Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
This past weekend I went to the Hamilton Public Library to attend the Hamilton Cartoon Foundry event. Our very own Ivan Kocmarek was instrumental in making the event happen; the whole day was a celebration of Hamilton comic booking and…
Last week Chris went to the Niagara Falls Comic Con. Walt didn’t go and has a thousand questions about the con. Listen in and get Chris’ full report of his first show of the year. Please let us know what…
My first true comic con buying was most likely in 1984, as a young buck I remember setting up with a con with a small table to sell stuff I had and didn’t want so I could make some money…
This week Chris tries figure out why Walt isn’t doing any comic cons this year. Chris pokes, he prods, he reasons, he makes tons of good arguments for setting up at cons. The question is, will Walt listen? The show…
How is June here already? I have plans to leave my warehouse by the end of this year. When I made the decision back in December, I imagined I’d have about 40% of the warehouse dispositioned, moved, sold or even…
Apologies, I’ll post for tomorrow morning. I was going to use the long weekend as an excuse when I remembered our long weekend was last week… Quick reminder that our Canadiana auction ends tonight! Click here to view all the…
We made the call that we won’t be setting up at Fan Expo Toronto this year; I’ll be travelling to Europe for three plus weeks and will be getting back just before the show. They moved the Montreal date on…
This week Chris and Walt talk about how to collect artists. Do you stay with comics or add portfolios, artist editions, prints, original art? Collecting artists can really add layers to anyone’s collection. Please let us know what you thought…
Canadiana Auction update. Back in 1980 three young Canadians drove down to the Marvel offices in New York to pitch an idea they had for Marvel’s popular What If… title. Our boys Jim Waley, Gene Day and Vince Marchesano came…
This past Saturday was Free Comic Book Day: I hope everyone was able to make it out to their local comic shop (LCS) to help support them and to enjoy all the free comics. We’d love to hear your review…
We’ll be posting our regular show this coming Friday morning. Today we’d like to post a special time-sensitive PSA insert Comic Culture episode to allow Chris and Walt to discuss the upcoming Canadiana auction hosted by icecollectibles on their eBay…
Last week I tackled this huge pile of 12-cent Fantastic Four comics destined for our weekly eBay auction. I had fun seeing all those great Jack Kirby covers. I got to thinking about Kirby and how ridiculous his body of…
Chris and Walt are back with a vengeance, tackling the tough questions around what to do with all those investment comics we’ve bought up over the past couple of years, you know, the ones we paid way too much for.…
Our old chum Chris Owen popped by for a drink yesterday and we got to chatting a bit about comics and the dilemma facing the people that bought investment books these past couple of years. Luckily the batteries in our…
A guy brought in some rag copies of some pretty good Silver and Bronze age books and I did what any sane shopkeep should do: I bought them up. These things are low grade, so low I would have turned…
Sidetracked again, this time by Orthodox Easter. Well, maybe not by the day but most certainly by my weakness of trying to be a good guest. My wife thinks I give into peer pressure way too easily but when I’m…
We’ve picked our date for our annual eBay Canadiana Auction: it will go live Friday, May 19th and finish up Monday, May 29th. This will be our 3rd Canadiana auction and will easily be our biggest and best yet; we…
I’ve talked to a few people that attended the Toronto Comic Con this past weekend and they allsaid the show was super busy. This is the spring version of the much larger Fan Expo that goes on in late August,…
When the missus and I were dating way back when she mentioned she liked Vivaldi so I went out and bought her a Vivaldi Four Seasons CD. She thanked me and then mentioned she didn’t have a CD player… Anyway,…
A couple of weeks ago I was stressing about a box coming back from CGC. On shipment tracking, it was showing “delayed” for days and I was starting to get antsy. There was good reason to be nervous: inside the…