Author: Blaise Tassone
The sale of a series of Frazetta oil paintings, first ‘Death Dealer 6’, for an impressive $1.79 million dollars, followed by ‘Egyptian Queen’ recently selling for a staggering, and world record breaking, 5.4 million dollar price tag (see here and here) – only solidifies...
There’s great anticipation for James Gunn’s take on the DC ‘Suicide Squad’ project. While it is still unclear if Gunn’s movie will be a sequel or a total reboot and relaunch of 'Suicide Squad', we do know a few things about the cast and the villains...
A complaint I regularly hear from readers and other collectors is how they’ve always wanted a particular book, their Holy Grail book, but it’s out of reach. This may be because they didn’t buy it at the right time and it’s since gone ‘out of control’...
With the third season of 'Jessica Jones' about to drop (the trailer can be viewed here), will the Netflix version of Patsy (portrayed by Australian actress Rachael Taylor) finally become Hellcat? A better question would be, does it even matter? It’s not exactly news that...
There’s a simple rule I often mention, and also try to use when picking comics to invest in for long term profit. That rule is based on an application of the classic investment advice: buy low, sell high. In other words, look for books that have...
Reviews for ‘X-Men: Dark Phoenix’ are in and [oh my!] I thought they would be bad (see Phoenix Down and Up), but they’re worse than I predicted. What will this development do for your well-known X-Men ‘Phoenix’ keys?
This post continues the content of risqué covers begun for my entry the previous day (Risqué Covers from Yesteryear). There I was looking at Golden Age covers that pushed the limits of good taste and featured risqué themes. In this post, controversial superhero covers. ...
Apparently, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s the High Evolutionary who is behind the creation of Rocket the Racoon. In the comics, the High Evolutionary actually creates important Marvel monsters, like the New Men, and heroes, like Spider-woman. The implied connection to Rocket, however, increases the...
A pronounced collecting niche, especially among collectors of Golden Age era comics, is the risqué cover. Scantily clad women, bondage scenes and other salacious themes and situations depicted in comics, often tend to draw premium prices at auctions and on fixed price sales. What famous artists...
We’ve known since January that Ava DuVernay (‘A Wrinkle In Time’) has been given the reins to direct a DC ‘New Gods’ movie - currently in production. The latest news from the grapevine is that Tom King (Batman, Heroes in Crisis) has been selected to write...
