Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Christmas is just a week away and the eye-of-the-storm peacefulness and sentiment of the coming Christmas eve and Christmas day, rather than its stressful bustle and rabid commerce, begin to rope me in. This holiday season, I’ve been wistfully thinking…
Captain America #351, Marvel Comics, March 1989. Artist: Kieron Dwyer. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. I had the Hulk as…
Apologies folks, I caught something bad, not sure if I can get one up tomorrow, I’ll see how I feel. These things take time and energy. Anybody brave enough to submit just one Spotlight candidate for today? No argument needed.…
Batman #350, DC Comics, August 1982. Artist: Gene Colan. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Here we are Day 350 and…
Captain America #34, Marvel Comics, January 1989. Artist: Ron Frenz. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. I found day 349 to…
Captain America #347, Marvel Comics, November 1988. Artist: Ron Frenz. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Steve Epting gives me an…
Captain America #347, Marvel Comics, November 1988. Artist: Ron Frenz. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. I’m seeing a Steranko/Kirby mashup…
Thor #346, Marvel Comics, August 1984. Artist: Walt Simonson. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. There were only 24 covers to…
Batman #345, DC Comics, March 1982. Artist: Gene Colan. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Only 20 more sleeps ’til the…
Four Color #344, Dell Comics, August 1951, Artist: Morris Gollub. Day #344 gave us two quality covers and this far in I’ll take that as a good day. Morris Gollub’s intense cover to Four Color #344 wins hands down! The…
Incredible Hulk #104, Marvel Comics, June 1968. I had a little run of Hulk’s come in last week and there were some nice tight copies in the 110s and 120s to admire, these were stunning copies and we’ll send a…
Daredevil #343, Marvel Comics, August 1995, Artist: August 1995. A show of hands please, who’s still in this trek to 365? Day 343 is the day of the hand, we’ve had fun with hands all year long and today I…
The early 1970s was a magical time for Canadian comic books. After decades of scant output from the mid-1940s through the 1950s, the 1960s was dominated by the giveaway comics produced by Ganes Productions and Comic Page Features/Comic Book World.…
For nearly 30 years, George Herriman’s hilarious, poetic masterpiece Krazy Kat graced the Sunday pages of America’s newspapers. Featuring the love triangle of “kat,” “mice,” and “pupp,” each of Herriman’s pages is a work of transcendent art, crackling with verbal wit and…
Legion of Super-Heroes #342, DC Comics, December 1986, Artist: Steve Lightle. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Steve Lightle put in…
Daredevil #341, Marvel Comics, June 1995, Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Good pep talk from Chris yesterday…
Incredible Hulk #340, Marvel Comics, February 1988. Artist: Todd McFarlane. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Similar to Thor #337 in…
Detective Comics #339, DC Comics, May 1965. Artist: Carmine Infantino. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. I read somewhere Julius Schwarz…
Daredevil #338, Marvel Comics, March 1995. Artist: Bill Sienkiewicz. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. We’re down to 25 covers to…
Thor #337, Marvel Comics, November 1983. Artist: Walter Simonson. A great comic book cover matching each day of the year, 1 through 365. Please chime in with your favourite corresponding cover, from any era. Day 337 gave me at least…
Superman #78, DC Comics, September/October 1952. This week I had a guy walk into the shop with a couple of rat chewed old Superman comics from the early 1950s, these were barely hanging in there condition wise but they’d sell…