Undervalued Spotlight #138
True Crime Comics, Vol. 1 #2, Magazine Village (May 1947) There was this great crime comic collection I bought back in the late 1980s. The collection consisted of 300 or so crime comics, much of the stuff I’d never seen…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Night of the Living Dead Live!
OK zombie fans, in case you haven’t heard, there is going to be a live theatre production of George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead. I got a chance to sit down with Executive Producer Marty Birthelmer and talk…
Web Arted Oct 26th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Maleev, Everett, Johnson, Kirby, Miller, Sienkiewicz, Infantino, Coland, Dodson, Ditko and more!
What Happens To Your Comics When You Die
This past weekend I was watching the National Geographic channel and there was a program on called Fortune Finders. The show focuses on the Public Administrators office in Las Vegas. After someone dies in Las Vegas, with no apparent next…
Auction Highlights #72
The Comic Link October Focused Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday October 23rd and Wednesday October 24th. C-Link produced a rare dud with this auction. Sure there were some solid books but when your top book…
Spider-man Turn Off the Dark and more
Sadly this week I won’t be posting a video blog. It being cold and flu season, I was unlucky enough to catch a cold and no one needs to see that. So, I thought I would post this article about…
Collected Editions Back Issue Market
Every comic convention I attend and comic shop I visit gives me an opportunity to scour shelves and stacks for dusty hardcovers from the 1980s. Why? I can’t really say: I love rare comic hardcovers from smaller publishers like Graphitti,…
Comic Culture October 24th 2012
It’s another pre-Halloween themed show this week. Chris and Walt get all excited about the Justice League movie news and about the new Iron Man 3 trailer. The new DVD on on Stan Lee is discussed as is news of…
BIFF SOCKO: You Lied to Me, Larry! Why? WHY?
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE – It…
The London Cartoon Museum
I’m not sure if ‘Half Term’ is something that happens in Canada or the US but on this side of the pond, every school in the UK take a break for a week in the middle of each term and…
Undervalued Spotlight #137
Archie Comics #7, MLJ Magazines (March-April 1944) I heard through a contact that a CGC graded 6.5 Pep Comics #22 (1st appearance Archie Andrews, Dec 1941) sold for around $120,000. The deal apparently went down at a dealer booth at…
Iron Man 3 Trailer
Here's the first full Iron Man 3 trailer and poster.
Absolute-ly | #4: Moebius’ Silver Surfer
After a very long hiatus we’re back with another edition of Absolute-ly, a look at material that deserves to be in a gigantic art loving format akin to DC’s Absolute, Dark Horse’s Library or IDW’s Artist Edition. Silver Surfer:…
Review | Dancer
DANCER is a book for sensitive types who appreciate the romance of looking at the world through a sniper scope.
Web Arted Oct 19th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: an embarrassment of riches this week, really!
Daredevil, Spider-Man and Fairy Tales
This week the internet and Twitter-verse have been chock full of cool comic book news. So instead of me rambling on, let’s just jump into the stuff that caught my attention. Daredevil Movie Rights Go Back to Marvel It looks…
Review | Saga Volume 1
A compelling and empathetic tale of two people from different cultures trying to make it work, Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples render a “human” tale. From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE…
New York Comic Con
This weekend my husband and I were lucky enough to go to New York Comic Con. We flew to New York on Friday morning, checked into my hotel and went right to the con. When we got there, the scene…
Comic Culture October 17th 2012
It’s another Halloween themed show this week. Chris and Walt talk about the great ratings the Walking Dead TV show is getting and they discuss the scary attendance numbers that were put up by the New York Comic Con. The…
My Little Pony Hits 90,000 Preorders
The big news to me this week was that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Issue 1 has hit 90,100 advance orders through Diamond; I was also amused that Rich Johnston has access to Diamond preorder numbers but that’s not…
Biff Socko: While My Grifter Softly Weeps
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD- It’s official: IRON…