Auction Highlights #61
ComicLink’s January Focused Auction. This is my first Auction Highlight of 2012 and I think it’s a good time to try to take stock of the market, to see where some of the most heavily traded “blue chip” comic books…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Walter Durajlija
Walter Durajlija is an Overstreet Advisor and Shuster Award winner. He owns Big B Comics in Hamilton Ontario.
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Undervalued Spotlight #110
Tales from the Tomb #1 (02-810-210), Dell Publishing, October 1962 About a month ago I bought a collection of rough shaped old comics. The pile was mostly Charlton War, DC non hero and a hodgepodge of Dells. Hum hum stuff…
Comic Culture Jan 18th
This week join our hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija as they cover this week’s new comic releases and discuss a wide variety of topics including the Powers TV series, a James Bond reunion, Abe Lincoln fighting Vampires, Tintin winning…
Diamond Hires Chris Powell
Diamond Comic Distributors, the sole distributor of comic books to the specialty comic market, last week hired Chris Powell as Executive Director of Business Development for the comic book specialty market. Chris Powell comes to Diamond from Lone Star Comics…
Comic Sales Data for 2011
So the 2011 yearly totals are in and I thought I’d pass along some data. Marvel was both the unit share winner for the year and the dollar value winner. I’ve included the top 10 publishers below. Publisher Fantagraphics finished…
Comic Culture Jan 11th
This week’s show is a continuation of Comic Culture’s New Year’s Special. Join our jolly hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija as they discuss the big blockbuster comic book movies coming out in 2012, December comic book sales, the new…
Marvel is Tops!
Marvel Comics climbed its way back to the top of the comic book heap. The House of Ideas led the market in December, narrowly edging DC Entertainment in both the Retail Dollar (34.43% for Marvel vs. 33.74% for DC) and…
Undervalued Spotlight #109
Doctor Who and the Daleks (Movie Classic #12-190-612), Dell Publishing, December 1966 Here’s another submission from Undervalued Spotlight stalwart Mike Huddleston. Mike sure knows how to pick winners and this week’s submission is no exception, it’s another keeper. Mike was…
Comic Culture Jan 3rd
Happy New Year everyone! This week’s show is Comic Culture’s New Year’s Special. Join our hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija as they discuss the year that was 2011. The guys also tackle new and exciting stuff due out in…
Undervalued Spotlight #108
G.I. Joe, A real American Hero #21, Marvel Comics, March 1984 It seems that I keep neglecting the 1980s! My last 80s post was over 20 Spotlights ago!! The 80s are a much maligned decade when it comes to collectible…
Undervalued Spotlight #107
Tarzan #25, Dell Comics, October 1951 There’s a nice copy of Tarzan #25 sitting in my comic collection! About 15 years ago I bought a collection of Gold Key comics from the late 60s and early 70s and in the…
Comic Culture Dec 21st
This week’s show is Comic Culture’s Christmas Special. Join our jolly hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija as they discuss TV Christmas Specials, all the comic book movie trailers hitting the net, Marvel’s new prose line, Hasbro’s declining sales, the…
Comic Culture Dec 14th
This week’s show has hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss Amazon’s attack on brick and mortar shops, Amazing Fantasy #15 possibly being a bad investment, the passing of Jerry Robinson, great Spider-Man writers of the past, the whole J.…
Undervalued Spotlight #106
Pep Comics #36, MLJ Magazines, February 1942 This is the 3rd time I’ve chosen a Pep Comic. Undervalued Spotlights #81 and #5 both featured great Pep issues and Pep #36 belongs right up there with them as far as I’m…
Bad Investment?
Last month quietly, without fanfare a second CGC 9.6 Amazing Fantasy #15 appeared on the CGC Census (CGC is of course the company that grades the comics out of 10, they keep a census on their website). What made this…
November Sales Up
Diamond Comic Distributors released their November numbers for comic book and graphic novel sales. Marvel rebounded from the trouncing DC Comics gave them back in October, the two giant comic publishers are now neck and neck both in unit share and dollar share.
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Dennis DePues, Galloway Park
Walter Durajlija sits down with Galloway Park's Dennis DePues.
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Auction Highlights #60
ComicConnect December 2011 Event Auction The big ComicConnect.com Event auction has ended. This auction gained worldwide attention thanks to the the coup of having a CGC graded 9.0 copy of Action Comics #1 up for grabs. My post on the…
Undervalued Spotlight #105
Avengers #8, Marvel Comics, September 1964 For this spotlight I though I’d go through the Avengers title and try to pick out a sleeper that no one seems to be focusing on. With the Avengers movie releasing next May a…
Broadway Success for Spidey?
Chris Owen and I have been pumping up Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark for well over a year on our weekly Comic Culture podcast. It looks like our media hype is starting to pay off as the show now seems…