Undervalued Spotlight #180
Marvel Value Stamp Book Series A, Marvel Comics, Spring 1974 I’ve always been able to talk myself out of doing this post. Obviously I’ve caught myself at a weak moment. Perhaps its fitting though that I pull my 1-80 on…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Review | Loud Comix #1
Four stories written by four punk rockers and drawn by another one. What's not to like?
Death of the Family… bring your wallet!
The Death of the Family storyline crossed over into Batman, Detective Comics, Batman and Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Catwoman, Teen Titans, Suicide Squad and Red Hood and the Outlaws. Each title had their star "Bat-Characters" match wits against the evil and diabolical Joker, whose ultimate plan was to get rid of Batman's allies, who in Joker's mind were weakening the Dark Knight and keeping him from being the hero that Gotham (and the Joker) desperately needs.
TrekWARS 7
TrekWARS webisode 7.
Web Arted Nov 29th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Happy Thanksgiving Neighbours!
A hearty greeting to our neighbours to the south on their Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy this classic Winsor McCay strip from 1905: apparently humour was vastly different 108 years ago.
Comic Culture November 27th 2013
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter “Slurpy Jones” Durajlija are joined by producer Shekky Feldstein and sound engineer Andrew “Young Buck” Roebuck for an hour of comic culture banter. The boys cover all kinds of stuff including…
Masked Marvels
One great result of having a forum to make posts about WECA comics is that the readers can make corrections and cleanups of what I’ve written as well as offer new information that can fill in essential blanks, see my post from two weeks ago for example. Here are a couple more “blanks” for you all.
You Want 2nds? Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe #2
Hi folks, welcome to ARCHIE G’s. I’m your waiter, Raoul. Here at ARCHIE G’s, we don’t think you can make a dependable Pull List decision based on the first serving of a comic. Publishers throw everything they’ve got at a…
Beep Beep & Beep Beep Yeah!
Now my Mom and Dad knew I had ordered some comics by mail order and weren't too pleased about it. They thought I spent $20, when in actuality I had spent $200 or so in US funds.
The package was about 10 inches high and had been strapped together between cardboard and wrapped again in brown wrapping paper. The corners were somewhat torn and slightly blunted but the contents were intact.
Undervalued Spotlight #179
Avengers #263, Marvel Comics, January 1986 Quick trivia question. What comic featured the 1st appearance of the X-Factor? Well, if you said 1963’s X-Men #1 you wouldn’t be wrong. Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Iceman all indeed made up the…
Heritage 2013 Nov 21-23 Auction Beverly Hills
Another high profile Heritage auction ended over the weekend in Beverly Hills, with a large selection of original art going for record prices. No iconic pieces this time around but an excellent collection of material ranging from Alex Raymond Jungle Jim to Wizard Spider-Man.
All New! Same Old!
We have been living in the age of Marvel Now! for almost two years now. On the whole, Marvel Now! has been pretty successful. There have been some great books come out under the Marvel Now! banner. Most notably those have been Thor: God of Thunder, Indestructible Hulk, and Iron Man. These titles have changed the status-quo for the characters, and have been very entertaining comic books.
TrekWARS 6
TrekWARS webispode 6.
Web Arted Nov 22nd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Auction Highlight #81
Heritage Auctions A very solid Heritage Auctions session ended on Wednesday November 21st with some very strong results. I took a keen interest in the CGC 9.6 Strange Tales #110. This book is being heavily speculated on at the moment and I…
Getting Back Into The Game
But, as luck would have it, I am more familiar with Men of Steel than muscle-bound posteriors so I find my family and friends asking me what I thought of the latest Thor movie (loved it), or whether or not I bought Superman stamps (of course). There is one other question that actually comes up quite often: how do I get back into comics?
Comic Culture November 20th 2013
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Slurpy Jones are joined by producer Shekky Feldstein and sound engineer Andrew “Young Buck” Roebuck for an hour of cutting edge comic book talk. The boys cover all kinds of stuff including…
Review | Marada The She-Wolf
A complete collection of Claremont and Bolton's run from Epic Illustrated, Marada The She-Wolf is a gripping sword-and-sorcery tale.
Lazare: The Orphan Strips
Some of the most interesting Lazare creations are the orphan “left-overs,” those stories that were one-shot “try-outs” or “fillers” and there were eight of these. The first three were in consecutive issues of Triumph Comics Nos. 20-22 which is a Bell title for which Lazare never did a feature character.
“We couldn’t figure how to get a suit to come out of a ring”
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! Hotter than Cat Grant. He is…BIFF SOCKO!