Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Free Comic Book Day 2013 was, by all accounts, a great success. I ran a free barbeque for my local comic shop and it was busy, very busy. Diamond recently published an article on their retailer site about the numbers.…
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! DATELINE: MIDDLETOWN,…
Marvel Team-Up Annual #1, Marvel Comics, (December 1976) Here we have the 1st new X-Men team appearance outside the X-Men title. Better yet they make this appearance in a great little title called Marvel Team-Up, a Spider-Man title. Correct me…
As you know I am a huge collector of action figures. My collection is pretty extensive when you take into consideration all of my G.I. Joe, Marvel Universe/Select/Legends, DC Figures and any other cool stuff that catches my fancy. Recently…
Crash 3! by Dennis de Pues continues exclusively on comicbookdaily.com If you enjoy this storyline, we are proud to announce that Crash!!1 and Crash!!2 are now available for Digital Download in our CBD Store.
Alastair Stirling, roboticist and AI inventor wakes up. Which is amazing considering he died sixteen years earlier. Al dreams of more for robots, how advanced, how life-like they can be. Then he wakes to find he is one. What’s more, he’s…
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! DATELINE:…
Auction Highlights #77, Comic Link May Featured Auction The Comic Link Featured Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday May 21st and Wednesday May 23rd. This was a good auction with a nice mix of books. The…
Yesterday marked 1 year and 6 months since my Undervalued Spotlight #103 post. In that post I put the spotlight on Maple Leaf Publishing’s Better Comics #1 and talked about the importance and the scarcity of the book. I remember…
Came across an interview with Fantagraphics co-founder and co-publisher Gary Groth about their publishing efforts. This quote got me thinking. “One of the things we try to do with most of our books is to create beautiful objects. I think that…
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija welcome back show producer Shekky Feldstien. Shekky was AWOL for a month but does a great job diving back in. The gang discuss all the talent leaving DC Comics lately,…
Here’s the latest extended trailer from The Wolverine, coming to theatres July 26th 2013. [youtube ] Plus, here’s the Silver Samurai teaser movie poster.
This weekend is the MCM London ComicCon and I’ve (once again) managed to score myself an invitation… which I’ll be putting to good use on both days. With no Kapow! this year, this really is the best opportunity…
Please also check out our series So You Wanna Open A Comic Shop. Have you ever thought of owning your own comic book shop? The notion crossed my mind years and years ago, when my local comic book shop closed…
Crash 3! by Dennis de Pues continues exclusively on comicbookdaily.com If you enjoy this storyline, we are proud to announce that Crash!!1 and Crash!!2 are now available for Digital Download in our CBD Store.
Back in the day the only way fans could connect with their favourite comic book artist or writer was to go to a comic con or store signing. And, if that specific artist or writer wasn’t coming to your area…
The quality of the artwork in the Canadian WECA books has often received unwarranted malignment for its primitive, almost amateur quality. Though it’s true that this was sometimes the case for the fledgling comic book industry of the early forties,…
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss the 4 titles DC Comics is cancelling, the record run of Iron Man 3 at the movies, Laura Vandervoort being cast as the voice of the Blue Fox on…