Hey, you guys, it's another episode of Rob Observations. I am Rob Leifeld bringing you my comic book

obsessions, walking you back from my childhood through my teen years to when I got hired,

to all the different ways that I have seen and experienced the comics industry as with a

fan, as a professional. We are still deep on the fan side of things, having the very best time

in a day. We are deep diving up. For people who are of my age, you are going to have a blast

as we deep dive this today. Everybody else, you're going to learn something new because today we are going headfirst,

diving straight into Power Records,

the Power Records era,

which was an era that found comic books

on 45 RPM records that would accompany a comic book and give you this little

45 that you would put on your record player and it would talk the comic through with you.

Voice actors were employed, the word balloons, the, the narrative, the captions

all read to you, and at every different page turn, it would be, ding! If you heard that,

ding, you were turning that page.

They trained you right at the outset.

They tell you.

These on the cover, they were the size slightly bigger than your average comic book.

Many of them, many of the ones that Marvel produced, were actual adaptations of existing

Marvel comics from a few years earlier.

And these were everywhere when I was a kid.

Among my favorite in my hands right now is the Incredible Hulk at Bay.

Now I'm going to backtrack it here because we got just jumped right in there.

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