Author: Blaise Tassone
I really enjoyed the 2014 film ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ but was a bit disappointed with how the Sentinels were portrayed. These relentless killer robots, originally created by Dr. Bolivar Trask, were far more menacing in the comics. While we await the up-coming FOX X-Men...
On May 10, 2018 Military Comics #1 in CGC certified 9.4 grade sold for $52, 580.00. Who says war comics can’t be valuable? Still, this was a crazy high price for the first appearance of Blackhawk. The 2017 Overstreet Price Guide for 2017-2018, for example, had...
The key appearances of the tyrannical ruler of the planet Apokolips were all the rage during the build up to the DCEU ‘Justice League’ film last year. We all know how that went. After less than stellar reviews and a mixed audience reception, Darkseid ended up...
Tank Girl celebrated its 30th anniversary this October. The genius of the Tank Girl comic lay in its simplicity. Sometimes less is more, and in the case of Tank Girl, featuring stories about a girl (later called Rebecca Buck) who lived in a tank, the minimalist...
This is a good time for Bronze Age comics. Some of the Marvel books from the Bronze Age, including many issues of Spider-man, the X-Men, even She-Hulk, have reached all time high prices. But the Bronze Age explosion has effected more than just Marvel. DC titles...
Few people have heard of the Bruns Publications Inc. hero called Wonder Man. There’s a reason for that. In 1939 Wonder Man was ruled to be a copyright infringement of DC’s Superman by the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals. This was the first...
One of the most astounding progressions from almost utter obscurity to pop culture fandom was achieved when Marvel turned their C-list team, The Guardians of the Galaxy, into a phenomenal success. One very likely reason for the new found love of the team was the smart...
In a previous post published a few months ago, that you can read here, I wrote about collectible covers. As I put it then, many collectors buy and slab comics because the cover is either well drawn or portrays an iconic character/group/event. These books have...
The John Carter stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs (the creator of Tarzan) originally appeared in pulp fiction form in 1912. Later collected into novels they all featured Carter, a veteran solider from Virginia, who was originally transported to Mars via an instance of astral projection. For...
It was with great sadness that I learned that American comic book writer, editor, publisher, film producer and actor Stanley Martin Lieber, better known to millions worldwide as Stan Lee, passed away today at the age of 95. It feels like the end of an era....
