Look up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Superman. Today we discuss the greatest superhero of all time.

Instantly identifiable, recognizable, all across the globe.

Superman has impacted so much of pop culture and comic books in general.

He was the first great comic book American superhero icon today we

discuss the influences the inspiration that his creators drew upon which

characters which authors informed the shape of their seminal superhero and all of the characters all all of the Superman tropes that followed.

So many Superman characters followed in the wake of Superman.

We dive in and discuss as many of them as we can possibly fit into an all new episode of

Rob's observations.

Hey everybody, this is Rob Leifeld.

You are listening to another edition of Robeservations, the comic book and pop culture

show.

Are they kind of the same thing now?

It seems like they are.

This show chronicles the journey that I have taken since I was

six, seven years old, 1974, 1975, grabbing comic books off rusty old spinner racks at the liquor

store, the 7-Eleven, the 5-and-Dime, yes, they called them the 5-and-dime, the drugstore,

and just consuming my life, superheroes, sword and

sorcery, all of different comic book adventures, and watching them grow to where they are now,

two giant multi-million dollar productions that we see on the regular. And the

crossover that has occurred in my lifetime, in my lifetime is just something amazing to behold.

And there is so much history in between.

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