Author: Blaise Tassone
Before the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, before the Legion of Superheroes and the Doom Patrol and even before the Justice League of America existed, there was the Justice Society of America. The JSA was the first superhero team in comic book history. First appearing in...
Created by legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, Moira MacTaggart was originally introduced in the rebooted, international, team of the Uncanny X-Men as a Mutant expert residing on Muir Island. As the rebooted X-Men series developed, MacTaggert came to occupy an even more important...
The creator of Swamp Thing and Wolverine (among many others) if it wasn’t for Len Wein modern superhero comics would look very different. Getting his start early on in the comic book industry, Wein worked for both Marvel and DC and his creative vision shaped the...
Introduced in 1950, the comic strip Peanuts has gone on to become an iconic representation of modern America. Featuring Charlie Brown and his friends (including his beagle Snoopy, who has become synonymous with ‘Peanuts’ comics’ as a whole), Charles Schultz’s strip is one of the most...
Now it’s being reported a standalone ‘Moon Knight’ film has been greenlit by Marvel for Phase 5. As of this writing, this is still a rumor – (see here) -so don’t take it as written in stone. That said, when talk has moved from ‘will...
Prices on Special Marvel Edition #15 are surging with no end in sight. The other day, a low grade (3.5 at best judging from the photos) raw copy sold for over $200.00 on eBay. Returns are strong on every single grade. Do you have a copy...
While many Silver Age books are currently maintaining their value, many seemingly having plateaued at quite strong price levels, with Silver now so expensive, the ongoing and potential rise of value on Bronze Age books is worth considering. When it comes to still undervalued Bronze, the...
The other day, I looked at the price spikes on sales of graded copies of The Boys by Garth Ennis. Will these prices be maintained, or will The Boys go the way of Preacher and other titles, which went soft price-wise after similar bumps from live...
[caption id="attachment_13654" align="alignleft" width="443"] Scene from Amazon's 'The Boys'. Left to Right, Jack Quaid as Hughie and Karl Urban as William Butcher[/caption] If you haven’t seen the Amazon produced American adaptation of Garth Ennis’s comic The Boys, then you should. The new show is excellent. What’s especially impressive...
I want to share a secret with you about Indiana Jones comics. This is something you may or may not know. Some Indiana Jones comics are really very good. Others are not that great. That shouldn’t be too surprising since the original ‘Raiders of the Lost...