Today, imagine if you were writing two of Marvel's top superhero titles.

And one day you decided, hey, you know what I want to do?

I want to cross these titles over,

and better yet, I want these two teams to fight. I want these two giant teams of characters

to fight each other, and I'm going to go back and forth all summer long. That's the Avengers

Defenders War. It lasted through the summer of 1973 by one visionary writer who just

decided, hey, this is what I want to do, and I'm going to do it. There was no corporate

retreat, no executive planning session, just one guy, one talent, who decided, I'm going to

give the fans what they want. Thor's going to fight Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man,

they're going to fight Dr. Strange, the Silver Surfer.

It is Game On, the most organic company crossover that you've ever imagined takes place,

and we walk you through it.

Avengers Defenders War on an all new Robeservations.

Hey everybody and welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

Rob Leifeld has been making comic books for just shy of 40 years.

Four decades.

My feet have been stepping in the 80s, the 90s, the 2000s, the 2010s, and now the 2020s.

So I actually cross five decades, but it's really 10, 10, 10, and 9 at this point, right, kissing on that 40th year.

I have watched comic books grow into a much more expansive business.

I watched comic books go from the spinner racks at the grocery store, at the drugstore,

which is where I found them when I was a kid,

and I saw and watched comic books jump into specialty shops. And maybe you've been to a great

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