Today's episode is an episode originally posted behind a paywall in March of this last year.

I have a Patreon, and behind that Patreon are some

Robeservations episodes that are strictly for the subscribers and we've given about a five,

six month window lead time as to when you can hear those specific episodes. Today's

episode acts as a bonus for all of you regular observation listeners.

This is a great moment in time, a moment in history

where Jack the King Kirby had really kind of decided to speak his mind.

And in doing so, enraged the current at the time, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics.

It set up kind of a final conflict between the two and Jack would end up going his own way.

I certainly hope that you enjoy today's bonus episode of When Jack Talked Back, the King's

Speech. It's a good one. Enjoy. Welcome everybody to another edition of Rob Observations.

I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

We here at Rob Observations are obsessed with comic books and with superheroes and all

of the expanded versions of comic books and superheroes that we have been experiencing,

especially over the last two decades.

For me, it's been 50 years, 5-0 years since I have been reading, consuming,

just loving comic books in a way that is second only to the love that I feel for my family.

I am so passionate about the comic book art form, the storytelling, the panels, the page

turns, the wildly stylistic interpretations that different artists give different superheroes.

A Jack Kirby Captain America is going to look different than a Frank Miller Captain America

is going to look different than a John Byrne Captain America and is going to look different than a Todd

McFarland Captain America.

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