Hey, you guys, this is Rob Leifeld, and we are about to embark on another episode of Rob

Observations.

Robeservations is where I share my passion of comic books, all things comic books.

Sometimes they pertained pop culture.

They always pertain to pop culture because the world has become one giant comic book

playground. I began comic books, the obsession with comic books in the very early 1970, 74, 75.

It became an obsession. I have consumed them ever since. It has been fun seeing how they

change the world. The great thing about

comic books changing the world and being a part of it for so long is I have watched the architects

behind the scenes shape the comic books and the events and the characters and the creators

that have put these all together. And when I speak of architects,

I am speaking of the editors and chiefs behind the scenes who have really defined every era of comic

books, starting with the great Stan Lee. So today, we are discussing editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief position,

editors-in-chief, the EIC, the top brass over many generations, mostly Marvel,

some at DC I'm going to cover, but you will come away knowing 100% where I stand as

who I believe the greatest editor-in-chief of my generation, of my lifetime, is,

of course, Stan Lee is never going to be outdone, but he had left the position much sooner

than my career, my actual fan engagement with comics arrived.

He had seated the top editor-in-chief position to a gentleman named Roy Thomas, who did a great

job guiding what would be the latter half of the Silver Age of Comics, which would be the late

60s throughout the very early 70s. I didn't come along, like I said, until

75, 74 around that time, and it was switching off. Roy Thomas was

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