Author: Norman Robinson
It was a time of turmoil, a time of greed, a time of comic books, a time of need. It was the 1990s. Speculators were everywhere, including many in the comic book market. They had hoarded tons of New Mutants, Brigade, X-Factor, and X-men...
I like to think of comic books as the bumper cars of collectibles. My theory is that comic books as investments are very connected and often "bump" one another up in price. What has the average year-to-date return trend been for comic books affected by the bumper...
This book is simply blowing up. The Giant-Size X-Men #1 has multiple appearances of X-Men: Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird, and second appearance of Wolverine, first Wolverine in X-Men team by the book. This is technically Wolverine's third appearance after his first appearance in...
I thought I had seen it all until I stumbled across the most ludicrous thing I have seen in the comic book world. Boy have I looked at a ton of trashy comics, from soft porn to ridiculous homage,...
The most overly printed comic book of all time was the X-Men #1 from 1991. This book has multiple prints and total published copies of 8.2 million (source: Wiki). "This is the single best-selling American (single issue) comic of all time." One of the...
On October 10, 1974, a new type of superhero emerged from Marvel. He fit the times he was created in. He was rough, brutal, pragmatic, and unforgiving. In addition, he had a berserker rage, indestructible skeletal structure, and a healing factor that...
After you have been collecting for a bit, you realize certain keys and sub-keys tend to hold value over time. A key can be first appearance, second appearance, death, new power used, team-ups and crossovers, cameos, and of course origin stories. Is the origin...
The first appearance of Spider-Man was one of the earliest superheroes with normal issues, school, work, girlfriends, bills, and family problems. These were things that Stan Lee wanted to write about: superheroes with human problems. Spidey was basically a normal guy with the radioactive powers of...
At the forefront of the Silver Age was Marvel Comics with their first team of superheroes: The Fantastic Four. Their names were quaint. Mr. Fantastic, the Human Torch, Invisible Girl, and The Thing. They fought and won battles against the Mole Man,...
The last year has been a crazy year. Obviously, the COVID-19 Pandemic has been a blight socially and economically throughout the country. During this trying time, an unlikely event happened in 2020: There was a boom in comic book sales like never before. Apparently,...
