Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
During the 1990s The Tick from Ben Edlund and New England Comics was the hottest comic property going. The black and white comics were a smash success that led to an animated cartoon and a live action television series. Of…
I was a faithful fan of Dark Horse’s Conan relaunch with Cary Nord as artist but after he left I drifted away. Came across Conan: Cimmeria or Conan Volume 7, depending how you interpret the spine and title page of…
My Greatest Adventure #80, DC Comics, June 1963 This comic book has the perfect mix of history, controversy, age and quality to make it a must have. First off there is a bit of a dispute revolving around the creative…
Detective Comics #27, DC Comics, (May 1939) Graded by CGC at 7.0 with Off White pages sold for $492,937.00 (including the buyers premium) on Heritage Auctions on November 17th. Detective Comics #27 is considered by many to be the second…
I’m a big Mike Mignola fan, admiring his work since Marvel Fanfare. The Amazing Screw-On Head was a one shot comic published in 2002 but somehow I missed it so I was anxious to pick up The Amazing Screw-On Head…
I was perusing the new books at my local comic book shop and came across Siege: Embedded in softcover. I noticed it because Chris Samnee had done the art: he’s been making a name and is doing the art on…
This one was a long time coming from its original French issues. I picked up the first DC Humanoids imprint issue in 2004, but that cross publishing deal collapsed. Devil’s Due Publishing picked up the series and published it as…
Fantagraphics and Kim Thompson are back with another Jacques Tardi translated work: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Volume 1. Appearing in the early 1970s and published as single volumes in French around 1976, Adele Blanc-Sec has a cult following…
Doorway to Nightmare #1, DC Comics, February 1978 Nimue Inwudu is one very cool character! Inspired by the Sorceress Nimue of the Camelot legend the immortal Madame Xanadu reads Tarot cards, tells fortunes and delves into all things mystic and supernatural. She picked up the…
The Scorpion is an excellent European series from Enrico Marini and Stephen Desberg about a treasure hunter during the Renaissance. Cinebook has been publishing English translations for a few years now and recently shipped volume four: The Treasure Of The…
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #5, Dell Publishing, March 1942 The funny animal genre used to be a very important genre in the high end comic collectible market. Looking back at Overstreet Price Guide #14 (1984/85 with the Katy…
This book wins for longest title this year by a mile. Fire & Water: Bill Everett, The Sub-Mariner, And The Birth Of Marvel Comics is a biography of Bill Everett complete with lots and lots of art. Here’s the publisher’s…
Few people need an introduction to Frank Miller’s seminal take on Batman in his 1986 series Batman: The Dark Knight. It’s heralded as the birth of the modern comic, along with The Watchmen, and exposed a lot of people to comics…
During a flip through Previews a few months back I noticed a solicitation for The Marvel Art Of Joe Quesada: 240 pages dedicated to Quesada’s work at Marvel. Since all his early work that I enjoyed happened at DC with…
Marvel Team-Up #15, Marvel Comics, November 1973 A pick for Halloween. As far as Bronze Age Marvel characters go Ghost Rider was one of the better creations. Motorcycle stuntman Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephisto (Satan) in order to save…
The Cover: Obviously Sinestro has become tired of Hal Jordan being known as the playboy of the cosmic seas and is determined to upstage him. Sinestro has bound Hal to some kind of weird yellow table construct that looked like…
Dark Horse Presents #1, Dark Horse Comics, June July/1986 Back in February 1935 a guy named Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published a comic called New Fun Comics. New Fun contained funny animal stories and western stories that are of no real significance…
Boom! Studios has just released 7 Psychopaths trade paperback; this series completely slipped under the radar and I only spotted it because of Sean Phillips doing the art. Originally published by Delcourt in French three years ago in that large…
Twilight Zone #84, Gold Key, June 1978 There are many collecting strains within the comic book collecting hobby. First appearances, first issues, publishers, titles, battle covers, love triangle covers, risqué covers, comics mentioned in SOTI, variant prices on covers, variant…
Amazing Spider-Man #1 I was rummaging through a bunch eBay auctions when I came across some interesting activity around Amazing Spider-Man #1. Amazing Spider-Man #1, Marvel Comics (March, 1963) Graded by CGC at 2.5 with Off White to White pages…