Today we are tackling the rest of 2012. Yes, we are still in our time machine one decade back 10 years ago. What was going on in 2012?

That was exciting everybody. It was the Hunger Games. It was Katness. It was before Watchmen. Yes, DC Comics broke with a longstanding tradition and went full steam ahead examining a series of prequels that

occurred before their award-winning saga.

And without the acclaimed author, how did that go?

Marvel had an experimental approach to Spider-Man as he hit issue number 700.

That and so much more.

2012 was just full of benchmark.

After benchmark, it was a big year.

We're going all in on today's Robeservations.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob

Lefeld. I have been doing this comic book thing for 36, almost 37 years, publishing, writing,

creating, producing, drawing, all of it, marketing.

I've been in on every aspect of the comic book world,

the comic book community, and I have watched it since I was a wee young lad of seven years old blowup,

pulling those comics off the spinner racks,

back when there were actual squeaky spinner racks.

Yes, they squeaked when you,

it was part of the, the, the, the, the anticipation of going into the liquor store or going into the 7-Eleven that that spinner rack was going to squeak and go,

I have several spinner racks myself. I am obsessed with a really good quality vintage. It's got to be vintage. I have three vintage spinnerax. One in my, in my office that I proudly display comic books from my youth, the 70s and 80s particular. If you guys have ever listened to any of these episodes of our observations

before, you know that I take it upon myself to walk you through the journey that I went through

from 1974 all the way up to present day, where we examine how the comic book characters of my

youth in the early inception of the Marvel universe because you know you look

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