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🗓️ 3 February 2023
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0:00.0 | Today we are remembering a time, that time being 1992, one weekend specifically where superstar talents from comic books all gathered to film a series |
0:24.4 | of videos that would make their way into the public. |
0:27.3 | But at the same time, a select group of them would gather in Malibu, California, to announce |
0:34.7 | a plan to form a brand new company. |
0:38.3 | That weekend was a weekend that would change comic books forever and did, and we're going to discuss it today. |
0:44.9 | Stanley, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Mark Silvestri, Bob Kane. |
0:50.8 | Today, it's all about the comic book greats on an all-new Robeservations. |
0:59.2 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld, and these are my |
1:07.0 | observations, hence the corny Rob observations handle. Did you know that I had a Robeservations |
1:13.4 | newsletter when I was a kid? I later made that the name of my column in a fan magazine that I did |
1:22.9 | with X amount of different fan members. They were called amateur press associations. |
1:27.9 | I think I've discussed this in the past. |
1:31.2 | But amateur press associations called APAs were huge in the 80s. |
1:37.3 | And I was able to join a couple of them. |
1:39.8 | One of them in particular was about the Teen Titans, |
1:42.5 | which was a favorite comic book of mine. |
1:45.9 | And the number one reason that I joined that was because the artist of the Teen Titans, George Perez, |
1:52.8 | drew a cover, drew an actual cover that DC would use two full years later. |
1:59.9 | But he drew a cover for the fan club. So I'm like, wow, |
2:03.8 | George Perez, who I had seen on the circuit, who I'd known gotten book signed from, I learned |
2:10.2 | because he had the originally said, this is a cover to the Teen Titan fan club, APA. |
2:17.4 | And in an APA, in an amateur press association everybody is |
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