Author: James Jou

by James Jou | September 12, 2020

Outside of Moon Knight being his own worst enemy, which of his other greatest foes should we start looking at for possible speculation? Here we look at part 1 of Moon Knight’s impressive rogues’ gallery.    

by James Jou | September 11, 2020

Without retreading too much of the usual market behavior surrounding movie based speculation typically centered around character reveals, trailers, and the theatrical release… it’s almost like clockwork until that clock breaks down. What happens when that final stretch is prolonged? Not just prolonged, but worse, an indefinite...

by James Jou | September 2, 2020

Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big, black bat? When the new Batman movie drops next year, a new iteration of the Riddler will be etched into the eyes of the world. And with that, much like the key comic books of the...

by James Jou | August 15, 2020

Here, we take it all the way back to the original super strengthed hero… Hercules. While the ancient Greek myths have all been written, Hercules continues to live on in the pages of Marvel comic books. Let’s look at three different Hercules comic books at three very...

by James Jou | August 5, 2020

In an attempt to not the hit the Secret Wars speculation dead horse over and over again, here we will look beyond the Beyonder’s key first appearance comic book of Secret Wars #1 and more towards some of the other possible players.     MOLECULE...

by James Jou | July 31, 2020

Today we look at three different Vulture comic books at three very different price points for collectors flying at different heights.     $ - Affordable At the lower end of the Vulture market...

by James Jou | July 10, 2020

Like walking in a Brookstone and your eyes just wander all over the place, there are now more variants of Modern comics than ever all fighting for our limited attention and pocketbooks. Here we will weed through that and feature a few that are rising in popularity....

by James Jou | July 2, 2020

Traditionally, negative space is the areas around the subjects/focal points of an image. Beyond that, it can be used creatively as part of the main subject, and engage the viewers’ imagination to fill in the blank. This technique is most prevalent the work of illustrator Coles Phillips...

by James Jou | June 9, 2020

Outside of the usual speculation avenues of TV/movie rumors, 1st appearances, #1s, cover arts, etc, here we will look directly at the market numbers. In a previous article, while analyzing the market data for Giant-Size Spider-Man books, we came upon the odd occurrence of Giant-Size Spider-Man #1’s...

by James Jou | May 27, 2020

Not to leave Spider-Man out of the prior Giant-Size article, here the webslinger’s most popular Giant-Size books get their own feature.     GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #1 (1974) The market...