Marvel Studios: The Rise Of The D-List!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Prior to Disney purchasing Marvel and the MCU Films going on their extended run of unprecedented box office success, the market was uncertain of their prospects. Back in 2004, the business world preached caution, advising that all Marvel had left was “inferior characters” going so far as to hedge against them as they prepared to finance their own slate of films. Rob has done the research and takes you all the way back, examining the articles & opinions from Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and others as they doubled down with doubt as to Marvel’s future. Little did they know what was to come!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld. Welcome to another episode of Rob Zurbitions.
0:09.4	Robeservations is where we get all the comic book talk, the comic movie talk, the comic
0:14.4	streaming talk, the comic action figures. I'm all about comic books. I think we've done 112,
0:19.9	113. I don't know. Last time I looked,
0:22.8	that's the numbers that jumped out on me. And the great thing is that they start at the beginning.
0:29.5	My very first episode outlines the very first comic book that rocked my world that I pulled off an actual
0:36.6	spinner rack that I didn't trade my barber for because that'sed my world that I pulled off an actual spinner rack that I didn't
0:38.0	um trade my barber for because that's actually my very first Marvel comics is fantastic 4-147
0:44.2	I'm not sure I've covered that but that was through a trade with Fred the barber I'm sure I've
0:48.9	covered it but eventually I started you know buying comics off the spinner racks and have been addicted ever since.
0:56.3	I have a 34 year going on 35 in just a few months in comic books.
1:02.4	And comic books have been so very good to me and my family.
1:05.6	And it has been an, it's the passion of my life outside of my family.
1:10.4	All comic books stuff is my passion.
1:13.1	It ignited me.
1:13.9	It lit me up.
1:15.3	They were my comfort food when things were dark for me, as I've covered in a period where my,
1:20.3	my own father was in a coma for nine months.
1:23.0	I'm not going to Debbie Downer this any further than just saying that during that time I realized that
1:28.6	that's probably one of the bond the love of comics because they took me away they
1:32.8	they spirited me away my imagination was carried by all of those crazy amazing
1:38.6	characters mostly published at the time by Marvel in DC Comics later I would
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