Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Auction Highlights #43 – ComicLink August
Undervalued Spotlight #52
Why are we thinking of this? #10
Terribly sorry for the large intervals between articles but I’ve been held captive by Dr Doom, much like the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Children Crusade! Why doesn’t the Asbestos Man have cancer yet? Professor Orson Karloff was one of the…
Fan Expo 2010 Day Three: Out With A Bang
Fan Expo 2010 is done for me. None of my Sunday goals were reached and the show remained packed; no last day slow down. It’s solid for the retailers but as a buyer I like bargain hunting at the end…
Fan Expo 2010 Day Two: Art who?
Saturday at Fan Expo was crazier than usual: the crowds were so intense all afternoon there was a long line waiting to get in. If only the deals were that crazy… I dedicated the day to getting various hardcovers signed.…
Fan Expo 2010 Day One: Art and Hardcovers
Fan Expo 2010 started today at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The early bird package had a 2:00 PM entrance and there were hundreds lined up to get in: I’ve never seen a crowd that large buying a premium VIP…
Undervalued Spotlight #51
Bound Together | Captain America The Classic Years
In 1989 Marvel decided to give some Joe Simon and Jack Kirby works the deluxe treatment in the form of hardcover reprints. The Fighting American, Captain America and Boys Ranch were reprinted as hardcover volumes outside of the Marvel Masterworks…
Undervalued Spotlight #50
Undervalued Spotlight #49
Auction Highlights #42 – ComicLink
Undervalued Spotlight #48
Why are we thinking about this? #9
Apologies for the hiatus but we’re backing with another mindnumbing installment of Why are we thinking about this? What happens to size-changing superheroes that eat before size alterations? In Marc Millar’s Ultimates, it is specifically stated by the Wasp to…
Bound Together | Longmeadow Press DC Collections
It was 1989 and DC comics was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Batman. They had started slowly publishing reprint material in softcover trade paperbacks but hardcover editions were left to Warner Books, Graphitti Designs and with these volumes Longmeadow Press.…
Collecting and Investing Tip #43: What are the early Marvel keys?
Undervalued Spotlight #47
Undervalued Spotlight #46
Undervalued Spotlight #45
Crazy Comic Cover: Jimmy Olsen #127 “The Secret Slum-lord of Metropolis”
The Cover: Why does Jimmy Olsen even consider Superman a friend? Superman apparently can’t take a joke or something, as he tells Jimmy off for being a wise-guy and rebuffs his pleas to being rescued from the slum! Can we…