Undervalued Spotlight #424
Marvel Team-Up #62, Marvel Comics, October 1977. I’ve been spending waaay too much money buying gifts lately to even think about picking a big expensive book this week so I’d like to keep it light and fun AND leave Santa…
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Undervalued Spotlight #423
Detective Comics #153, DC Comics, November 1949. I was sorting through a pile of old Golden Age a while back and came across a rat chewed Detective Comics that for some reason made me do a double-take. It honestly took…
Is the new Dan Dare Complete Collection worth the upgrade?
Titan has had a solid run of Dare Dare hardcover collections: fifteen to date over the last fourteen years. Dan Dare Complete Collection: The Venus Campaign was released this month, collecting the first three Dan Dare collections. The big selling…
Undervalued Spotlight #422
Yellow Claw #1, Atlas Comics, October 1956. News came out this week of some potential movie plans for Shang-Chi the Master of Kung Fu so I tried to pick a book that could benefit from this. I didn’t want to…
First FECA Book
By now, a lot more of us know that there were two eras to the Canadian Golden Age of comics. In the U.S., the measure of the Golden Age extends from Action 1 in 1938 to about Showcase 3 in…
Undervalued Spotlight #421
Captain America Annual #8, Marvel Comics, September 1986. The Copper Age is full of books that are still easily accessible, that can still deliver great value and that still have strong potential. It’s been a while since we did a…
Undervalued Spotlight #420
Strange Adventure #9, DC Comics, June 1951. A friend of mine recently sent me pics of a very cool book he’d just picked up. It was a solid mid-grade copy of a book I used to have and it made…
Review | Empress Charlotte Vol. 1: The Princess and the Archduke
At sixteen, Princess Charlotte falls in love with an Austrian archduke, Maximilian of the House of Habsburg. Soon enough, she finds herself enmeshed in the cruel and unpredictable world of international diplomacy as her marriage founders. Increasingly shrewd, naïveté and…
Undervalued Spotlight #419
Fantastic Four #10, Marvel Comics, January 1963. Stan Lee passed away yesterday, Monday, November 12th, 2018. My condolences to Mr. Lee’s family and friends. I’ll always remember where I was when I heard of Stan Lee’s death, I’ll also remember the…
Review | Sword Master
It’s 1537. Deep in the lost mountains of Jura, a group of fanatical Catholic mountain people track a young Protestant and his guide. Big mistake. The latter is no other than the ex master-at-arms of Francois I, Hans Stalhoffer. After…
Undervalued Spotlight #418
Two-Fisted Tales #35, EC Comics, October 1953. Sometimes the weirdest things lead me to a spotlight pick. I’ll often try to think of a good pick for the moment, be it a Valentine-themed pick or a Christmas-themed one, I’ve even…
October Comic Link Auction
The Comic Link auctions have been, perhaps, the primary source for obtaining Canadian wartime comics (WECA comics) over the last half-dozen years. 2017 offered up a comparative glut of these hard-to-find books with just over 180 of them being made…
Undervalued Spotlight #417
Adventures of the Fly #4, Archie Publications, January 1960. This week I’m turning things over to 1st time guest Spotlight writer Steven. Steven has been supporting the Spotlight for a while now and was kind enough to send me a…
Overvalued Overstreet | Amazing Spider-Man #23
Today I am shining the Overvalued Overstreet spotlight on one of my favourite Amazing Spider-Man Ditko covers, and the Green Goblin’s third appearance. It is an early Spider-Man; however, Overstreet does have this book overvalued to the current market. Let’s…
Undervalued Spotlight #416
Sub-Mariner #13, Timely Comics, Spring 1944. On a recent post convention dinner we were debating what the best covers of each “age” were. For this Spotlight post we’ll focus on our “Golden Age” argument. Some great books were put forth…
New York Comics Shops and Big Books
Last week I was in New York, New York for our annual family vacation getaway. And since we were in the big city I took the time to visit a few Manhattan comic shops. In reality that meant Forbidden Planet…
Undervalued Spotlight #415
DC 100 Super Spectacular #4 Weird Mystery Tales, DC Comics, 1971. In today’s Undervalued Spotlight we go back in time to Bronze Age big comics, I mean 100 pages big, and the very beginning of DC’s 100-page comic era that…
Undervalued Spotlight #414
Kingdom Come #1, DC Comics, May 1996. I was set up at the Tri-City Super Con in Kitchener Ontario this past weekend and as part of our set up we were selling some graphic novels. It was after one particular…
Undervalued Spotlight #413
Amazing Spider-Man #134, Marvel Comics, July 1974. We’ve had some heavy hitters up the last 5 or 6 weeks so I think we’ll take it easy on the pocketbook this week and pick a cool, fun book that’s affordable. Cool,…
The Crusaders
Let me put forward an analogy that, I think, sort of explains the nature of the four main Canadian WECA comic book publishers. If you remember, these four are Anglo-American and Bell Features—both based in Toronto, Maple Leaf Publishing based…