Jim Lee & The Star Wars Gambit!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jim Lee pursues the Star Wars license armed with generational talent but ultimately comes up short, failing to seal the deal. Would obtaining Star Wars transformed Wildstorm Studios and prevented the eventual sale to DC Comics?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Rob Lifeeld Show featuring Robeservations. |
| 0:09.1 | I bring over 40 years experience in the world of comic books and entertainment. |
| 0:15.6 | Across five decades, I offer insights and opinions on the business and the art of comic books and pop culture. |
| 0:23.6 | If it's happening in games, in streaming, in movies, in comic books, we are covering it and |
| 0:29.1 | discussing it right here. |
| 0:35.5 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to another edition of The Rob Leifold Show featuring |
| 0:42.2 | Rob Observations, wherever you are listening to us, wherever you are watching us. |
| 0:48.4 | We just want to thank you for joining us for being part of the conversation, for being part of |
| 0:52.8 | the ongoing saga that is the Rob Leifeld show |
| 0:56.8 | featuring Rob Observations. I am Rob Lightfield. I am your host. And I have been doing this, |
| 1:02.1 | you know the deal, 40 years, five decades, blah, blah, blah, been there, done that. Love it. Love |
| 1:07.6 | talking about comics. Love talking about comic creators. Love talking about the history of of all things comics and today we get to roll all of that up into i i think a really |
| 1:15.9 | tasty joint and i'm going to tell you right now i had to look at my notes and see we really we |
| 1:22.2 | seriously have not covered this we have not covered this specific aspect. I was a little shocked, |
| 1:30.7 | a little, a little dismayed. I thought, hey, there's my mic. I thought, we seriously have |
| 1:37.7 | never discussed this part of the common book history, in my mind, recent common book history as you know by the show's |
| 1:48.0 | title it is jim lee star wars it is his pursuit of the star wars license which i'm going to tell you |
| 1:56.4 | it had everybody kind of it had everybody's full attention not kind it had everybody's full |
| 2:03.8 | attention for the window that they were assembling their pitch and i am of the belief for all the |
| 2:13.7 | reasons that jimley and his wildstormstorm studios wanted to obtain what would have been |
| 2:20.5 | at the time, maybe still is the biggest license |
| 2:23.8 | that was in play, I think it would have been a |
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