Comic Culture April 11th

Fun show this week as hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk about Iron Man 3 movie news, Captain America 2 movies news, Avengers movie news, Batman movie news and Spider-Man movie news, boy that’s a lot of movie news. The guys also discuss the comic book sales results for March...

Avengers: X-Sanction #3

Putting aside any jokes about this being an Oz-like shower scene, this cover is disturbing and hilarious on a number of levels. I like to interpret it as a metaphor: Ed McGuinness is claiming the title of “artist of absurd musculature” from Rob...

Stuff from NYCC 2011

This past weekend was New York Comic Con.  This would be an event I would love to go to someday (San Diego being the other convention I’d love to go to).  Since I wasn’t there, and away from my computer all weekend, I spent the beginning of this week checking out the interwebs...

Comic Culture Sept 14th

This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk about Hulk vs Dracula, all the new superhero DVD’s hitting the stores, the Wolverine Gold Team, a Walking Dead talk show, DC’s New 52, the top 10 reasons comic shops under ordered DC’s New 52 and lots more so...

Auction Highlights #50 – ComicLink January 2011

ComicLink January Focused Auction The ComicLink January Focused Auction has just ended. True to ComicLink form 19 of the top 20 sales were Marvels. DC’s only top 20 book was a Rocky Mountain Pedigree copy of Detective Comics #359 (CGC 9.8) that took 3rd spot fetching a cool $9,300.00....

Auction Highlights #49 – Merry Christmas?

Do Christmas covers on comic books equal easy sales this time of year? Dell Giant #40, Dell Publishing (12/60) Graded by CGC at 9.4 with Cream to Off White pages sold for $51.55 on eBay on December 12th. The 40th edition Overstreet price guide value for this comic at 9.2 is $125.00. Wow, this...

WHOSOEVER HOLDS THIS HAMMER: Christmas Fun

I am sick today. So in keeping with the season and with me not having to do much work, here is a picture of the Hulk punching Santa. You’re...

Hulk, Cloak and Dagger Heading for TV

The Hollywood Reporter says Marvel Television (a division of Marvel Studios) is planning to develop a new Hulk TV series with the ABC TV network. Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb has hinted that a Cloak and Dagger TV show is also being planned. The Hulk of course will be able to draw off an existing...

Collecting and Investing Tip #43: What are the early Marvel keys?

What kind of features should we demand of a principle Marvel key? This group of comics is one of the most important investing blocks in the hobby. People are buying up high grade Marvel keys as a group and you can’t really have one without any of the others and call yourself a true high end collector...

Whosoever Holds This Hammer | Where Did All The Words Go?

Every Wednesday I race home with a bunch of comics and start to read through the pile. I do this because of my extreme dedication to excellence in the field of professionalism; in short, I do it for you, the reader. On average it takes about 15-20 minutes to read a comic book. I should clarify...

Reimagination of the Day: Comic Book Covers

Reimagination of the Day: Redesigned comic book covers — part of an ongoing series by British graphic design Steven Finch (AKA Fonografiks). Watchmen; Fantastic Four; Hulk; Daredevil: Born Again. Pretty awesome...

Undervalued Spotlight #33

The Avengers were Marvel’s unchallenged super hero team for a full 8 years before their first real challengers appeared...

Auction Highlights #25

I’ll review some Silver Age results; tomorrow I’ll go over some Bronze Age highlights