Marvel Monsters!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A look back at how Marvel Comics jumped headfirst into creating an expansive Monster-Verse that dominated their line up for many years. Rob examines the circumstances and conditions that created this opportunity to expand the Marvel Universe.

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0:00.0	Have we got a show for you today?
0:13.4	Marvel Monsters, the Marvel Monster era dominated the 1970s.
0:19.9	They just exploded out of the gate with a new lease on life, with
0:23.6	books about vampires and werewolves and Frankenstein's monster and mummies. They were
0:29.1	at the forefront of this new movement. Why did it happen when it happened? How did those books
0:34.6	become so successful? Because they just absolutely blew off the charts and filled the racks.
0:41.1	And it is such an important part of my childhood.
0:43.3	And as everyone jumps now into the Halloween season in the first week of September,
0:48.4	we do the same.
0:50.1	We are all about the age of Marvel Monst on today's all new Rob Observations.
0:59.5	Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld. You are listening to another episode of Rob Observations.
1:06.0	Robeservations, the show where we smash up all the pop culture with all the comic books,
1:10.7	because that's all there is now.
1:11.8	That's all there is.
1:13.2	I am bombarded.
1:14.2	There's rings of power.
1:15.4	There's House of Dragon.
1:17.0	There's The Boys.
1:18.4	There's Thor Love and Thunder on Disney Plus.
1:21.1	There's weekly episodes of Shehulk.
1:23.2	There's the making of Obi-Wan series, which follows the Obi-Wan series that just ended.
1:29.2	There's a trailer for Andor.
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