Collecting and Investing Tips #37
Remember that oh so true quote from that great fictional San Francisco Police Detective, Harry Callahan? Comic book fans are never short of opinions...
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Undervalued Spotlight #37
Today I’ve learned of the passing of Frank Frazetta. Even during his lifetime Mr. Frazetta was considered THE giant of 20th Century American fantasy illustration. His god-like status was well deserved. The Conan book covers he produced for Lancer Books in the 1960s single handedly defined a whole genre of art...
Crazy Comic Covers: Action Comics #593 “All that glisters”
The Cover: Booster Gold; the used car salesman of the DC universe is laying a pounding on Superman it seems. He’s smushing his face into the mud while Superman’s chin apparently has a water faucet in it judging by the…
Auction Highlights #36 – Iron Man
Iron Man seems the obvious theme this week. Make sure you check out the Iron Man 2 movie, and then jump on the net and buy up a bunch of old Iron Man comic books!
Collecting and Investing Tips #36
Probably should have posted this one last week (the week before Free Comic Book Day). That’s OK though, we get it done now and it can serve as the rallying cry for all FCBDs to come...
Undervalued Spotlight #36
The Phantom #74 is the last Charlton issue of series. Final issues are very collectible. Usually the print run is very low just before the plug is pulled. Later, when someone tries to collect the run they usually find that the last issue is...
Auction Highlights #35 – Batman
Batman just may be the most collected superhero of all. Let’s see how he’s been doing on the eBay marketplace. I selected a small random sample of Batman comics starting from the Golden Age right through to the Bronze Age...
Collecting and Investing Tips #35
Over the years I’ve purchased many large comic book collections. I still remember the first big collection I bought back in around 1986. There were over 7000 comics in this collection dating from the early 1940 through to the mid 1970s. This was the collection that set...
Why are we thinking of this? #6
Apologies dear readers for the long hiatus that this column of inane thought has accidentally taken. But we’re back for now and ready to think of even more stupid superhero problems. Why doesn’t the Flash fall through the floor when…
Undervalued Spotlight #35
Marvel Team-Up #22, Marvel Comics, June 1974 Spider-Man and Hawkeye team-up to take on Quasimodo! OK, I admit it’s not the kind of line up that would have had the kids running to the local variety store but other forces…
Auction Highlights #34 – Marvel Keys on the Ropes?
The April Focused auction has just ended on ComicLink. It is being said that the Marvel keys are retreating in value a bit, escpecially in the mid grades. Let’s look at the results and find out for ourselves.
Collecting and Investing Tip #34
I remember back in the early 80s when the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide had those big 10 issue groupings for most of the major Golden, Silver and Bronze age comic book titles. Amazing Spider-Man issues #131-140 were all worth the same...
Undervalued Spotlight #34
Dell Publishing had a longstanding agreement (since the late 30s) with Western Publishing to produce comic books based on properties that Western licensed from the likes of Disney, MGM, Warner Brothers, Hanna Barbera and others. This agreement was very lucrative for Dell and they fast became the largest comic book publisher. In 1962 Western Publishing decided to create their own comic imprint called Gold Key...
Auction Highlights #33 – The 6.5s
One of the toughest grades to get a handle on is the dreaded 6.5. The question is: Are you getting your money’s worth for the ½ grade improvement. Let’s use...
Collecting and Investing Tip #33
Jim Steranko’s first Marvel Comics work was Strange Tales #151. The high end Overstreet Price Guide value for this book is $135 versus $85 for the book just before and the book just after...
Undervalued Spotlight #33
The Avengers were Marvel’s unchallenged super hero team for a full 8 years before their first real challengers appeared...
Sleepy Censor #13
Ahhh. Archie comics in the 1960’s. The success of the Archie comics over the years had brought forth a number of spin-off titles to help satiate the hungry consumer’s need for wholesome, good-hearted family fun. And of course, what better way than to poke light at the romance between Betty and Archie.
Auction Highlights #32 – The good stuff
It should be noted that of the 100 most expensive comics listed on eBay in the past 2 weeks only 13 actually sold. The percentage was even worse if you don’t count the ones that...
Collecting and Investing Tip #32
Comic book conventions are dangerous places for impulse buyers. You can end up heading home with a 50 cent comic or you could end up heading home with a 4 foot R2D2 replica, a gorgeous 42” x 38” framed painting of Phoenix, 3 short boxes full of CGC graded comics, 2 Samurai swords, a Viking sword and a 50 cent comic...
Undervalued Spotlight #32
In my opinion Tales to Astonish #27 (Jan/62) is not one of the early Marvel Keys. “The Man in the Ant Hill” story featured the first appearance of Henry Pym but it was just another Sci-fi/fantasy story typical of the books Atlas Comics was producing at the time...