the death of ultimate comic Spider-man--
one of my favorites-- but my top pick is one of the most
epic NYC fights ever.
N spoilers.
OK.
You know my top three, they include the "Black Panther:
The Man Without Fear," really fun
book, "Spidey vs. Juggernaut."
But my top pick today, it's all about that damage control.
Should we get into it? - Ooh, yeah.
Let's do it.
OK.
Like I said my pick is going to be-- here we go--
"Damage Control" issue number one from 1989
by Dwayne McDuffie, with art by Ernie Colon, Bob
Wiacek, and John Wellington.
If you don't know, Damage Control
is the organization that cleans up
after superhero battles from debris
to lost artifacts to resources.
They are so consensually New York because they remind me
of all of the civil servants, like the police officers,
and EMTs, and firemen, construction
workers that you see all the time in New York City.
You know transit workers-- all that stuff.
So they're keeping NYC running smoothly--
as smoothly as it can when there's superhero
fights every other--
roughly, I guess-- 15 minutes.
So I love it.
It always makes you think of New York.
They're the real heroes of New York.
And I think it's crazy that it took what 25, 30 years for us
to start rebuilding the city after putting
a bunch of superheroes in it? - Yeah.
Yeah.
I also love just being a New Yorker
and thinking about this from a logistics perspective.
Like the bureaucracy that goes into having a group that
has to clean up giant, like, beings
that have passed out in the middle of midtown.
And like the nonsense that that is, it's so funny.
And that book is hilarious.
It's really, really great.
Double points because Damage Control's headquarters
in the Flat Iron Building.
And shout out to Thor just booking it from the scene.
RYAN PENAGOS: Oh, look.
I got to go.
LANGSTON BELTON: Verily.
That's my time.
My goat is here.
My goat is three minutes away.
All right, Lorraine.
What do you got?
My pick is "The Amazing Spider-man"
number 270 by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, and Bob McCleod.
There is no better way to see Manhattan than just
fighting with someone terrible.
This is my favorite Spider-man fight of all time
because he takes on Fire Lord and it takes you on this epic
tour of New York City, from the bottom of Manhattan
all the way up to Grand Central Station, up to the Bronx
and an elevated train.
They ruin everything and it ends with the Avengers.
Plus you get to see the Daily Bugle and Avengers' mansion.
It's like a perfect overview of New
York from the Marvel Universe.
One of my favorite images of the black suit Spider-man
beating all the bricks off of--
LORRAINE CINK: I know.
It's such a spoiler.
This is the end of the issue.
All right.
I got to go and tell you all about "Fantastic Four"
number 15.
This one is by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby,
Dick Ayers, and Art Simek.
This is really important because Fantastic
Four is Marvel's first family.
New York is where we started.
Think about this-- so the bullpen at Marvel back
in the '60s was Stan Lee, Jack Kirby,
Steve Ditko, and the crew.
And so Jack Kirby grew up on Delancey Street,
the Thing grew up on Yancy Street.
Ahh. See what they did there.
It's all connected.
That's right.
So in this issue, we get the first appearance
of the Yancy Street Gang--
a group of hooligans, some rough--
Rapscallions.
Scallywags.
All of those things.
- Nogoodniks. - Yes.
That's my favorite.
They are 100% nogoodniks.
And they have been like messing with the Thing
since he was a kid.
And that's really important because Ben Grimm wouldn't
be who he was without the Yancy Street Gang pushing him
and what his history was with him.
But then he wouldn't become the Thing if he wasn't who he was.
He wouldn't become part of the Fantastic Four.
Fantastic Four wouldn't be part of the Marvel universe.
Like everything comes down to the Yancy Street Gang, y'all.
Yeah.
You know it's really funny because if you think about it,
Sue Storm kind of manipulates the thing
where she's like, "Oh, what?
Are you too chicken to go to space?"
He's like, "Nobody calls me yellow.
We're going to space."
But, like, a lot of that came from fighting bullies.
RYAN PENAGOS: Yeah.
Anyway, we will post all nine of our top picks
in a full New York City themed reading list on Marvel.com
and in the description so you can read them yourself.
Yes.
And they are available to read right now on Marvel Unlimited--
the subscription service that gives you access
to over 25,000 comics, and they're
adding new ones all the time.
Right now it's filled to bursting with comics.
It's awesome.
Thick with comics.
Oh, boy.
All right.
We'll see you guys at Marvel Live from New York Comic Con
October 3 through the 6th on Marvel.com.
And hey.
Why don't you guys tell us your favorite thing
about Marvel's New York City and hashtag Earth's mightiest show?
- We'll see you next time. - I'm Ryan.
- I'm Lorraine - And I'm Langston.
And this is Marvel.
Your universe.