1978! Time To Boogie Down!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Break out the Disco Ball and the bell bottoms as we celebrate all the Pop that was formed in 1978! The Greatest Comic Book of all time was published! What was it? The X-Men went international, The Avengers Assembled against their mightiest foe! At the movies, Superman made you believe a man could fly & Grease was the word! An incredible close out to our decade series!

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0:00.0	Hey there, hi there, ho there. Today, we are going all the way back to 1978. In the last of our decade series,
0:21.3	we are letting the
0:22.6	disco ball roll.
0:24.6	We have got our
0:25.4	bell bottoms.
0:26.4	We are listening to
0:27.3	dance music.
0:28.3	It's the Bee Gees.
0:29.5	They punched it all the way
0:30.7	through straight from their
0:31.6	huge success from
0:33.3	Saturday Night Fever,
0:34.9	clearing the way for
0:35.9	all that would come
0:36.7	musically in 1978 and beyond.
0:40.0	But wait, it's not just music, it's comic books, it's movies.
0:42.9	Superman, the movie, dun-da-da-da-da-da.
0:46.7	Come on, Christopher Reeve, Dick Donner, Gene Hackman, in one of the greatest movies of all time.
0:51.3	It flies through 1978 and leaves awake of massive achievement
0:57.9	and influence behind it. The very best Marvel comics of 1978 are some of the best
1:05.5	Marvel comics of any era. The X-Men, the X-Men go international, the Avengers Battle Corvac, Dr. Doom has a son,
1:14.2	the son of Doom, and the very best, most accomplished creative team in the history of Iron Man
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