Author: Blaise Tassone
Valentine’s Day is yet again upon us and as lovers prepare the exchange of gifts and make appointments to spend time together, I want to spend some time looking at a long neglected genre of comics: the Romance genre. You’ll see copies of Romance comics...
If you’re a fan of Silver Age DC, you've probably read one or two stories featuring this team of future based super-powered colleagues known as the Legion of Super-Heroes. Debuting in Adventure Comics in 1958, from the very beginning the Legion where a fun and exciting...
We’re all aware of how sales of certain comics stray very far from expected fair market prices. Certain books will occasionally sell either for extremely more or far less than expected. When this happens, it can give pause to a collector, perhaps causing them to re-evaluate...
I’ve blogged about Ms. Marvel and She Hulk but there’s another Marvel female heroine whose key comics have been gradually appreciating in value. In many ways, this character is just as much an established fixture of the Marvel universe, even if she currently gets less attention...
Ever since the Marvel cinematic universe introduced Rhomann Dey, played by John C. Reilly in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ (2014), many dedicated Marvel readers have been waiting for Nova to appear onscreen. Gradually, throughout 2018, sales on the first issue of the stand-alone Nova comic book...
‘[T]he lone survivor of an alien world, a nameless man of somber, impassive visage, garbed utterly inappropriately in garish blue and red…’ The opening quote from the banner blurb that, after its first, would introduce each subsequent issue of the short-lived (1975-1977) Marvel comic series Omega...
Golden Age comics are starting to receive some serious attention again. Many collectors are realizing that they make very good long term investments. Many have also noted how Golden Age comics regularly sell in auctions for far above Overstreet guide prices. Unfortunately a lot of stories...
Although it may be hard to believe, the bestselling comic book of all time is X-Men v2 #1 by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee. Released in the summer of 1991, X-Men #1 was an offshoot of Claremont's super-successful Uncanny X-Men run started in the late 1970s....
This is the second in my two part look at sleeper key comics. Given how fond collectors and speculators are of having the next big key issue, you’d think that all the notable keys are already known and out there selling for premium prices. That assumption,...
In this post, I’m going to take a look at comics that can be considered key issues but are not as well-known as they should be. Hence: ‘sleepers’. Here, I’ll explore three Marvel sleeper keys and say something about why I think they're worth seeking out....
