Hey, you guys, it's another episode of Rob Observations. I am Rob Leifeld. I am guiding you down this path of comic

book history experience from my fan. I view as I consumed and just lived comic books.

They were such and remain a huge part of my life, of my existence.

I cannot remember a time when I did not have my head in a comic book.

I can remember a time when my mom would repeatedly slap me on the top of my head and say,

get your head out of a comic book, because

little Robbie Leifeld was totally consumed with comic books. Again, I say consumed all the time

because I don't necessarily collect them. If you saw the collection of my comics and the condition

of them, you would see I am not like a diehard collector, but I have many, many comics, and I

read through my comics. I many comics, and I read through

my comics, I pour over them, I dig through comics from 30, 40 years ago, and I get magic

memories. As I am certain so do so many of you today. The journey takes us to 1986,

34 years ago, a magic year for DC Comics.

DC Comics had grabbed the mic away from Marvel.

They had taken the platform.

They were now the dominant voice for about two years, maybe a little longer.

You can't keep Marvel at bay that long because Marvel is so

powerful. They are so influential. They had so many of the top creators. But what was happening in

1986 and what we are going to cover today is kind of the final piece of the exodus of talent that left Marvel comics and arrived

on DC shores to radically transform the DC viewpoint, the DC comic label, the reception of DC comics

by fandom. And if you don't think that those prominent Marvel creators were

crossing over and bringing huge audiences to their DC efforts, you're kidding yourself. It completely

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