Robserecaps Thirty Six – The Comic Book Greats! Stan Lee! Todd McFarlane! Image Comics!
We revisit the Comic Book Legends video series, which are readily available on YouTube, from the 90’s that the Rob, Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane did with Stan Lee. Last time this came up, the Rob was not very kind to Stan, let’s see if time has changed this.
- The same weekend the Rob, Jim and Todd filmed these videos is also the same weekend they announced Image Comics
- I wish I had copies of the original Robservations, the self published fanzine the Rob made in his youth
- The Rob equates the recent James Gunn DCU announcement, which the Rob is not gonna talk about, to a nuclear arms treaty
- After talking about the James Gunn DCU announcement for several minutes, we start talking about the 31st anniversary of Image Comics
- The famous first picture of the Image creators, that is NOT Whilce Portacio, but actually the Rob’s friend Hank Kanalz and was taken at Mark Silvestri’s Malibu home
- Paul Burke, who owned Stabur Graphics, reached out to Todd, Jim and the Rob, pitching the series of today’s comic book greats, in a series of videos hosted by Stan Lee, low budget, one take, no rehearsal stuff
- At this time in early 1992, Stan was “as lost as he’s gonna get” when it comes to the comics industry, mostly off in Hollywood pushing Marvel properties as cartoons and the She-Hulk live action TV show, his stock was at an all time low and fans had already forgotten him
- Flash forward to 2007, the Rob had a meeting with ‘the man who would eventually manage Stan Lee’ who wanted to buy some of the Rob’s original art, specifically Onslaught Reborn pages. At this meeting, he tells the Rob his plan to turn Stan into the global superstar we’d come to know Stan as
- Prior to this, the Rob took a meeting with Stan at his office, “a closet with a great view” where Stan wanted to make characters together but nothing panned out
- This weekend in 1992, the Image boys also met with George Perez to join the crew, but he politely declined
- If the Rob could change one thing about these videos, the Rob would have worn pants, not shorts, and maybe taken a shower
- Bob Kane, who talks like Snagglepuss, took a drawing Todd did in Batman Year Two, redrew it, and passed it off as his own and was also very rude to Stan in their segments
- When Mark Silvestri was drawing Conan in the 80’s, he was also on the bodybuilding circuit
- How a vampire turns another, Todd turned Mark to leave Marvel
- the episode kind of ends on a whimper as the Rob reads an email from Doodlesurge and plugs all his stuff for the last ten minutes
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