THE MARVELOUS MOON KNIGHT!

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

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

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

As The MCU prepares to welcome the mysterious Moon Knight into their ranks, Rob goes all the way back to the beginning, behind the scenes with Moon Knight’s creators, sharing the inspirations and motivations that brought the Moon Knight character to life. The author’s share the challenges and the triumphs in creating a mythology that has thrived for over 47 years. Did Marvel encourage the Batman comparisons or discourage the similarities between the two? Just how much was Moon Knight outselling all other Marvel comics as well as the Caped Crusader himself?

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0:00.0	Today we are all about Moon Night with the big Disney Plus series set to premiere.
0:18.5	In just a few weeks, we take it all the way back to the very
0:22.4	beginning, the inspirations, the very purpose for Moon Knight's existence with the origin,
0:28.9	the origins from the author and the creators of the classic work that put Moon Knight on the
0:34.6	map. These are the guys that made Moon Night and made him such a giant hit.
0:38.3	And we discussed how Marvel carefully placed Moon Night throughout their line to continue building him and his popularity when he was first created and formed.
0:48.3	And did, did a Marvel editor actually tell the artist of Moon Night? Did a Marvel editor actually tell the artist of Moon Night?
0:56.0	Did a Marvel editor actually say these words?
1:00.3	Since DC can't get Batman right, Marvel can.
1:05.2	And we'll show them how to do it.
1:06.9	Find out who said that when it was said, was it even said at all, on today's Rob Zervations.
1:17.4	Hey, everybody.
1:18.8	This is Rob Leifeld.
1:20.6	You are listening to another edition of Rob Zervations.
1:24.8	Robeservations is the comics industry,
1:28.4	the pop culture world,
1:30.4	streaming movies,
1:31.9	everything from my perspective since I was a kid,
1:35.4	seven years old growing up,
1:36.5	watching comic books develop
1:38.0	and just having them change my life influence me,
1:41.9	entertain me above all else.
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