And here we go today.

We are talking about the chart toppers, the top of the charts.

The late 80s, the early 90s, the characters, the publishers, the titles who were topping

the charts.

Some surprises, some breakouts, some characters that had heat, and then they just dissipate.

Straight from retailers of the age. They wrote dozens and dozens of

retail reports telling you what was selling. What was what was the phenomenon? You're going to hear

phenomenons. Batmania. Oh, we are deep into bat mania. Summer 1989, summer 1990. How close does reflect to what's topping the charts today?

We're going to look at all of it. We're going to examine it on an all new episode of Robeservations.

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

I have been doing these comic books for nearly four decades, 37 years strong.

And this podcast celebrates all things comic books, all things superheroes,

no matter whether they're video games, movies, streaming, or the very

best version of them, the original version of them, the actual comic books printed on paper

between two staples, or occasionally, if you buy it in a trade paperback, it's glued,

or stitched if it's a hardcover, whatever.

We love comic books at Rob's Reformation observation we love talking about how they have become sewn into the fabric of every aspect of pop culture nowadays

they are just everywhere often on the show we like to look back because looking back in forms of what's going on now

we we very often see our own reflection when we look back and today is going to be no different

we're going to look at chart toppers the chart toppers and a number of different, very interesting market reports that are from

the very late 80s, the very early 1990s, combination of two, two issues full of market reports.

40 pages. If I were to read all of these market reports to you, we would be here

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