The Annual 42 Comic-Con International was held in San Diego, California, July 20 – 25. The weekend ended with a bang as Cowboys and Aliens premiered, Hugh Jackman made a special appearance, and Arkham City was released to the masses for a little preview. Twitter was full of information....

Last November Anthony Falcone wrote an article about “Collecting Comics Like I Was 10“.  The basic idea of collecting like your 10 years old is: “You bought comic books that you liked the cover for, or that had your favourite hero, or that had a crazy fight. And then you...

My recent Pick 5 focused on Canadian Superheroes.  Since Independence Day just recently passed, I got thinking of heroes who fought for “Old Glory”.  Here is my list of American Patriotic Superheroes. #5 Iron Patriot The Iron Patriot was Norman Osborn.  Osborn replaced Tony...

Came across this wonderful letter in my inbox this morning: Captain America has sold out to Corporate America! Dear Customer, Celebrate Captain America at Baskin Robbins! With the highly anticipated release of Captain America: The First Avenger out this summer, Baskin Robbins will...

ComicLink June 2011 Focused Auction The ComicLink Focused Featured Auction has just ended. Of the top 50 sales 45 were Marvel while 4 were DC and there was one Warren Magazine Vamperella #1 (a CGC 9.4 that sold for $2,117.00). Of the top 50 sales 43 were Silver Age comics while the remaining 7...

Captain America #117, Marvel Comics, September 1969 There’s an old saying that goes ‘timing is everything’ and the time seems right for me do dig this one out of my “Future Undervalued Spotlights” file. I read with sadness today of the passing of Gene Colan. My personal love for...

Here’s the latest theatrical trailer, 2:30 long. We’re treated to a new tag line: “heroes are made in America”. As well here’s the new “George Hamilton”...

Summer comic movie blockbusters.  There’s nothing like them.  What’s even better for us fans (and toy collectors) are the toys. This year we have new Thor, Green Lantern and Captain America toys hitting the shelves.  Already on those shelves are last year’s Iron Man 2...

Pedigree Grand Auction, May 17th Thanks to Charlie’s egging in the comments field of my last ComicLink Auction Highlights I’ve decided to cover my first Pedigree Grand Auction. Pedigree has been around for a while and they’ve produced some record sales in the past so there’s really no...

Every week Comic Book Daily asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers; we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans Daily for the inspiration.  This week’s question: Who is your favourite death and resurrection in...

Our first glimpse of warm weather reminds us that summer is just around the corner. April showers bring more than May flowers; they bring the start of the summer movie season. What comic book movies hit the big screen this summer? We have the run-down on the good and the bad coming to theaters...

Pep Comics #1 is an incredibly strong comic book. Just take a look at the great robot cover (one of the early robot covers in comics). This book feature the 1st appearance of the Shield, America’s 1st patriotic hero (Captain America was still a full 14 months away). Writer Harry Shorten and...

As I’ve previously mentioned on a few occasions, I’m a pretty big fan of pro wrestling. And as I’ve previously mentioned on those previous occasions, yes, I’m well aware that it’s scripted. I like my stories, OK? Wrestlemania is upon the horizon (don’t...

Kids today have it so easy. They have the internet; they don’t need to get up off the couch to change the channel and in the last 10 years we have seen some great movies based on comic books. However, for every yin there is a yang and we have also seen a lot of crummy comic book movies...

ComicLink February  Featured Auction I love ComicLink featured auctions, they always have some great books posted for the event and there are always headline earning results to report. Here’s a few highlights from the auction. Action Comics #1, DC Comics (June/1938) Graded by CGC at 0.5...

Marvel just sent out a press release about Captain America issue 616: it’s been well covered around the comic sites.  What captured my attention was the beautiful Travis Charest cover: why is this man not doing any comic interiors!  Although I think it’s his use of colour that...

Booya…just booya. Nothing in it looks bad so far that is all. Now that’s just an awesome Red...

This week young aspiring actor Marty Birthelmer joins Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija and helps them tackle all kinds of issues including bad buzz around the Green Lantern movie, Wonder Woman make up, Stan Lee deserving an Oscar, the new Captain America and Spider-Man...

Chris Evans as Captain America graces the cover of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. Is it just me or does Chris Evans look eerily like Nathan Fillion?  Via ICv2. Shelley Smarz is a comic book scholar and business...

With Chris Evans and the rest of the Captain America: The First Avenger crew hitting Comic Con this weekend, you can bet we’ll see the Star Spangled Avenger in his full regalia. To tide you over check out this poster, which Paramount will be handing out at the Con to get autographed...