Author: Blaise Tassone
Marvel is starting to leak news about its newly acquired FOX characters and today two Marvel characters closely related to the Silver Surfer are making waves (see here). The first is the Surfer’s overlord, the force of nature known as Galactus. The second is the...
If you’ve been collecting comics for even a brief period of time you’ve no doubt heard the term “key”. For example: “Giant Size X-Men #1 is a major key” or “Incredible Hulk #181 is the most important Bronze Age key comic”, etc. Maybe you’ve heard this...
Centaur Comics (or Centaur Publications) was founded in 1938 and lasted until 1942. It was one of the earliest publishers of American comic books with titles that are highly sought out today due to both scarcity and for historical reasons. In this post, I’ll look at...
How is it possible, with so many DCEU movies already made, there has been no appearance of Darkseid yet? Strange as it sounds, we’ve gotten teased about upcoming Darkseid appearances and then disappointed time and again. That may soon change, but will the eventual appearance of...
Books like Incredible Hulk #181, Marvel Special Edition #15 and now Tomb of Dracula #10 have reached all-time record sale prices. It seems that the high sales prices once accruing for many Marvel Silver Age books are finally starting to transfer over to their Bronze Age cousins....
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”? Frank Herbert, Dune (1965) The Dune novels are masterpieces of science fantasy. Take the Lord of the Rings,...
A few weeks ago, based on the purchase of Atlas comics rights by Paramount; back issues of many of the old Atlas titles spiked to unseen levels. This event highlights one of the unintended but welcomed perks that has emerged with the increasing pop...
As we all come down from the high of the just ended 'San Diego Comic Con', it’s time to put things back into focus and separate the speculative wheat from the possibly over-hyped chaff. At the moment, as everybody buys up copies of Jane Foster/Lady Thor...
Comic book websites and YouTube channels have been exploding with opinions about Marvel’s upcoming projects after the San Diego announcements made by Kevin Feige. Something that was immediately noticed is how the upcoming phase (number 4 of the MCU) seems to be taking a 'smaller is...
Although the US has contributed immensely to the comic book medium, there are many fine comics from other countries. Have you ever heard of Asterix? Le Transperceneige? Diabolik? What do all these comics have in common? They’re not American or originally produced in English speaking countries....