Sid Barron
Sid Arnold Barron was born in Toronto on June 13, 1917 and from his obituary written by Tom Hawthorn for the Globe and Mail in 2006 (he died on April 29 in Victoria) we learn that he was an…
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #43
The 43rd edition of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide has just hit the stands and I couldn’t be more excited. No comic book collector that calls him or herself a comic book collector should be without a guide. It’s essential…
Undervalued Spotlight #164
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #4 and #5, Marvel Comics, September and October 1968 This week I’m happy to have a guest Undervalued Spotlight contributor. Our good friend Mike Huddleston has submitted not one but two comics for our pleasure.…
Hakes Americana & Collectibles Auction 209
I haven’t been following the auctions at Hakes Americana & Collectibles because I find their categories confusing. Their recent Auction #209 – Part II that ended August 25th had a good haul of original comic and comic strip art, enough…
Mel Crawford
Mel Crawford was born in Toronto in 1925. His parents divorced when he was four and he went with his mother and her parents to Drumheller, Alberta for a few years and then they all moved onto Oklahoma to live…
Review | Clockwerx
Giant steampunk robots terrorizing London: what's not to like?
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Review | Conan Vol 14: The Death
An intimate look at Conan and his relationship with Bêlit, queen of the black coast.
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The Age of Ultron is Upon Us!
On Saturday, Marvel announced the sequel to their smash-hit Avengers will be titled Avengers: Age of Ultron. Plot details remain scarce. Who created Ultron in the Marvel cinematic universe? Will Hank Pym be in the movie? Will we see Vision? What’s interesting…
Jack “Crash Carson” Tremblay
I’d like to take a small respite from this small blog for a few weeks to work on a couple of other things. I plan to post the short columns I did for Leif Peng and his Daily Inspiration blog…
Top 20?
I was talking with Walter Durajlija the other day about doing an entry on the WECA keys and he suggested a good task might be to start to create a list of the top twenty WECA (1941-46) books much…
Winner! Gagnon!
One aspect of the WECA comics (1941-46) that truly made them Canadian was the great effort they went to in order to engage their readers. One of these central ways was the almost monthly implementation of contests right from the…
Review | The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward
A tale of intrigue, mystery and the macabre, H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward is masterfully adapted by I.N.J. Culbard into a compelling read. Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the…
Auction Highlights #78
Auction Highlights #78, Comic Link June Focused Auction The Silver/Bronze portion of the Comic Link Focused Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday June 26th and Wednesday June 27th. Relatively weak auction this time around, we basically…
The Big Book
In the last couple of days I’ve been thinking about what the world of WECA comics (Canadian Whites) really needs and, besides the searchable index/data base and a price guide, what I think that this area really needs is a…
Undervalued Spotlight #163
EH! #4, Charlton Comics, June 1954 One of the most important factors that make a comic collectible is the cover. Of course the character is the primary factor in determining collectability and it’s followed by a plethora of other factors,…
Market Trends
Splash page from Batman #1 gets $660 on eBay. Details here. I got an email from a friend about this. My buddy thought this was crazy but I’m going to try to look at it from a different perspective. This…
Texting Murray Karn
On Saturday, August 25, among many other winners, three Canadian comics creators will be inducted into the Hall of Fame category: Katherine Collins (Arn Saba) from more recent decades and Vernon Miller and Murray Karn from earliest days of Canadian…
Undervalued Spotlight #162
Fantastic Four #45, Marvel Comics (December 1965) The Fantastic Four is easily the most important of the original slew of Marvel titles. Most of the time we focus on the importance of FF#1 and how it changed everything. While Fantastic…
Canadian Comic Panel
Just wanted to do a quick report on the Canadian Comics panel that we held at Niagara Con this past Saturday (June 8). The panel was comprised of Hope Nicholson (producer for the upcoming “Lost Heroes” documentary which will air…
Tom Laing 1949-2013
On Monday May 27th 2013 Tom Laing passed away. That name might not right a bell right away, but he was the owner of Comic 1 Books in Stoney Creek Ontario. I don’t think I ever knew his last name…