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🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 104 minutes
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The comic that saved Marvel! The original Marvel comic book adaptation of Star Wars gets the full Robtopsy examination! The historical relevance of the comic book Stan Lee didn’t want to publish is revealed! How taking a chance on an unknown “Space Opera” turned the fortunes of a publishing company on the brink! The scenes that didn’t make the film, the legendary creators and much, much more!
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0:00.0 | Today we are putting Star Wars on the Rob Topsy table. |
0:16.4 | Not Star Wars the movie, not the blockbuster film, the comic book, the comic that literally |
0:22.6 | saved Marvel Comics. |
0:25.2 | Nobody knew what they had, not the publisher, not the fans. |
0:29.7 | No one had heard of Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Darth Vader. |
0:34.8 | This was a brand new experience, a huge risk, find out all about the comic |
0:40.1 | Stanley absolutely did not want to publish under any circumstances whatsoever. There is tons of |
0:46.9 | historical relevance and creative pedigrees to be learned on an all-new Robeservations. |
0:56.5 | Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob's observations and another special edition |
1:03.1 | of the Robtopsie. |
1:05.2 | What we do during the Robtopsie is we take a particular body of work, a body of art, |
1:10.6 | and we isolate it and |
1:12.9 | examine all of its special properties, all of the reasons that it affected history. It's, |
1:20.0 | its historical relevance. The creators, the creative, uh, influence. The brush with greatness |
1:28.8 | is where we cover |
1:29.6 | how great |
1:30.3 | the embellishing and the inking. |
1:32.7 | They don't get enough |
1:33.6 | praise, |
1:34.9 | inkers, |
1:35.4 | embellishers, |
1:35.9 | the work that they do |
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