Author: Blaise Tassone
Most of us have seen ‘Back to the Future’, and can remember Marty McFly’s incredulity when he visits the 1950s version of his home town. If you could jump onto Doc Brown’s time travelling Delorean and travel back in time to January of...
A simple principle for finding valuable comics, and not spending a fortune to own them, is to buy before they rise in value. Using that principle as my heuristic device, in this post I take a look at four comics you can find today for $20.00...
Created by Doug Moench and Tom Mandrake, the mobster villain known as the Black Mask made his first appearance in Batman #386 (August 1985). We now know he will be portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the upcoming film ‘Birds of Prey’ due out in February. How...
We live in a data driven society and are all influenced by the so-called ‘information economy’. One way to understand this often cited fact is to read it as implying that we have access to more data today than any single person can adequately process. With...
Turok’s is a name you may have heard of, which is likely as he’s been around since 1954. Believe it or not, Turok still has fans today and those fans are willing to pay premium dollars for back issues of their primitive hero. Although some...
If Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and John Carter had a baby, that baby would be Adam Strange. Created by legendary comic writer Gardner Fox, with help by artist extraordinaire Carmen Infantino and former Buck Rogers artist Murphy Anderson on inking duties, the original Adam Strange stories...
If you’re a fan of the paranormal, the 1980s and live action shows that wear their comic book influences on their sleeves, then you’ll probably enjoy the Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’. Currently on its third season, this fan favorite show has spawned several comic book spin...
The journey is over. This month's Walking Dead #193 ended up being the final issue of the long running Zombie/horror series, and so we are left to ponder the aftermath that the conclusion of the saga will have on the Robert Kirkman comic. How will...
Watching the ongoing price rise on Marvel Special Edition #15, after the Shang-Chi film was announced for Phase 4 of the MCU back in December, has at this point become an almost vertiginous experience. However, if the recent price surges on MSE #15 have made you...
With the 4th of July quickly approaching, and the strongest presence of superhero influence on pop culture since the Golden Age upon us, in this post I look at a forgotten Golden Age title that can be viewed as a virtual anatomy lesson for the superhero...
