Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
The names Joe Simon and Jack Kirby are synonymous with comic books, and their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of comics starting in the 1940s. Together they created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman, invented romance comics,…
We’ll start 2018 off with another segment of Jack Kirby/Stan Lee’s terrific run of Fantastic Four #1-67. Although I have always personally thought “peak time” for this run was #44-60, you can make a pretty good case for the ten-issue…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Kirby, Royer, Buscema, Roussos, Raymond, Windsor-Smith, Steranko.
Remembrance Day has just past so in this week’s arcs & runs we will take a look at the first six issues of Marvel’s World War II comic title Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos. War comics were very popular…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Heck, Esposito, Roussos, Buscema, Kirby, Royer, Lee, Williams, Giacoia.
Fantastic Four #24 March 1964 The Infant Terrible A standard Kirby/Lee production In this month’s edition of Overvalued Overstreet we turn our attention to comic retailers and collectors current nightmare: the dreaded “run” book. I always chuckle at this term…
We continue our series on the “First Six” this month featuring the first six issues of the Incredible Hulk. This series is unique in that it was cancelled after issue #6. Commercially it might have failed, or it could have…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days: Ditko, Heck Roussos, Plastino, Caniff, Miller, Janson.
Comic Connect Winter Special Auction (#330) Session 1 Original Art wrapped up this week. It was a particularly strong showing for this auction house and had a varied range of outstanding material. Reserves on the higher end pieces hurt sales.…
The original art portion of ComicConnect’s Event Auction XXXVI closed Monday March 23rd. The art offered is a mixture of high and low end material: anything could end up in the mix. This time around several pieces didn’t meet their…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly at the ComicLink January 2015 Focused Auction.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly from the collection of James Halperin, founder of Heritage.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly from ComicConnect's June Event Auction.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.