Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Detective Comics #27, DC Comics, (May 1939) Graded by CGC at 7.0 with Off White pages sold for $492,937.00 (including the buyers premium) on Heritage Auctions on November 17th. Detective Comics #27 is considered by many to be the second…
Comic Culture: November 17th This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija are joined by the shows producer Anthony Falcone. Show engineer James MacIntosh also chimes in. Topics range from the death of Spider-Man and Grant Morrison to Pride and…
Doorway to Nightmare #1, DC Comics, February 1978 Nimue Inwudu is one very cool character! Inspired by the Sorceress Nimue of the Camelot legend the immortal Madame Xanadu reads Tarot cards, tells fortunes and delves into all things mystic and supernatural. She picked up the…
Comic Culture: November 10th This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija go it alone (with some help from show engineer James MacIntosh). The boys cover a whole bunch of comic book related topics including DC’s new Arena Tour, Walking…
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #5, Dell Publishing, March 1942 The funny animal genre used to be a very important genre in the high end comic collectible market. Looking back at Overstreet Price Guide #14 (1984/85 with the Katy…
Comic Culture: The Mike Laidman Interview. Mike Laidman, creator of the MikesStupidComics web comic and member of the ThisWeekInGeek podcast team, joins hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija this week. Mike’s agent and girlfriend Laura Thomas is also a guest…
Comic Culture: The Halloween edition. Zombie actor John Migliore joins hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija this week and the gang have a blast talking about the Walking Dead TV show and all things Zombies. Check John’s blog out here;…
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…
Comic Culture This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija welcome David Carson. David is the director of Graphic Design Production – Integrated Animation at Hamilton, Ontario’s Mohawk College. This week the gang talks about the New Orleans Comic Con,…
Dark Horse Presents #1, Dark Horse Comics, June July/1986 Back in February 1935 a guy named Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published a comic called New Fun Comics. New Fun contained funny animal stories and western stories that are of no real significance…
Twilight Zone #84, Gold Key, June 1978 There are many collecting strains within the comic book collecting hobby. First appearances, first issues, publishers, titles, battle covers, love triangle covers, risqué covers, comics mentioned in SOTI, variant prices on covers, variant…
Comic Culture Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk about a wide variety of comic book related stuff this week including the New York Comic Con, Stan Lee teaming up with the NHL, DC Comics cutting the prices of their…
Amazing Spider-Man #1 I was rummaging through a bunch eBay auctions when I came across some interesting activity around Amazing Spider-Man #1. Amazing Spider-Man #1, Marvel Comics (March, 1963) Graded by CGC at 2.5 with Off White to White pages…
Comic Culture This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija welcome very special guests Brimstone, writer Marcello Carnevali and artist Sajad Shah. The New York based trio’s new Borderhounds project is discussed (as are lots of other cool comic book type stuff).…
Conan the Barbarian #1, Marvel Comics, October 1970 Conan the Barbarian was an important comic book in many ways. Some argue the book ushered in the Bronze Age while others look to Marvel’s first major licensing effort (actually only $200…
I was poking around the auction sites and noticed some very sporadic activity around the Star Wars #1 comic book. The regular edition (30 cent cover) of Star Wars #1 is a very popular book. The thing is also as…
Comic Culture This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija are joined by Comic Culture producer Anthony Falcone and by the new Comic Culture engineer James McIntosh. The guys explore a whole range of topics this week including DC’s new…
The Doll Man was introduced in a 4 page story called “Meet the Doll Man” in Quality Comics’ Feature Comics #27 (12/39). In the comic research Chemist Darrell Dane invents a formula that shrinks him down to 6 inches (though he’s still as strong as he was when he’s full size). The Doll Man is one of the very first superheroes. He predates the likes of...
ComicLink Focused Auction The ComicLink Focused Auctions are never as exciting as the Comic Link Features Auctions. Still, some very interesting things transpired. Let’s have a peek at what went down. Tales to Astonish #57, Marvel Comics (July/1964) Graded by PGX at…
Comic Culture This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija welcome cartoonist and artist Leif Peng. Leif and the guys discuss this weekend’s cartoonist show and seminar taking place at Hamilton’s Mohawk College. Please visit ncscanada.blogspot.com for more details. Now…