The Crazy History of Rob Liefeld’s YOUNGBLOOD
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In the early 1889’s a number of comic book artists broke from MARVEL to form their own company. One of them was ROB LIEFELD and his first title for the new company was called YOUNGBLOOD.
There was promise of YOUNGBLOOD action figures and a cartoon but it was a property that instead descended into years of legal wrangling, lawsuits and rights issues.
We did our best to sort it out until, suddenly, we didn’t have to…
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngblood_(comics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Liefeld
https://www.cbr.com/to-the-extreme-a-conversation-with-rob-liefeld/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Comics
https://extremeexcursus.com/00-pre-history/
https://andrewrev9.wixsite.com/terrificproduction
https://gizmodo.com/comics-contracts-and-covid-inside-the-scandal-at-ter-1845120487
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rob-liefeld-andrew-rev-new-owner-of-youngblood/
https://www.facebook.com/rob.liefeld/posts/10219231410318717
https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/rob-liefeld-revives-youngblood-bookends-career/
https://independenttoys.news/2026/06/30/loosecollector-youngblood-figures-first-look-at-badrock-and-chapel-prototypes/
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@Desslar
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I don’t get how Youngblood could become a highly in demand phenomenon when so few issues were published, and so erratically. Any Marvel title that took 30 years to reach issue 100 would be seen as a D-tier rack-warmer.
@CesarIsaacPerez
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I'm looking forward to those (expensive) Loose Collector figures! They look great and hit certain nostalgia for when I was a teenager and read Younblood.
@Seal13666
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Soooo extreme!!! Soooo muscles!! Soooo booobas!!! Sooo 90s 😂😂
@CharleyIV
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Spawn, Wildcats, and Savage Dragon I tried to cling to.
@nicholaspaiva9996
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Make a vídeo about captain simian & the space monkeys
@GodKaiserHell
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Thanks for the video.
@steve6333
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Hi Mark, I did not beat her was all I could think of when the Chicago guy took possession.
@Arinesart
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
"Influence of George Perez" HUGE LOL.
Pretty much, his only decent work is Hawk and Dove, and that was saved by Karl Kesel, which fixed and covered all of Rob's shitty mistakes with his inking.
By the was, if the cover you mention is the art from the ad in the video, that is most certainly not inked by Jerry Ordway.
@Rogue-a-Pogue
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I appreciate the irony of the guy famous for drawing increasingly improbable laser guns not trusting Lazic.
@classicplasticvideogamefanatic
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Am I the only person that thinks young Rob Liefeld looks like a knock off Matt Damon?
@thescowlingschnauzer
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
"Only provided general plot summaries" — you mean the Marvel Method?
@deadbang68
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I had some friends who owned comic book stores and due to Liefled's soliciting and not delivering on the books, cost them money, not a fan of this guy and never will be.
@samhaskins127
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Yo yo yo! Repping the Granite State here with ya!
@TheFLAMEXD
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Daaaaaaamn, hearing you swear is kinda scary. 😂
@jacobn8509
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
This one time, my boyfriend and I linked each other images from a Rob Liefeld art gallery and made fun of our links at length. It was only after my boyfriend mentioned the Fantastic Four that I realized we had linked two different images and were making fun of them–they both had not-Wolverines chasing the protagonists through space with conveniently feet-hiding vehicles.
@DoomyRei
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
This is why Marvel owns everything too.much infighting over who owns what
@Harrrrp
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
You are such a nerd man your wife is mad you play with toys too much
@WSJohnny
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
wait so where is this at??? it should be rebooted or wtf ever you want to called it lol
@ejim941099
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Ahh yes, Rob “fake it till you make it” Liefeld.
@jessespencer6330
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Only one character made it out of young blood to any kind of fame ……….and then spawn totally f'cked him up 😂😂
@PuertoGeekan
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
11:51 The origin of The Minions?
@BBpaintball
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I ❤️ New Hampshire. The US would be better off if there were 45 other states like that in the Union.
@paulmay1729
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I miss Malibu.
@DfB1999
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Youngblood sucked.
@RemyXAnarchy
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Probably electro magnetics 1:08
@stevenfunderburg1623
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
It's funny that Rob did indeed vacuum absorb his glimpses during conversations of industry mechanics including the materials and conditions used for the commercial production of comics (which his career success proves is more important than learning to draw a human foot or bowstring) but then as soon as he breaks in professionally he disposed of the well known industry standard of drawing images on pro comics board at much larger scale than they will appear in the published comic, and just drew on regular sized blank stationary paper because that was more comfortable for him.
@davehandelman2832
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
It's was almost a shame. Rob is so passionate. It's his and should remain his. Forever.
@melasnexperience
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
I'm happy for Rob that he can work on his own creation again, and I hope this is a step towards the rights to the Comico library being liberated.
@Bartdegans
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
man that was a looong time ago i read a Rob Liefeld comic.
@brew1234567891
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Could’ve been up there with Spawn. Instead I avoid it like a plague. “What could’ve been “
@n.maximo5505
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
Rob Liefeld is such a dufus. I appreciate what he was ABLE to accomplish, but Gyad dang if he isn't just so LATE all the time.
@y2jubaereturns439
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
collectors in the 90s. I'm getting 10 copies of youngblood 1, so I can retire early.
@ricconway8719
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
"…still just very late." And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Liefeld in a nutshell.
Well done, Sir!
@yotaruvegeta
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 pm
It’s amazing how Image looks now as compared to its early days.