Sesquicentennial
Happy Sesqui-seventeen to everyone and may it turn out the best that it can for all of you. I’ve been trying to think about how our hobby and industry could make some sort of positive and relevant contribution to this…
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Undervalued Spotlight #324
Journey into Mystery Annual #1, Marvel Comics, 1965 Marvel Comics certainly had a “way” with adapting fictional characters and making those characters their own. I can’t think of a bigger or better example than the Mighty Thor, introduced in Journey…
Our Army At War #83
It seems a little odd writing about war comics in the middle of the most festive time of the year. It is this time of year however when I think about war the most. The sacrifices that others have made…
Undervalued Spotlight #323
Blackhawk #117, DC Comics, October 1957 This week’s Spotlight came to me while I was trying to convince the owner of a large Batman collection to sell, or at least trade his books to me. He’s looking for a Spider-Man…
Undervalued Spotlight Index 201-300
For your collecting and investing reference, here is a complete listing of the third one hundred Undervalued Spotlights presented here on Comic Book Daily. Click the number to go to the post. Also see 1-100, 101-200, and 301-400. # Title, Publisher, Date Of…
Undervalued Spotlight #322
Comico Christmas Special #1, Comico, December 1988 The Christmas edition of the Undervalued Spotlight shines its festive light on the Comico Christmas Special of 1988. Talk about a gift that keeps on giving. Ho Ho Ho! Let’s start with a…
Undervalued Spotlight #321
Power Comics #1, Power Comics, 1977 (January? – a reprint of #1 exists dated March 1977) A seemingly random sequence of events led me to this week’s Spotlight. I’ll try not to bore you with the timeline but I have…
Auction Highlights #97
Comic Link Fall Featured Auction The comic book portion of the ComicLink Fall Featured Auction ended Thursday December 8th. I’m really enjoying these CLINK auctions. The selection is great from every era! Tops of keys, tons of high grade, tons…
Overvalued Overstreet | Daredevil 7
Daredevil #7, Marvel Comics, April 1965. I can’t tell you how many times lower to mid grade copies of this book has queued up in my back issue bins over the years. Mind you I don’t think I have a copy at this moment but I think that’s due more to “aggressive discounting” than it is to rampant demand. The problem all along must have been an overvalued Overstreet value.
Undervalued Spotlight #320
Amazing Spider-Man #3, Marvel, July 1963. Every now and again I’m lucky enough to have Mike Huddleston come to the shop for a nice visit. I’m not sure what I enjoy more, catching up with Mike or the coffee and…
Undervalued Spotlight #319
Superman #4, DC Comics, Spring 1940 Looking back I can see that I haven’t had the best relationship with the Superman title. I’ve always thought the value of Superman #1 to be inflated versus say Batman #1 and maybe that’s…
Undervalued Spotlight #318
Avengers #142, Marvel Comics, December 1975 Huh? I just picked up a nice pile of Avengers and something drew me to this issue. It got me thinking… The superhero genre long ago emerged as the dominant genre in comic books.…
Undervalued Spotlight #317
Daredevil Vol. 2 #26, Marvel Comics, December 2001 Last week the Spotlight featured a great post from 1st time guest writer Readcomix. One of the comments left on his post was that his pick was too difficult to find. At least…
Review | Absolute Batman: Year One
ABSOLUTE BATMAN: YEAR ONE presents one of DC Comics’ most lauded tales in two hardcover volumes contained by a slipcase. The first volume will reprint the recolored version of the story from previous collected editions, remastered with new, high-resolution scans…
Overvalued Overstreet | Not Brand Echh 1-13
It took a while, but I finally have come to my most disliked Marvel title of all time – Not Brand Echh. Issue #1 of Not Brand Echh has already been covered in Walt’s Undervalued Spotlight #85 way back on…
Undervalued Spotlight #316
Pep Comics #26, MLJ Magazines, April 1942 It’s such a pleasure to introduce Gene Lomoriello as this week’s guest Spotlight writer. Let’s hope this is the 1st of many from Mr. Lomoriello. Gene has been commenting on the site as…
More ComicLink WECA Results
This largest ever offered collection of WECA comics keeps on rolling out from out of the Land Beyond the Mists (we may never find out the source of this collection because Jon Signorelli tells me that the owner wants to…
Undervalued Spotlight #315
Strange Tales #118, Marvel Comics, March 1964 I’m actually very excited about the Doc Strange movie that’s about to open up in North American theatres this coming weekend. I’ve seen the clips and I’ve read the reviews, now to see…
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 #314
All-American Comics #90, DC Comics, October 1947 I mentioned I thought I was on to something a few weeks back in Spotlight #308. In that Spotlight I wrote that I noticed a trend towards what I called “nouveau iconic” Golden…