Covered 365: Day 137
X-Men #137, Marvel Comics, September 1980 – Artist: John Byrne. X-Men #137 is our first offering from Mr. Byrne I believe, it’s such a striking cover and my favorite from the Dark Phoenix Saga run. The only cover that should…
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Undervalued Spotlight #442
X-Men #14, Marvel Comics, November 1965. Some X-Men books are enjoying some nice value appreciation lately so I thought I’d scour the catalog and find us a sleeper. I was never a big fan of the X-Men movies but there…
Covered 365: Day 94
X-Men #94 – Marvel Comics, August 1975 – Artist: Gil Kane. I love the combination of key issue and iconic cover. Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s the keyness of the issue that makes the cover seem iconic after but…
Covered 365: Day 59
A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Day 59 – X-Men #59, August 1969, Artist – Neal Adams. Neal Adams is in…
John Byrne’s X-Men Artifact Edition
Well, it has arrived! Now I am a regular collector of the Artist/Artifact Editions and without a doubt, this is a treasure. It’s hard to not rush through it the first time through, because there is page after page of…
X-Men Elsewhen
There was a thread on byrnerobotics.com over the last few weeks that generated a ton of excitement in followers of John Byrne. The question came up asking if you could you go back to Marvel and pencil for somebody else to…
Undervalued Spotlight #395
X-Men #108, Marvel Comics, December 1977. Earlier today I read Dennis DePues’ post on the great John Byrne coming to this year’s Fan Expo in Toronto. It got me thinking of a few Byrne I have on my potential future…
A Giant at Fan Expo Toronto!
Having grown up during the Silver Age of comics, many of my favorite artists have unfortunately passed away. So the announcements over the last few years for Fan Expo in Toronto, haven’t gotten that rush of adrenaline happening for me.…
Undervalued Spotlight #391
X-Men Vol. 2 #205, Marvel Comics, January 2008. I’ve been talking to some young, in the know fans at the shop and they are telling me that there is some building spec around the X-Men character Hope Summers. These conversations…
X-Men #9-16
Today we take a final look at the original X-Men team. I was always a fan of the early X-Men and was one of the disappointed fans with the cancellation /suspension of the title at issue # 66. The Silver…
Undervalued Spotlight #384
X-Men #12, Marvel Comics, July 1965. I lucked in and found nice copies of X-Men #1, 3, 4 and 6 recently and I was discussing prices to put on them with my pal Jay who’s really good at that kind…
Auction Highlights #99
Comic Link Focused Auction The higher end comic book portion of the massive ComicLink Focused Auction ended Wednesday October 10th. There were over 6,000 graded comics up on what I think is their biggest auction by volume to date? A…
Winning Collaborators 3: John Byrne and Terry Austin and Chris Claremont
The team of John Byrne and Terry Austin burst into comic consciousness in a big way with X-Men #108. They came in to finish off the Empress Lilandra and the Imperial Guard /Starjammers storyline and exploded in what was undoubtedly one of the…
Winning Collaborators 2
When I initially was planning to do this post, I was going to talk about one of the most revered winning collaborations out there, John Byrne and Terry Austin’s run on the X-men. Which culminated with the Dark Phoenix Saga. However when…
Arcs & Runs | #48: The Case For Issue #4
We are going to take Arcs & Runs in a slightly different direction this week and look at a Silver Age run of issue #4’s. Yes #4. I have listened to all the love and support for issue #2’s and…
Winning Collaborators
It cannot be underestimated how important the artistic team is on a comic book. It can make or break a title. The interesting thing is that over time (sometimes years) a title will go through wild swings in the life of…
Overvalued Overstreet | X-Men #8 & King Size Specials #1-2
We are venturing back to the X-Men title to shine the Overvalued spotlight on a seriously overvalued Top Ten issue and to attend to a little unfinished business on X-Men reprints. The books in the original X-Men title (#1-66) have…
Undervalued Spotlight #274
X-Men #109, Marvel Comics, February 1979 (Walt) – Mike Huddleston has a keen eye for undervalued comics. Case in point this gem he just sent in. Mike’s a great motivator too because now I have to try and top this…
Auction Highlights 91
Comic Link Fall Featured Auction The comic book portion of ComicLink’s Fall Featured Auction ended Wednesday December 2nd and there were definitely some interesting results. The CGC 6.5 Wonder Woman #1 emerged as the strongest comic in the lot finishing…
Undervalued Spotlight #268
X-Men #49, Marvel Comics, October 1968 An X-Men fan recently told me something I didn’t even realize. He noted that only one X-Men book has ever been featured on the Undervalued Spotlight (#88). This is obviously neglect on my part…