Today we examine the mystery of name withheld.

The story of name withheld is perhaps the last great pre-internet mystery. What inspired this

prominent comic book creator to write such a disgruntled letter, a scathing letter on the

views of the industry, on the practices of the industry, and then this person this person this creator didn't sign the letter

and boy oh boy were fingers pointed

and were suspects named how did it all turn out we discuss it on an all new

episode

of observations hey everybody and welcome to another episode of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

Rob Observations is about the love, the joy, the appreciation, and the passion for comic

books and comic book superheroes. Maybe you love comic book superheroes. Maybe you and comic book superheroes. Maybe you love

comic book superheroes. Maybe you love comic books. Maybe you love comic book superhero movies.

And that has been your thing for the last 15, 20 years. That is what you dig the most.

Well, this is where we meet in the middle. Observations is where I bring my passion since I was seven years old, 1974, absolutely loving

comic books, can't get enough of comic books buying them off the shelves, the spinner racks,

wherever they were, and they were everywhere when I was a kid.

Couldn't escape them.

They were in your department store. They were bagged as three packs on a, on was a kid. Couldn't escape them. They were in your department store.

They were bagged as three packs on a on like a clothing hanger, a turning like hangar, which each of

the different hangers had 10 different, you know, plastic bagged packs, three comics each. There was a

Marvel pack, a DC pack, sometimes an archie pack.

Comic books wore my life. Comic books turned into my career between Deadpool and cable and

X-Force and Image Comics and Youngblood and Avengers and everything in between. I have been around

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