Kinda Blue
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…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Drug Testing
This week Chris tries once more to… Stump the Chump. How will Walt fare this time? Considering his perfect score the last time maybe we should call this episode… Stump the Champ! Please let us know what you thought of…
Hosers Unite! The Canadiana Auction
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…
Peak Kirby
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…
Post Covid Blues
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.…
High Floors
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…
A Jury Of My Peers
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…
Weather Related
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…
It’s What’s Inside That Counts
As I was gathering thoughts for this week’s post I realized the post was going to be, as all the past posts were, a celebration of what’s inside the comic. So these posts are kind of anti-grading posts. Come to…
Auction Focus
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,…
Spring
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,…
That’s So Yesterday
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…
Cover Me
I’ve been thinking a lot about comic book covers lately. I’ve been trying to figure out, in some measurable way, what makes a comic book cover work, what makes it sought after as a collectible. As most cover connoisseurs know…
The waiting is the hardest part
This time of year I wake up and the first thing I do is check the two-week weather forecast. Southern Ontario is a cold place and I’m hoping to see some cracks in the weather out past St Patrick’s Day!…
The Art of Creating
A few days ago Chris Owen and I were sharing a pint and having a chat about the two things we’re experts at girls and comics. While the girl discussion fell into silence after a few seconds we really caught…
It’s Alive!
I was going through this week’s “heading to eBay auction” pile and was having fun looking through stacks of Jiggs and Maggie, Nancy and Sluggy, Black Hood, Steel Sterling and other cool and obscure characters of yesterday. It dawned on…
Bottom Feeders
Is it happening? Are we in and around the bottoming out of the comic market? I’m not sure but my Spidey sense says maybe. I’ve noticed a few sales on our eBay auction this week that point to things stabilizing.…
Love is in the air
This week Chris and Walt are joined by Shekky as the three amigos convene for their annual Valentine’s Day Poem Off. We can honestly say, with no hyperbole, that this was the worst set of poems we’ve ever read on…
The Baker Has Left the Building
A crowded day for posts as we try to fit in a couple of Valentine’s Day-themed posts in before the big day. Tomorrow I’ll post my regular Time to Collect article. Our pal Alex Sorensen just can’t leave well enough…
Love Ain’t Cheap
The Mighty Alex Sorensen sent us this great study on the high-end Romance Comics market. I know a big auction of Romance Books just finished up on Heritage; hopefully, Alex can critique it a bit as to how it fits…