Podcasts by How Marvelous

What If Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, Had Remained Loyal to Fu Manchu? from 2021-08-12T17:07:31

What if Marvel condensed a couple of years worth of character development into a single issue? Find out here, once we’re done talking about Teen Titans, Ba...

What If Someone Else Had Become Nova? from 2021-08-06T13:15:13

A new episode! We talk this time about an anthology issue about several other people being given the power of Nova! One of them is Peter Parker (because Sp...

What If Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos Had Fought World War II in Outer Space? from 2021-07-29T14:57:32

This episode we tackle the weakest issue of the first volume thus far, as Sgt. Fury’s Howling Commandos fight World War II in space. Characters become comp...

What If... Conan the Barbarian Walked the Earth Today? from 2021-04-15T14:54:16

What if Conan were transported to the “present” day? Sex, obviously. Of course there’s sex. It’s Conan.

But, l...

What If... Rick Jones Had Become the Hulk? from 2020-09-10T15:54:51

What if Rick Jones had become the Hulk, you ask? Well, it would have been basically the same Hulk, but with that annoying beatnik slang Rick Jones used to use. That’s basically it.

What If... the Fantastic Four Were the Original Marvel Bullpen? from 2020-08-27T15:13:12

Stan “The Man” Lee as Mr. Fantastic!
Jack “The King” Kirby as The Thing!
Flo “The Woman” Steinberg as The Invisible Woman!
Sol “The Who?” Brodsky as The Human Torch!

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What If... Jane Foster Had Found the Hammer of Thor? from 2020-08-20T18:15:15

The gang delve into a bizarro universe where Jane Foster is the one wielding the power of Thor.

What If... the Avengers Had Been Formed During the 1950's? from 2020-06-18T14:08:15

Marvel Boy! Liberace! Venus! Red Scare! 3-D Man! The Beaver! Asbestos! Gorilla Man! White Flight! The Whirling Dervish! Human Robot! The Raceist!

When these titans join ...

What If... The World Knew Daredevil was Blind? from 2020-06-04T16:41:38

What would happen if the world knew that Daredevil was BLIND?!

Nothing, really. The Owl does basically the same thing as in normal continuity, and there’s a brief epilogu...

What If... Someone Else Had Become the Amazing Spider-Man? from 2020-05-21T13:48:07

Let joy be unrestrained as How Marvelous brings you episode 7, in which we find out that everyone who might have become Spider-Man/Woman would experience only failure and death, and tha...

What If... The Fantastic Four Had Different Powers? from 2020-05-14T20:19:20

After months of silence, we explode back into life with a super-exciting episode in which the world you know is… essentially the same.

What If... Captain America and Bucky Had Both Survived World War II? from 2020-02-27T22:30:15

Ring the bell and let joy be unrestrained! We get to the first proper issue of What If…?, where we get an overall idea of the knock-on effects of the changes!

So, yeah, B...

What If... The Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War II? from 2020-02-20T17:22:05

The answer?

A bunch of pointless bullsh*t, including the near replacement of JFK by a robot duplicate, and the death of Captain America.

What If... The Avengers Had Never Been? from 2020-02-13T20:40:55

Did you ever wonder what would have happened if the Avengers just didn’t work out?

Well, we wouldn’t have gotten the dire 90’s Avengers storyline “The Crossing”. It’s… it...

What If...? The Hulk Had Always Had Bruce Banner's Brain from 2020-02-07T16:00:40

This week we discuss the bananas visual of X-Man fighting Galactus. In a speedo.

What If...? Spider-Man Joined The Fantastic Four from 2019-11-22T19:27:51

We take a look at the terrible villains, terrible writing, and terrible sexual politics of What If…? Spider-Man Joined The Fantastic Four!