Author: Blaise Tassone
In about a month and a half (on July 16, 2019), the new official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (2019-2020) will be released. The Overstreet Price Guide [OCPG], currently on its 49th Volume, was at one time an indispensable tool for the comic collecting hobby. The...
With yet another new Godzilla film out, albeit receiving mixed critical reviews, the old Marvel Godzilla comics seem to have also received a boost. Is it time to send your copies of Godzilla: King of the Monsters #1 to CGC? Are there other Godzilla key comics...
Not so long ago, except by the standards of our frenetic and rabid news/gossip cycle, Annihilius was the character to spec on. Annihilus would make an MCU appearance at the end of Avengers 4! Annihilus will replace Thanos as the big bad for Phase 4! Except,...
The theme of this post is atomic bomb explosion scenes on comic book covers [see Atomic Comics (Part I)]. My focus is on Golden Age titles, and in this continuation I'll take a look at some cold war covers. The end of World War II...
Has it really been seven years since a standalone Batman movie? That feels like forever. Sure we’ve had ‘Batfleck’ appear in several underwhelming DCEU Zack Snyder summer films, but given the stature of this character, I can’t help but think that, if it hits the right...
The Atomic age began on July 16, 1945. On that date, as a result of the wartime Manhattan Project, the first nuclear bomb was detonated at the Trinity nuclear test site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Nothing would be the same after that…not even comics. 1945...
American comic book illustrator Walter Simonson has been active in the medium since the early 1970s and has contributed illustrations to titles as popular as X-Factor, The Fantastic Four, Detective Comics and others. However, Simonson is best known for his four year run on Marvel’s The...
Most villains simply act as foils in both the comics and the comic based movies. A villain in a film, as in a comic script, is usually a one and done affair. The trick to speculating about villain centered books, therefore, is getting ahead of the...
The height of popularity for crime comics was the mid-twentieth century, from around 1948 till circa 1954. These dates correspond to the Golden Age period of comic book collecting and it’s no surprise that the peak of the Golden Age saw a rise in popularity of...
‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Endgame’ were both successful adaptations of the 1990s Marvel crossover event The Infinity Gauntlet. After Endgame and the opening up of the multiverse, as well as the introduction of a general shake-up in the whole MCU, this allows us to speculate about...
