Are #1’s Overvalued? The very high end of the comic collecting world is crowded with character 1st appearances. Of the top 10 Golden Age comics 7 are 1st appearances of a character, same thing for the Silver Age 7 out of 10 while in the Bronze Age 6 out of the top 10 comics by Overstreet...

I’ll cut right to the chase: this movie is exceptionally bad. Now I wasn’t expecting greatness from this motion picture, and I actually thought that the first movie was okay. Not great, but okay. And I can appreciate the ridiculousness that Nick Cage can bring to a story. His...

This weekend Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance comes to theatres. I know there are a lot of people who didn’t like the first movie, but I loved it.  I’m not the biggest Nicolas Cage fan (Wild at Heart was horrible and it wasn’t until The Rock that I watched a Nic Cage movie...

The word boycott has been floating around our universe a lot lately, and rightfully so in some cases. “We should boycott The Avengers! Marvel’s treated Kirby like a second class citizen!” “Everyone shouldn’t buy Before The Watchmen because DC screwed over Alan...

With the movie's release in sight, Marvel commissioned a new Ghost Rider series to bring the rider of vengeance back into our hands. This week CBD takes a look at issue eight of the series.

Marvel Premiere #28, Marvel Comics, February 1976 Can’t figure out why but I was compelled to a Halloween theme this week. In my Undervalued Spotlight #84 I mentioned the proliferation of horror based characters right after the Comics Code Authority relaxed some of its very stringent...

This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija old comic books selling for tons of money, the new Ghost Rider movie, the new Sin City movie, comic book “pressing”, as well as a complete recap of the just finished Fan Expo held in Toronto so kick back, relax and...

Amazing Spider-Man #101, Marvel Comics, October 1971 The issue marks the first time Stan Lee did not script Amazing Spider-Man. Stan the Man had his hand in the first 100 but passed the pen to scribe Roy Thomas for this issue. ASM #101 is truly the end of an era. While the Stan Lee era ended...

We’re going to take a little departure from the usual format here. I’ve kept mum on the most part about Shadowland mostly due to the sheer volume of titles published since the story began in July. That’s especially the case with legitimate stinkers like the Bullseye one-shot....

Marvel Team-Up #15, Marvel Comics, November 1973 A pick for Halloween. As far as Bronze Age Marvel characters go Ghost Rider was one of the better creations. Motorcycle stuntman Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephisto (Satan) in order to save the life of his mentor. Blaze’s soul ends up...

Shadowland is about to descend upon Marvel’s heroes. With the summer event drawing ever closer, this week we’re previewing the potential blockbuster that will pit a dozen of Marvel’s best characters ranging from super powered arachnids to adept martial arts masters against one another...