Author: Blaise Tassone
There are some comics that are forever being talked about as ‘due for a movie’ or ‘going to get a live action show’ only to get stuck in development limbo. But, if you ever needed any more proof that we truly are living in the age...
‘Avengers: Endgame’ made it fairly clear that Tony Stark and Steve Rogers will not be leading the Avengers in upcoming installments. With Tony dead and Steve now older than Moses, it would be quite a challenge to focus any future films on these character's playing a...
If you follow new releases, or keep up with sales of new comics on eBay, you may have run across a title called Naomi. This comic, printed under the DC Wonder Comics imprint, has gained a strong following with individual issues selling out since its debut...
The other day, I blogged about the Five Best DC Vertigo Titles, listing the top five comics in that soon to be defunct label’s history. One reader responded that I’d forgotten about Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets. Well, that would have been my number six choice....
This is the complementary post to my previous entry (here). Whereas in my last post I looked at Marvel characters, and linked the total number of appearances of characters to the prices on their first appearances looking for correlations, here I will take a look...
In this post I’m looking at data about Marvel characters collocated from an electronic database. The goal of this exercise is to list the Marvel characters with the most appearances and compare the number of appearances with the corresponding prices of their key comics. The...
[caption id="attachment_11739" align="alignleft" width="229"] Superman #25, the second most actively sold Golden Age book right now.[/caption] Golden Age comics are increasingly gaining the attention of collectors. Many have realized that there’s a huge untapped potential for these comics as investments; others simply like the Golden Age for the...
Everyone knows the big name books valuable to collectors. For example, if you’re digging through a dollar bin at a comic shop, and you see a copy of Avengers #4, you’d know that it’s probably been put in there by mistake, or else the person running the...
It’s the end of an era as DC has announced plans to shutter its Vertigo publishing line. The Vertigo line was originally launched in 1993 as an outlet for publishing more adult themed (read: less mainstream; more edgy) stories. It quickly became one of the most...
Immortal Hulk is a hit for Marvel because it is a modern comic that does what too many modern comics have stopped doing, or at least stopped doing competently and/or well: it tells a great story. Is this enough to maintain its value and keep returns...
