Author: Norman Robinson
One of the funniest reruns back in the 70s was "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein." It was a fun and very campy horror comedy that pits a vaudevillian comedic duo against the classic Victorian monsters we all know and love. It was also during the 70s, that...
The Overstreet Guide holds many hidden treasures, but one of the most interesting is the Top 25 Bronze Age Comics. It is listed on page 193 of the 2020-2021 hardcover print. This year is no different. I review this each year for solid data on the state...
I recently came across a very high-end companion comic to Rai TPB. Rai Companion #1 was the comic and this thing had never been removed from the original bag. Never been opened and by that I mean it was as the publisher printed it. It was bright,...
Nova has had a lot of media attention due to three event possibilities. Has this book gotten too expensive? Is there still an opportunity to fly high with the first comic book profits? What grades are the best to invest in? The character was part of the...
The Copper Age started with one defining event for Marvel Comics. That event was the Secret Wars which at the time was considered groundbreaking for comic storytelling. It received mucho hype and just about everyone into comics at the time read it hoping it would bring the...
Looking at potential comics to avoid is not the most popular thing to write about. However, with a market-wide uptick in collectibles, it is perhaps important to "check ourselves before we wreck ourselves!" This latest headlong rush into collectibles, namely comics; is it...
The Overstreet Guide has been at the pinnacle of price quotations for many years. Perhaps some of this relevance has been superseded by technology but only in real-time. The value of the Overstreet Guide is not just pricing. That is one of many positive elements in this...
Vampirella is storming the ranks of the top 100 most popular Silver Age comic books (GoCollect.com). Recently, her popularity soared sending her book up 365 rankings to the 95th most popular Silver Age book. Who is this beauteous bloodsucker? Is she worthy of cultlike speculation worship or...
These days everybody is downloading apps and searching for the hot-keys, or even future-keys. Where does that leave the non-key comic books? Are they only for collectors and completists to acquire? Do they have value? Is there a trick to sifting through the haystack of non-keys to...
This week the ladies take center stage as the top two, out of three Bronze Age comics headline female superheroes. This is just the beginning of this trend as both She-Hulk and Spider-Woman have a long climb up the popularity ladder. The 70s was a time of...
