Today in the immortal words of Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

My dad's got an awesome set of tools. I think I can fix it. Well, I'm not sure

that we can fix it, but we have definitely picked up Marvel off the side of the road.

We have put Marvel up on the truck and we have, we are taking them into the shop for repairs.

We've got them up on the lift.

We're looking under the hood, and we're running the diagnostics,

and we're seeing what we can do to fix Marvel Comics on an all- new episode of Robeservations.

Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. I am so

happy that you have joined us. I have been making my bones in the comic book business for over

40 years. I started as an obsessed fan, seven years old, 1974, grabbing these comic books off

the spinner racks at the grocery mart, at the drugstore. Comic books were everywhere when I was a

kid. I was exposed to them at every stop with my mom or

my dad. And so I accumulated them 25 cents, 20 cents at the time when I started. And I built up this

collection of heroes and characters that I just could not get enough of. And the only way for me

to truly interact with them was through the pages of the comic books.

The cartoons that were on like Super Friends and maybe the occasional Batman or Superman

cartoon that was in reruns, they were okay, but they didn't have the sense of the detail

in the art or the complex storylines.

Today I rewatch a lot of those cartoons and they are so very childish.

You know, even as a kid, super friends, I was like, why isn't anybody hitting anybody?

In the comic books that I engaged in, Batman and Superman would pummel the bad guys and get pummeled in return.

They would take blows,

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