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Another supernatural entity first appeared in the pages of Marvel Comics back in the 1970s alongside Ghost Rider — the Son of Satan!

Daimon Hellstrom has occasionally appeared ever since in the pages of his own comic book series and as a member of The Defenders. In our current series we are examining the stories we tell that help us deal with the unknown and this story, the Son of Satan, not only deals with devils and demons but with our on family issues as well. Even your dad wasn’t this bad. Join Karl Stern as he discusses the Son of Satan.

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This week on DragonKing Dark, host Karl is joined by Joker expert Tonya from WhenItWasCool.com to discuss the complex and widely interpreted Batman foe The Joker.

The Joker debuted in Batman issue one way back in 1940 and has been interpreted many ways, both in the comics and in movies. Cesar Romero’s slapstick Joker, Jack Nicholson’s strange comic bookie Joker, Heath Ledger’s award-winning drug-addled inspired Joker, Jared Leto’s new punk version, and Joaquin Phoenix’s brilliant exploration of mental illness. 

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We continue our look at complex movie villains with a dark or supernatural aspect to them and this week on DragonKingDark, we examine one of my favorites: Anton Chigurh from the movie No Country For Old Men.

Upon first viewing in 2007, the film became one of my favorite movies and much of that was how I related to Tommy Lee Jone’s Ed Tom character but even more to Javier Bardem’s Chigurh who is both a great straight-up bad guy, but beyond that, a psychological analog to the never-ending presence of evil in the world. 

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This week on DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern looks back at a series of popular Six Million Dollar Man TV episodes featuring a Soviet Venus probe that malfunctioned and landed in the United States and went on a terror spree. The Venus death probe was indestructible — built to withstand the harsh conditions of the planet Venus. Then we will look at the reality behind the Venus probe, including Russia’s actual successful landing of a probe on Venus, the only pictures from its nightmarish surface, and some really cool information about the hell world that is Venus. 

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On this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at an episode of the television docuseries “Paranormal Survivor.”

This episode takes a look at a haunted house (one of my favorite topics), a haunted car and other haunted objects, and much more. We venture into the realm of ghosts and demonic activity. 

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One of the most popular pop culture monsters of the 1970s was the Loch Ness Monster, a supposed displaced dinosaur or sea creature in a deep Scottish lake. Nessy even made it into a song by The Police and the movie Napoleon Dynamite.

While the “monster” might seem like a plausible thing that could exist, it turned out to be the most likely of the famous 1970s monsters not to be real.

On this episode of Dragon King Dark, I look at a 2012 documentary on how the Loch Ness Monster turned out to be nothing more than a plot to get revenge on a newspaper.

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This week on DragonKing Dark, I take a look back at a 1996 documentary from the ‘In Search of History…’ on the origins of Dracula.

We will look back at the fact and fiction of tying the real-life Vlad Tepes to the fictional vampire lord Dracula. While Bram Stoker’s Dracula gets his name and much of his home setting from Vlad the Impaler, there is some question of how much the two Draculas have in common. We take a look back at this 1996 documentary and discuss what has changed since then.

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