The Decades: 1984 pt.1 - Ghostbustin’ & Cobra Kai!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Fresh franchises reached blockbuster status! Ghostbusters & Indiana Jones battled it out at the top of the charts! Gremlins, Karate Kid, Police Academy found the spotlight! Marvel’s Secret Wars series dominated the comic book scene and Spider Man was Back In Black! An incredible year of big swings and bigger hits!

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0:00.0	Today we take the way back machine.
0:14.0	We take it all the way back for so much more.
0:17.5	We're going to 1984.
0:20.0	It was the summer, the year of brand new
0:22.7	concepts, brand new characters,
0:25.2	franchises that didn't even know they were
0:26.8	franchises yet. Ghostbusters,
0:29.1	Karate Kid, Indiana
0:30.9	Jones, and the Temple of Doom
0:32.7	implements an all new rating
0:34.6	system. Things are
0:36.4	changing and we are right there examining it, looking at it.
0:40.5	What a surprising year in comic books.
0:42.8	Secret Wars was all the talk.
0:44.5	It was all the rage.
0:45.8	And Spider-Man got a brand new black costume that took comic books by storm.
0:50.6	We are going to check it all out on part one of 1984, an all new episode of Rob's
0:57.4	ervations.
1:02.4	Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Robeservations. I am your host, Rob Leifeld. If somehow
1:09.9	you stumbled here on accident, I will tell you up front, we talk comic books,
1:15.0	we talk superheroes, we talk superpowers, we talk the publishing of comic books,
1:19.6	and we talk the history of comic books, and the way that comic books and superheroes
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