And here we go. Today, we continue our journey through 1983.

The talents, the hits, the songs, the shows.

Marvel's Canadian Super Team takes flight, breaking records in the process.

The English invasion of bands hits the U.S.

Duran Duran, Madness, Culture Club, Thomas Dolby, the Human League.

But none of them can unseat the megastars who grip the top of the charts.

Five acts charted number one in 1983.

Five acts with number one albums.

One for 22 weeks.

Another for 17.

What a crazy great year for entertainment.

And we dive into all of it on an all new episode of Robservations.

Welcome, everyone, to another edition of Rob Observations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld.

My career has been spent making comic books, and on this podcast, we talk about comic books and the amazing worlds that they've spawned and the realms that they now occupy, the realm of filmmaking, movies, streaming, the incredible amount of merchandise. I am not a giant video game head, but video games,

comic book superheroes dominate them in a way that they've never, ever before. I mean,

we've got superhero characters dropping into other established franchises, like Mortal Kombat.

Superheroes have never been a bigger deal.

Comic books have never been a bigger deal.

And having produced them, written them, drawn them, created them for 37 years,

I decided to talk about it on this show.

And we have such a great episode for you today.

It is part two of our decades series

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