ComicLink May 2011 Featured Auction The ComicLink May Featured Auction has just ended. Of the top 50 sales 35 were Timely/Marvel while 13 were DC and there was also the Holy Grail of underground comics Zap #1 (a CGC 9.6 sold for $18,100.00) and there was a Warren Magazine Vamperella #1 (a CGC...

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 a great interview composition from Don Heck contained this...

A great new clip from the upcoming X-Men: First Class.  They’ve gathered a really outstanding cast for this and we get just a...

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...

Welcome to another installment of Pick Five, where one of our writers picks five of whatever comic related “fill in the blank” that tickles their fancy. Video games and comic books go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Or at least sometimes they do. Here is my list of the best. 5....

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...

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....

Remember last week when I mentioned that my next column would be all about an alternate X-Men universe? Yeah… well… it didn’t go as planned. Here’s the story. About two or three weeks ago, I get a brilliant idea for an upcoming column. With this new Age of X...

I’ve toyed with this idea for some time, and hopefully I’ll be able to make this a regular thing. So, for my first foray into CBD’s blogosphere, I’ll be looking at the this past weekend’s Toronto Comic Con. Like the other smaller conventions organized by...

My Greatest Adventure #80,  DC Comics, June 1963 This comic book has the perfect mix of history, controversy, age and quality to make it a must have. First off there is a bit of a dispute revolving around the creative team. Though writers Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, artist Bruno Premiani and...

So after our podcast this week, a listener wrote to me talking about how he was thinking about why the Iron Man comic hasn’t really translated into huge sales, given the enormous success of the movies. Ian Warren writes: The comic itself was further ostracizing. The movie “Iron Man”...

X-Men fans gathered after a long day at the Con to find out what the future holds for their favourite mutants, and they weren’t disappointed. Joined by Senior Vice President C.B. Cebulski and creators Whilce Portacio, Valentino DeLandro and Leonard Kirk, Marvel’s manager of sales and...

Writers: Zeb Wells, Mike Carey, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and Matt Fraction Artists: Ibraim Roberson, Esad Ribic, Terry and Rachel Dobson, Greg Land, Jay Leisten Colours: Matt Milla, Matt Wilson, Frank Martin, Brad Anderson. With this final issue of the Second Coming story, five years of X-Men...

Marvel is proud to present your first look at X-Men #1 from the red-hot creative team of Victor Gischler and Paco Medina. In the first X-Men #1 in almost 20 years, Marvel’s mighty mutants enter the Heroic Age to face a deadly new threat in a battle that will drastically alter the ENTIRE...

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

Marvel has released this teaser image by Daniel Acuña featuring Emma Frost, Cyclops and Magneto framed by a stained glass border with the single statement that “One Will Lead…” inscribed above the trio. No other information accompanied the image aside form the email’s...