Auction Highlights #27 – Very Good
Let’s see how the market is treating some nice but lower grade comic books
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Sleepy Censors #9
This comic has become a cult classic. The “Pearl Necklace” issue always sells for multiples of guide at the conventions and on
Collecting and Investing Tip #27
Convention Tip #5. There are places though where cash is still king and a comic book convention is one of those...
Undervalued Spotlight #27
Is this book the true start of the Silver Age? Is this book the catalyst that leads to the creation of the Fantastic Four?
Sleepy Censor #8
DC used many sexually provocative covers during this era, especially on titles starring female characters...
Auction Highlights # Detecitve 27
The final price settled at $1,075,000.00 which technically is less than the Action #1 since there was a...
Collecting and Investing Tip #26
Convention Tip #4. Choose who you are going to the convention with wisely, based on your goals. I work the dealer side of the convention booth and its incredible the amount of stressful situations I’ve witnessed over the years
Superman Makes History – Again
We all knew it was only a matter of time and on Monday February 22nd it finally happened
Undervalued Spotlight #26
...features the first appearance of Doctor Strange and is considered a Marvel key...
Auction Highlights #26
Today I’ll review some Bronze Age results; over the past 2 days we reviewed some Golden Age results and some Silver Age results
Crazy Comic Covers: Lois Lane #44 "Superman's Surprise Choice"
The Cover: Looks like we have Superman strapped to some kind of crazy love meter that will determine who he loves more; Lois Lane or Lana Lang. Of course, Superman doesn’t know that it’s a love meter and has been…
Auction Highlights #25
I’ll review some Silver Age results; tomorrow I’ll go over some Bronze Age highlights
Why are we thinking about this? #2
Time for another installment of Why are we thinking of this? Where we look at some of the bizarre things we can think about for comic book characters. Does Superman pass gas in a super-way? Everything about Superman is super…
Sleepy Censor #7
Though officially listed as Rich Buckler art, most of this comic was actually drawn by Canadian Vince Marchesano
Auction Highlights #24
Actually I thought a lot of the results were strong and I’ll go on record as saying that we needed the brakes to come on a bit
Collecting and Investing Tips #25
Convention Tip #3. Haggling is not for the squeamish. It takes a certain type to do it well but in reality anyone can be a good haggler if a few simple rules are followed
Undervalued Spotlight #25
The Scorpion #1, published in February 1975 featured a great bondage cover and interior art and story by Howard Chaykin. The Scorpion #2, May 1975, featured Chaykin pencils with a stellar inking team of Mike Kaluta, Bernie Wrightson, Walt Simonson and Ed Davis
Sleepy Censor #6
Though not a comic book we just had to include this issue in our Sleepy Censor segment
Crazy Comic Cover: Flash #319 "A slight touch of death!"
The Cover: Well, The Flash simply seems to be killing someone with his super-speed. How? I got no clue how the Flash is killing this guy, all I can see is that his clothes seem to be flying off. So…
Batman Beats Superman (in an Auction based situation)
Looks like all Batman needed was preparation time to finally defeat Superman, at least when it comes to dollars earned. A rare copy of the first Batman comic book has surpassed the previous comic book record price, $317,000, paid for…