Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld. Welcome to another episode edition of Rob Observations,

where we're smashing all the pop culture and the comic books up because that is the sum

total of who and what we are. At least that's how I, at least that, that's how I see it.

And in keeping with that particular notion of we are superheroes, today you're going to be

thrilled to know we are bursting at the seams with superheroes from both giant,

story classic legendary publishers, Marvel and DC.

Why? Why the day of all days? Well, we are going to

Compare contrast discuss the histories of the two giant

Handbooks the Marvel and DC handbooks for a lack of a better

term guidebooks, informational booklets,

Marvel and DC both entered in the mid-80s into an extensive publication of these guides to their respective universe.

Marvel's was simply referred to as the official handbook of the Marvel universe.

They started an addition of that in 1983. We'll cover the launch of that in just a moment.

We were then joined later on down the line.

1984 brought us, Who's Who, Who?

Which was the name of the, of the DC Comics version of this same compendium.

Not same.

There are actually quite a few differences, which is why we are here to discuss them.

But the theme is basically the same in that they were both, they both existed to tell you how tall, how strong, you know, what, what was the exact, you know, origin and capabilities of each of these different characters

across the entire universes of both publishers.

They are presented alphabetically, and they are both drawn by a myriad of some of the

greatest talents that were producing comics at that time.

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