Author: Blaise Tassone
Not to be confused with the Green Hornet, in the Golden Age Fox Feature Syndicate Publications (the publisher of comics such as Fantastic Comics, Mystery Men Comics, and Blue Beetle), gave us no less than two versions of a hero called Green Mask. This post focuses on...
Published from 1943-1956 by Prize Publishers, the anthology series known as Headline Comics is another Golden Age treasure. You can own a piece of this treasure. Headline Comics #8 is up for auction with Heritage. Headline Comics was one of the many titles in the history...
Carmine Infantino’s dynamic art is to DC what Jack Kirby’s powerful drawings were to Marvel: trendsetting and unforgettable. Infantino's design work on the Silver Age Flash comic is so iconic, that it still stands as the definitive representation...
Although Wolverine wasn’t created by artist John Byrne or X-Men scribe Chris Claremont, he nonetheless blossomed under their creative guidance. However of the two, it was Byrne who did the most to develop the diminutive Canadian Wild-man. In this post, I’ll explore the best and most...
During the 1950s a comic book series retelling stories form classic literary sources was one of the most popular comics in the world. This series was known as ‘Classics Illustrated’. If you’ve ever bought comic book lots off of eBay or Craigslist you’ve probably gotten an...
When I think of Marvel Comics in the late 1960s and early seventies, I think of one artist more than any other. That artist’s name is John Buscema. Buscema started out as something of a ‘Jack Kirby clone’, more due to the business model of Silver...
The rise in prices for select key Batman/Joker comics after the huge success of the Joker film shows that the comic book movie connection is alive and well. In the case of DC comics, this connection was a double-edged sword until recently. Many of the earlier...
What the devil is up with prices on Shanna #1? Recently a 9.6 sold for over $300.00. In what follows I’ll take a look at the data and try to make sense of the prices for this book and whether or not it’s worth the investment....
Troubled Vietnam vet John Rambo was a 1980s cinematic sensation. Like other famous and iconic 1980s action film franchises, i.e. series like: the Alien movies, the Predator films and the Terminator saga, the Rambo franchise didn’t just remain a box office property. The popularity of the...
The clock is ticking down to the October 20th premiere of the HBO Watchmen series directed and written by Damon Lindelof. With the pedigree acting talents of Academy Award winners Regina King and Jeremy Irons in the lead roles, Watchmen promises to do for the values...
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