Week 5: Freestyling
No theme this week, I’m free styling and I like the result. Darwyn Cooke was a breath of fresh air, his New Frontier art knocked everybody’s socks off but I’ve always liked his work on The Spirit, a beautiful homage…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Category Championing Comics
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Week 4: Being Frank
So this whole post started off innocently enough, I liked this Frank Brunner splash and this Frank Cho splash so I thought I’d add one or two more Franks’s and give it a cute name like Being Frank. Whoa! There…
New Column Update
Next Monday, January the 27th I start my new weekly column on comic book collecting. I was really hoping to have the working title ready to announce this week but I’ve failed miserably. I have several working titles but have…
Week 3: Steranko Squared
Grading comics allowed for the large and vibrant vintage comic market to expand exponentially. Gone was the worry of missing pages, of undetected restoration, of missed cropping and of buying over graded books. All this had come at a cost…
Week 2: Wood's Doom
Grading comics allowed for the large and vibrant vintage comic market to expand exponentially. Gone was the worry of missing pages, of undetected restoration, of missed cropping and of buying over graded books. All this had come at a cost…
Week 1: Trees
Grading comics allowed for the large and vibrant vintage comic market to expand exponentially. Gone was the worry of missing pages, of undetected restoration, of missed cropping and of buying over graded books. All this had come at a cost…
Covered 365: Day 365
Detective Comics #365, DC Comics, July 1967. Artist: Carmine Infantino. 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. We’re a stubborn lot I…
Covered 365: Day 364
Adventure Comics #364, DC Comics, January 1968. Artist: Curt Swan. 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. I’m going light today because…
Covered 365: Day 363
Avengers #363, Marvel Comics, June 1993. Artist: Steve Epting. 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. What a great day for covers!…
Covered 365: Day 362
Detective Comics #362, DC Comics, April 1967. Artist: Carmine Infantino. 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 There were some good covers…
Covered 365: Day 361
Amazing Spider-Man #361, Marvel Comics, April 1992. Artist: Mark Bagley. 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 Mark Bagley’s cover to Amazing…
Covered 365: Day 360
Uncanny X-Men #360, Marvel Comics, October 1998. Artist: Jae Lee. 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. Jae Lee’s cover to X-Men…
Covered 365: Day 359
Incredible Hulk #359, Marvel Comics, September 1989. Artist: John Byrne. 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. Battle Royale from John Byrne…
Covered 365: Day 358
Daredevil #358, Marvel Comics, November 1996. Artist: Steve Epting. 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. Quality is so refreshing when you’ve…
Covered 365: Day 357
Batman #357, DC Comics, March 1983. Artist: Ed Hannigan. 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. I think Ed Hannigan’s cover to…
Covered 365: Day 356
Captain America #356, Marvel Comics, August 1989. Artist: Al Milgrom. 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. Al Milgrom’s cover to Captain…
Covered 365: Day 355
Four Color #355, Dell Comics, November 1951. Artist: Ralph Heimdahl. 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. Ten to go after this…
Covered 365: Day 354
Legion of Super-Heroes #354, DC Comics, December 1987. Artist: Ron Frenz. 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. Today I get to…
Covered 365: 353
Batman #353, DC Comics, November 1982. Artist: José Luis García-López. 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 353 was a better…
Covered 365: Day 352
Daredevil #352, Marvel Comics, May 1986. Artist: Shawn McManus. 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. I’m gonna go out and say…