Undervalued Spotlight #8
The Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 1960s brought the Cold War with the Soviet Union to America’s kitchen tables and its workplace water coolers. Everyone was now talking about the Russians
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Lethargic Lad #114.3
Read MoreLethargic Lad #114.3Noir and Beyond: The Darwyn Cooke artshow
This weekend, the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, Ontario played host to Darwyn Cooke and his fabulous artwork as they put on an art show entitled Darwyn Cooke: Noir and Beyond and the ComicBookDaily crew stopped on by to admire the…
The Cool Kid From the original Bad News Bears vs. Green Lantern (Possibly)
While in my heart of hearts they’ll dig up Vincent Price and reanimate his body to play Sinestro, Chud.com and Ain’t It Cool News are both reporting that Green Lantern’s mentor/arch enemy will be played by Rorschach aka Jackie Earl…
Crazy Comic Cover: Lois Lane #106 “I AM CURIOUS (BLACK)!”
The Cover: I am sure all of you readers have probably seen this cover many times before and had the same reaction. What the hell? Lois Lane steps into a body moulder that turns her into a black woman! The…
Auction Highlights #7 – Super Key – Not So Super Grade
In honor of this past Wednesday’s Collecting and Investing Tips #7 (where we looked at how to spot restoration on lower grade comics) this week’s auction highlights will look at the hottest of the hot – with a catch. There is nothing…
Just A Thought: European Comics
Just a Thought is a weekly column where writer Brent Chittenden muses about comic book news, views and opinions. Brent’s views and opinions are not necessarily those of Comic Book Daily, it’s editors, writers or staff. Well no sooner had…
Creator Interview: Ramon Perez
Welcome back, dear readers! Welcome to another edition of the Comic Book Daily Creator Profiles where we interview the artists and writers of our favourite medium! With us today happens to be Ramon Perez. We talk about breaking into the…
Today(ish) in Twitter – October 14th, 2009
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Comic Culture: October 14, 2009
Welcome back to the Comic Culture podcast with Mohawk College’s Christopher Owen and Big B’s Walter Durajlija. We hope that you’re comfy as the guys talk about: this week’s releases, new graphic novels hitting the bestseller’s list, the adaptation of C…
Collecting and Investing Tips #7
Watching out for restoration The first thing I’d like to say is that restoration has its place in the comic book marketplace. Some copies of very, very important comic books would not even exist if it were not for the…
Shipping this Week: October 14th, 2009
Every Tuesday Pete and Dave sift through the Diamond Comics shipping list and pick out our favourites. It’s always a good time. Check back often as they update pretty sporadically as stuff pops into their heads. BPRD 1947 #4 (OF…
Noir and Beyond: a Darwyn Cooke Exhibit
Chances are you’re pretty familiar with Darwyn Cooke. He’s arguably one of the most critically and commercially succesful artists working in the industry today. His recently(ish) released adaptation of Richard Stark’s The Hunter was one of the best selling books…
Rest In Peace Joe Rosen
Todd Klein reported today that long time letter Joe Rosen passed away. Rosen had lettered everything from Captain America, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, and X-Factor. He was one of the original letterers from The…
Super Secret Trailer for Marvel’s The Siege
It’s pretty cool what you can find on YouTube these days. According to the person who posted it, it is “Marvel’s Secret trailer that was shown to us at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore tonight.” Not sure how long…
Breaking News: Blackest Night Brings Back Titles From Cancellation!
It looks like DC has some plans up their sleeve to keep us occupied during the lonely month of January. It seems that Blackest Night will skip January and instead there will be some other book that will tide us over..…
DC announces Plans for a Wednesday Comics Collection
Contrary to what David thought of Wednesday Comics, most people did enjoy the effort. It was fun and different and gave us some really great comics (Seriously, Kyle Baker’s Hawkman was amazing, Paul Pope’s Adam Strange was totally gorgeous and…
Lethargic Lad #114.2
Read MoreLethargic Lad #114.2Today(ish) in Twitter – October 12th, 2009 (Canuck Thanksgiving Edition)
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Logicomix debuts at #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List
Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth, a Greek comic book biography on the life of philosopher Bertrand Russell is currently No 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List – Paperback Graphic Novels (putting it ahead of Watchmen, Long Halloween,…
Undervalued Spotlight #7
The War Comics genre was an industry unto itself in the 1950s and 60s. Every major comic publisher had war titles. Charlton, Atlas, Fawcett, Dell and all the others drew heavily on the great adventure stories that could be set against the very recently won Second World War