Hey everybody, this is Rob Blyfeld, and this is Rob Observations, where we mash up

comic books, pop culture, all of it into one tasty enchilada for all of us to share. Today,

we are going to get to a crazy story in the history of comic books that details a very interesting

parallel to stuff that is always kind of being discussed in the comic book business. It's

never kind of gone away, but it actually occurred. It happened. A very disastrous event happened

in 1978 when I was 11 years old and and everyone who is really

in the business now editors uh writers of that age they've all we we all have spoken of it

discussed it on record in in different magazines interviews but it is is the infamous DC Comics implosion. The DC Comics

implosion. It was a giant event that was called the DC Comics Explosion. It was meant to be

an explosion. It was advertised as an explosion. And an entire new line of books,

expanded titles, new characters, the DC Comics explosion. And yet, that's not how it turned out.

Before it really ever got started, the plug was pulled. Very few of these books actually launched

and the plan was killed and the line was wiped out and it was called the DC implosion

from that point evermore. And it affected the way that you are receiving your comic books today.

Now you're like, how is something in 1978 affecting what's going on with me today?

Well, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to share that with you today,

but we're going to start with the right before we get to the meat of this incredibly crazy story.

I am going to share with you in the hot topic slot. Some cool stuff in regards to

what I was enjoying over this last weekend in a return to a very tiny comic book show venue,

but one that blew up nonetheless. Twice a year here in Southern California,

a group of the biggest original art dealers gather and they throw an original art show up in Los Angeles,

not too far from Los Angeles International Airport.

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