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Last week a picture of Anne Hathaway’s costume was posted on our Facebook page. The question was asked “What do you think?” When I saw the picture, I wasn’t blown away by it (even though Anne Hathaway is beautiful). It…
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Sorry, this poster is classified
So I was looking at the latest Previews and saw this picture in the Marvel section: I can understand not wanting to give away too much of a key plot point or whatever but how is any customer supposed to…
Margaret Atwood: cartoonist?
The National Post has an excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. It’s a great piece on comic strips, imagination and where that takes us. Perhaps if Atwood had kept up the drawing Seth and…
Undervalued Spotlight #98
Brave and the Bold #79, DC Comics, August/September 1968 Neal Adams knew something was wrong with Batman even during the absolute height of the character’s popularity. In a panel at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con (with excerpts reprinted in…
How far would you go?
I don’t know if you’ve seen this elsewhere yet, but this article really struck a chord with me. Reuters had a story about Herbert Chavez, a Filipino designer who is a huge Superman fan. He’s had body modifying surgery to…
My Money is on Spidey!
Our shop sells a good amount of vintage comics. Sales seem to be concentrated at the comic conventions but the odd sale here and the odd sale there at the shop do add up to a respectable figure by the…
Daredevil #118
Apparently there was not a single dictionary at the Marvel office in 1975. That is the only reason I can think of for suggesting that circus spelled sideways is death. Also, is that guy throwing live bats as if they…
Spider-Island
Has anybody noticed that in the middle of the unstoppable juggernaut of publicity that is the new DC#1s or the ubiquitous Fear Itself tie-in fest, there is a really good little Spider-Man story going on? Spider-Island is being done exactly…
Comic Link’s November
I just received an email from ComicLink highlighting their inclusion of a CGC 9.9 copy of Iron Man #1 for their November auction. Wow, now that is an impressive book. I jumped on their site to read up on the…
Undervalued Spotlight #97
Alpha Flight #106, Marvel Comics, March 1992. The history of comic books could easily serve as a rich resource for any anthropologist. Studying comic book history can shed light on the behavior, the social and cultural development of humans in…
Auction Highlights #57
ComicLink September 2011 Focused Auction The ComicLink Focused Auction ended last week. I cannot remember a more Marvel heavy auction! Of the top 33 comics only 1 DC cracked the Marvel dominance. DC’s Green Lantern #76 graded a CGC 9.6…
Lone Wolf & Cub Retailer Incentive
Lone Wolf and Cub is a wonderful manga series that has come to North America twice: prestige format comics from First Publishing in the 1980s and in twenty eight 4.25×6.5″ softcover volumes from Dark Horse. For anyone who hasn’t sampled…
Undervalued Spotlight #96
Batman #139, DC Comics, April 1961 I’ve honestly had this book on my “future undervalued’ file for at least 6 months and have just never pulled the trigger and posted it. In light of the new Batgirl #1 comic released…
Can New Comics be Long Term Collectibles?
It’s been busy in the shop today, really busy. I have never seen so many people buy “one of each”. There were 13 new DC #1s today (the 1st wave of this month’s 52 new titles basically re-launching the whole…
Web of Spider-Man #7
This is actually one of my favourite covers, but it doesn’t really make sense. Normally when people talk about cancelling Christmas it is because the have no money, or some disaster has befallen them around December, or they are using…
Undervalued Spotlight #95
Police Comics #1, Quality Comics, August 1941 This is a great Golden Age key that just does not get the respect it deserves. Thanks to DC’s acquisition of many of the Quality characters back in 1956 most of the characters…
Fixing CGC Grading
Now I have no idea what it says in the CGC grading manual so this will be my opinion only, totally based on me having absolutely no facts! All I will go on is the many discrepancies in grade I’ve…
Marvel Team-Up #11
The most long-awaited battle? Not true then. Not true now.
Undervalued Spotlight #94
My Love #14, Marvel Comics, November 1971 This is a bit of a deviation from my standard Undervalued Spotlight format. I’m featuring Marvel’s entire November 1971 line up using the worthy My Love #14 as the ambassador book. I’ve chosen…
Undervalued Spotlight #93
Blue Beetle #1, Charlton Comics, June 1967 Steve Ditko is one of the true giants of comic books. Ditko’s two major contributions, co-created with Stan Lee, were Dr. Strange and the Amazing Spiderman. In subsequent interviews Ditko has downplayed Lee’s…