Author: Blaise Tassone
In the Bronze Age, Marvel was growing with its readers. By the late 1970s, there were plenty of mature and serious themes portrayed within the pages of Marvel's many monthly titles. Then, in 1977 and in a seeming attempt to recapture a younger audience (primarily male,...
Marvel published some stellar non-super-hero anthology titles during the Bronze Age. In the early seventies, the company excelled especially in their production of horror and sci-fi/fantasy titles. Many of these books fly under the radar today, but demand for these classics, as reflected in prices, has...
We’ve known since 2014 that Dwayne Johnson’s been cast to play the anti-Captain Marvel: Black Adam. If ‘Shazam!’ is successful, it will serve as a great promotional opportunity for the upcoming 'Black Adam' film. The catch, of course, is that Black Adam isn't the main villain...
This month a relaunch of DC’s Young Justice title, penned by Brian Michael Bendis, captured the attention of the comic buying public. At the same time, speculation about the turnover in actors depicting our favorite Marvel heroes, led to strong sales on Marvel’s 2005 Young Avengers...
While many have heard of the cult favorite 1990s TV show ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ even fans of the original series and movie may have a hard time when it comes to distinguishing between the many comic book offshoots based on the show. With both the...
The DCEU isn’t slowing down. After the success of ‘Aquaman’, news leaked the other day that Ava DuVernay (‘A Wrinkle In Time’) who has been hired to direct a ‘New Gods’ movie currently in development, will most likely feature the following characters from Jack Kirby’s 'Fourth...
If you keep up with price trends on first appearances of villains, there’s a common pattern with these books. They tend to spike hard when the foe in question is featured in a movie and then plummet down in value just as quickly after their time...
In recent years there’s been something of a renaissance regarding the collectability of Silver and Bronze age cover art. After a long period during which cover art from this period was, more or less, ignored, a new found interest in these covers can be attested to...
Although it seems that they were given a chance and failed (let’s face it, to say that the ‘Inhumans’ TV show was not exactly a big hit is an understatement - even if it had a few fans), a curious situation now surrounds the Inhumans key...
A number of readers have written with queries regarding my blog post of January 3, 2019, entitled “Predicting Demand Using CGC Data” (see here). Reader feedback is always appreciated. In the spirit of sharing insights that can, hopefully, benefit all collectors, I’d like to reply...
